Sentence examples for upon a medieval from inspiring English sources
While driving through the countryside, we came upon a medieval festival.
The mind, he argued, might be compared with a mythical Rome that could raise a modern civic building upon a medieval cathedral built over a classical temple, while preserving all three structures in the same spot: "Where the Colosseum now stands we could at the same time admire Nero's vanished Golden House...
Yet as Monica H. Green reveals in her introduction to the first English translation ever based upon a medieval form of the text, the Trotula is not a single treatise but an ensemble of three independent works, each by a different author.
It was based upon a medieval painting.
Steeped in British history, the structure is an amalgam of architectural styles: Jacobean interiors, an Edwardian Chapel, and a 1980s graffiti-filled loft, all built upon a medieval foundation.
In Riverfront Antique and Thrift, I happened upon something that resembled a medieval torture device, with four giant hooks attached to a chain.
No wonder Baudelaire, as well as Wilde's Dorian Gray, fell upon this tale of a medieval troubadour as the ultimate hymn to decadence.
He had me sleep on this electric sheet: a medieval sheet of soft metal that, upon getting wet, would set off a horrifyingly loud alarm.
The Newcastle town wall is a medieval defensive wall, and Scheduled Ancient Monument, in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
A medieval kind of slavery.
A medieval heraldic shield.
