Sentence examples for medieval academic from inspiring English sources

These changes might have also been caused by the growing self-consciousness and sense of individuality historians have noticed in other aspects of medieval academic and social life.

Causality plays an important role in medieval philosophical writing: the dominant genre of medieval academic writing was the commentary on an authoritative work, very often a work of Aristotle.

After Aristotle's texts had been assimilated, almost all medieval academic theories had an ontology which was basically hylomorphic: substances were composites of matter and form, and change was described as the loss of one form and the acquisition of another.

First, he appears to have spent his entire career in the faculty of arts, without moving on to study for a doctoral degree in one of the more prestigious faculties of law, medicine, or theology the more typical career path of a medieval academic.

Within the extended Chadderton/Chaderton family, two ecclesiastically notable persons were William Chaderton (medieval academic and bishop) and Laurence Chaderton (the first Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, a leading Puritan and one of the original translators of the Authorised King James Version of the Bible).

New research into the work patterns of medieval masons by academics at the University of Warwick could spell an end to the leaflet-grappling, component-finding problem of furniture assembly.

Later one can identify a distinction between practical and professional knowledge on the one hand -- which was learned through the system of apprenticeships and was legitimized by the medieval guilds -- and academic knowledge that was legitimized by the universities on the other.

On her mother's advice, she opted for a medieval history course, then switched academic gears.

Eco also maintained a parallel journalistic and literary career, and The Name of the Rose (1980) was his first novel, building on his academic interest in medieval aesthetics.

Ashton B. Carter, who built upon academic specialties in medieval history and theoretical physics to become the Pentagon's top expert on budgets and weapons, announced Thursday that he was retiring as deputy defense secretary.

Now in its sixth year, with exterior walls and one tower well under way, Guédelon has become a living laboratory in which academic hypotheses about medieval building techniques can be tested.