It involved some rather warmish medieval dialogue, I recall, racy of the days when they called a spade a spade, and by the time the whistle blew, I'll bet no Daughter of the Clergy was half as distressed as I was.

Headlam's Oxford (Medieval Towns Series).

The story of Gawayne and the Green Knight, "the jewel of English medieval literature," tells how Sir Gawayne, Arthur's favorite, fought with a giant called the Green Knight.

The term "Gothic" had been contemptuously applied to whatever was medieval or out of date, whether in architecture, literature, or any form of art.

Beowulf, the medieval romances, the Canterbury Tales, and the ballads relate stories in verse.

In spite of an increasing tendency to picture the life of the time, Elizabethan prose fiction did not entirely discard the matter and style of the medieval romances.

The very size of the factory made such a social change inevitable, the personal relation which marked medieval industry was no longer possible.

It used to be imagined of the unhappy medieval Jews that they parodied Calvary by crucifying dogs; if they had been guilty they would at least have had the excuse of the hatred and rage begotten by persecution.

I have known him, indeed, insist at some expense of erudition on the prior right of an ancient, a medieval, or an eighteenth century writer to be credited with a view or statement lately advanced with some show of originality; and this championship seems to imply a nicety of conscience towards the dead.

Owing to the steepness of the roads, a crupper is considered necessary and is usually decorated with a broad, embossed panel, from which hang little trappings reminiscent of medieval harness.

In these dark ages, resembling those of European medieval times which followed the Germanic migrations and the fall of the Roman Empire, Peru was split up into a large number of small independent units.

These internal troubles were not, however, generally known to the outside world, but the unfaltering searchlight of the records falls upon such great folk as Peter de Mauley, fifth Baron Mulgrave, whose castle at Mulgrave, near Whitby, is mentioned elsewhere; Lucy de Thweng, wife of Sir William le Latimer; Sir Nicholas de Meynyl; and Katherine, wife of Sir John Dentorp, whose conduct merely reflected the morals of medieval times.

He felt his inmost secrets plucked from himhis whole soul laid barehis vanity, belligerency, gallantryeven his medieval chivalry, penetrated, and yet illuminated, in that single glance.

And remember always, if we feel thus even now, how much more must those medieval men of genius have felt thus, whose work we now dare only copy line by line?

The medieval architects were crippled to the last by the tradition of artificial Roman forms.

Do you not know that in the medieval church the vistas of its arcades, the alternation of its lights and shadows, the gradations of its colouring, and all its carefully subordinated wealth of art, pointed to, were concentrated round, one sacred spot, as a curve, however vast its sweep through space, tends at every moment toward a single focus?

We should also notice precisely how the tendency of British literature toward originalityin which the insular peculiarities were strongly emphasizedserved to increase the self-reliance of German literature; how a new movement in the style of the antique was cultivated by the classical writers; and how the Romantic School favored medieval-Christian tendenciesmuch to Goethe's annoyance.

Perhaps the best literary achievement of these years is the fine hexameter version of the medieval Reynard the Fox.

R90806, 15Feb52, Clara Whips Dunn (A) & George Murray Brown (A) PIRENNE, HENRI. Medieval cities; translated from the French by Frank D. Halsey.

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS Medieval cities.

Medieval and modern times.

The truth about Galileo and medieval science.

Medieval studies in memory of A. Kingsley Porter.

Altho the movement for the repeal of medieval laws has continued in Europe from 1776 till the present time, yet custom still is stronger to-day in Europe than in America.

I, p. 143, on medieval land tenures; p. 158, on customary rents; p. 190, on the effect of caste.