单词 | the middle ages |
释义 | > as lemmasthe Middle Ages 2. the Middle Ages (also (now rare) the Middle Age): the period in European history between ancient and modern times, now usually taken as extending from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West (c500) to the fall of Constantinople (1453) or the beginning of the Renaissance (14th cent.); the medieval period; esp. the later part of this period, after 1000 (also figurative). Cf. dark ages n..At different times and by different writers the beginning of the period has been variously placed between 300 and 900. For the scope of the term, as well its history, see G. Gordon ‘Medium Aevum and the Middle Age’, S.P.E. Tract xix (1925). ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > the Middle Ages the Middle Ages1605 dark ages1656 mid-age1845 moyen-age1849 α. β. 1616 H. Spelman De non temerandis Ecclesiis (new ed.) 194 Great Clarks of our owne Church..reciteth some-what more briefly the former interpretations..as truly consonant to the tenor of the Psalme... But thus the eldest and newest expositors are wholly for mee, many also (& of the best of them) of the middle ages, none that I know against me.1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (new ed.) 108 It would have been some satisfaction to have seen by the Pictures, what the middle Ages, at least, had thought of them [sc. animals].1722 Mem. Literature VI. 296 Mr. Juncker,..has published in the German Language an Excellent Introduction to the Geography of the middle Ages.1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. x. 245 During the middle ages, (from the ninth to the twelfth century) whilst Christianity was advancing with a slow progress into the North.1819 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages (ed. 2) III. i. ix. 304 The Middle Ages, according to the division I have adopted, comprize about one thousand years, from the invasion of France by Clovis [c490] to that of Naples by Charles VIII [1494].1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 741/1 Middle ages,..the centuries between the ninth or tenth and the end of the fifteenth after Christ are generally comprehended under this loose denomination.1887 J. C. Morison Service of Man 177 The great hollow which is roughly called the Middle Ages, extending from the fifth to the fifteenth century.1924 Amer. Mercury Dec. 403/2 During the greater part of the Middle Ages the ordeal, trial by battle and compurgation were the most widely used devices for ascertaining the guilt of the accused.1971 D. Crystal Linguistics 102 In the ‘middle ages’ of linguistics (the forties and fifties) this approach was..widespread.1993 BBC Music Mag. Apr. 49/1 Although vocal music in two or more parts (polyphony) flourished during the late Middle Ages, chant (monophony) remained the staple fare.1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. iii. 204/1 The primitiue tyme of the church,..the middle age, and..these our latter dayes of the church.] 1605 W. Camden Certaine Poems in Remaines of Greater Worke 2 I will onely giue you a taste of some of midle age, which was so ouercast with darke clouds, or rather thicke fogges of ignorance. 1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. sig. ¶4 After the reuiuing and repolishing of good Literature, (which the combustions and tumults of the middle Age had vnciuillized). a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) I. 303 It is a perplex't question in the School, (and truly the Balance in those of the middle age, very even) whether if Adam had not sinned, the son of God had come into the world, and taken our nature and our flesh upon him. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Age Middle Age denotes the space of time commencing from Constantine, and ending at the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, in the fifteenth century. a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) i. 1 Addr. to..E. Hooper,..An Essay on the Taste and Literature of the Middle Age. 1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Virgula, the name of one of the ten notes used in the middle ages. 1834 K. H. Digby Mores Catholici V. v. 115 We have seen the importance ascribed to music generally by the great philosophers of the middle age. 1882 J. C. Morison Macaulay 70 His acquaintance with the Middle Age generally, may without injustice be pronounced slight. 1925 S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XIX. 15 The Middle Age, as a working historical division, was only about the middle of the seventeenth century beginning to be recognized in educational routine. 1944 H. A. Hodges Wilhelm Dilthey 110 At the close of the Middle Age the emancipation of the special sciences began. < as lemmas |
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