What had become of them, of this great bulk of the population of western Europe that, with the feudal aristocracy, the knighthood and the monks had made Mediaevalism?

Under mediaevalism chattel slavery had disappeared, and the lot of the peasant was a happier one than he had known before.

In point of fact, therefore, we are bound to trace back the responsibility for the present crisis even to the Reformation itself, as well as to the tyranny and absolutism of government, and the sordid and profligate ordering of society, which followed on the end of Mediaevalism.

It may be that I do them an injustice, and that they would offer as excuse the incontestible fact that Mediaevalism contributed nothing to "modern civilization," either in religion or philosophy, that it was willing to accept.

Work was not easy, on the contrary it was very hard throughout the Dark Ages and Mediaevalism, but there is no particular merit in easy work.

" As Mediaevalism gave place to the Renaissance this Christian idea was abandoned, and increasingly the obligation was severed from the right, which so became that odious thing, privilege.

This is the case with the Greek states, with the Roman Republic and the Empire, with Byzantium, with Mediaevalism, and with our modern era.

This iron mountain is an illustration of the mixture of mediaevalism and modernism to be found in Russia's industrial development.

Even at the present day the Oriental is swathed in mediaevalism.

The quick and vivid intellect of Italy, which had been torpid in the decadence of mediaevalism and its mysticism and piety, seized with avidity the revelation of the classical world which the scholars and their manuscripts brought.

It is a paradox worth noting for its strangeness that the first revival of mediaevalism in modern English literature was in the Renaissance itself.

Both draw the knowledge which is the main cause of their obscurity from the same source, the bypaths of mediaevalism.

The ignorance of mediaevalism was in the habit of crediting Vergil with the construction of the Roman aqueducts and temples whose ruins are scattered over Europe.

It is a mistake to suppose that the passion for mediaevalism began with either Coleridge or Scott.

Very remote from them on the other hand is the backward-gazing mediaevalism of Rossetti and his circle, who revived (Rossetti from Italian sources, Morris from Norman) a Middle age which neither Scott nor Coleridge had more than partially and brokenly understood.

It is the dome that makes S. Peter's what it isthe adequate symbol of the Church in an age that had abandoned mediaevalism and produced a new type of civility for the modern nations.

Another class of ideas, no less illustrative of mediaevalism, can be studied in the Palazzo Pubblico at Siena.

It does not as a rule amount to more than a rather clumsy mockery of mediaevalism, but the verses prefixed to the Lay of St. Gengulphus are really rather like a fragment of a black-letter ballad.

Still, for the moment it was a great victory, a crushing blow to Oxford, the stronghold of mediaevalism, incompetence and Hanoverianism, and an immense relief to the sorely-tried physique of the nation.