Sentence examples for medieval epic from inspiring English sources
As W.P. Ker, a pioneer in the study of medieval epic and romance, observed in his Epic and Romance (1897), the advent of romance is "something as momentous and as far-reaching as that to which the name Renaissance is generally applied".
Someone out of a medieval epic.
But few people took Hero - a fifth-century medieval epic, made 25 years ago - seriously.
The defense of Farsi against Arabic took the form of a medieval epic, "Shahnameh," by the poet Ferdowsi.
The oliphant, an end-blown horn made from an elephant tusk, is prominently mentioned in the medieval epic The Song of Roland.
Dante wears a trench coat, a fedora, sunglasses, and a pipe, looking more like a protagonist out of a Raymond Chandler novel than a medieval epic.
As in medieval epics, the characters were the strongly stylized heroes or demigods of legend.
"Tolkien refashioned the old medieval epics into what we now call fantasy literature," Ms. Chance said.
Sevruguin himself spoke five languages and could recite at length in Farsi from Persia's medieval epics.
The Pregnant Widow reminds you of those medieval epics in which the hero, Troilus, or whoever, observes from a heavenly vantage, free from earthly care, his teenage self tortured and dying for love, and permits himself more than a wry smile.
Appearing in stories from the medieval epics of King Arthur and his knights to the silver-screen exploits of Indiana Jones, the Holy Grail has remained one of humanity's most sought-after treasures, a mysterious relic that straddles the line between fantasy and reality.
