Sentence examples for medieval pattern from inspiring English sources

Estates were exploited by subsistence tenants on a standard medieval pattern.

Although opposed to modern constitutionalism, he aspired to create Estates of the Realm on a medieval pattern.

The arrangement of this work, written in pictorial language as well as in Spanish, followed the familiar medieval pattern and resembled most closely that of Bartholomaeus Anglicus (Sahagún may have been familiar with a recent translation of Bartholomaeus's encyclopaedia).

While Georgian and Classical evidence makes the contemporaneous Kartlian links with the Seleucids plausible (Toumanoff has even implied that the kings of Kartli might have aided the Seleucids in holding the resurgent Orontids of Armenia in check ), Pharnavaz's alleged reform of the eristavi fiefdoms is most likely a back-projection of the medieval pattern of subdivision to the remote past.

Adhering more often to medieval patterns of thought, he was nevertheless open to new ideas, enthusiastic about promoting science as well as the arts.

She teaches rabbinic literature and medieval patterns of Jewish thought, as well as the broader question of continuity and change in Jewish history.

Its beginning in 1690s connects it with the older medieval patterns, while its end at the hand of the British armies in 1818 marks an important transition to colonialism.

Yes, Clerkenwell is a historic area, but its fascination is in its multiple layers of time, its Victorian and Georgian buildings laid over medieval patterns, its history of light industry over religious institutions, its philanthropic schools and housing built to replace slums.

"We see this staircase as part of the medieval street pattern," says O'Donnell.

Property owners soon asserted their rights and began building again on plots along the lines of the previous medieval street pattern.

Its medieval street pattern and some old walls remain, as does the Koppelpoort (a water gate dating from about 1400 and spanning the Eem).