Sentence examples for medieval folklore from inspiring English sources

He and his contemporaries mix medieval folklore with the new classical ideas coming out of Italy to create bizarrely compelling masterpieces.

Scientists believe that sleep paralysis may be behind many of the medieval folklore narratives describing vampires and ghosts terrorizing villages at night, before suddenly vanishing into the ether.

The term cuckold itself is incredibly common in medieval folklore, literature and iconography, including a 1250 satirical poem "The Owl and the Nightingale", Shakespeare's poetry and Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale".

"Star Wars" is structured around the medieval "Dragon Prince" folklore plot.

The Novgorod region of Russia is a sparsely populated area about the size of Ireland better known for its medieval archaeology and folklore than for anything else.

In rural areas medieval Spanish music, art, folklore, and social customs also have been preserved.

Numerous examples from medieval Spanish literature and folklore echoed the same themes (e.g., Juan Manuel's Count Lucanor and Juan Ruiz's Book of Good Love).

Werewolves emerged in folklore in medieval Germany at times when a poor harvest meant that both humans and animals were contending with rumbling stomachs.

Events unfold very much as they were recounted by the first collectors of Norse folklore, in medieval Icelandic texts known as the "Elder" and "Younger" Edda.

Ivan Shishman is the most prominent medieval ruler in Bulgarian folklore.

But most of all, he is able to bring into his discussion a solid familiarity with the folklore of the medieval and postmedieval age -- a bygone era that, as he carefully demonstrates, is not exactly bygone.