Sentence examples for medieval system from inspiring English sources

As for the "medieval" system of property-based business rates, he would rip it up.

Slowly the medieval system of land tenure and communal farming broke down.

In Britain and in its American colonies, however, the altered medieval system survived.

Elton's Cromwell was the man who blew away the medieval system of government based on the king's household.

(His mind was too much shaped by Scholasticism, the medieval system of learning, to do the latter himself).

The medieval system (both sacramental and sacerdotal) in effect made priests the mediators between God and humankind.

After the turn of the century, the research of such scholars as Johannes Wolf resulted in the study of medieval systems of notation and in the transcription and publication of the works of many medieval and Renaissance masters.

Both the Sunni and the Shīʿite medieval systems of learning, however, have come face to face with the greatest challenge of all the impact of modern education and thought.

1530 Angers, France June 1596 Laon, France Jean Bodin, (born 1530, Angers, France died June 1596, Laon) French political philosopher whose exposition of the principles of stable government was widely influential in Europe at a time when medieval systems were giving way to centralized states.

If the Russians are happy with it, should their peculiar semi-modern, semi-medieval system concern us?

Afghanistan's "highly decentralized, quasi-medieval system," Ms. Ottaway went on, required a more "pragmatic" approach in which the international community works with the warlords to distribute aid in regions where the central government is weak.