It's positively medieval.

In medieval societies there were defined allegiances.

A medieval witch's specialty... a wind storm.

If you think of medieval cities, medieval cities the boroughs all have the names of the guilds and professions that lived there.

Does God demand loyalty, like any medieval tyrant?

And we stitch them together like medieval monks.

Your expressions have the Baretto flavour, almost medieval.

That sounds medieval. Something out of an old melodrama.

And these were traditions of the Middle East medieval traditions.

1949, professor of Medieval History at a leading Southern university.

It sounds like a medieval saint who was burned to death.

We did it yesterday and we're still alive. Don't be so medieval.

So that is both Aristotelian cosmology, and in a certain sense, medieval society.

. The Medieval and Renaissance origins of the status of the American Indian in western legal thought.

I am simply trying to prevent the clockstoppers from dumping a lot of medieval nonsense into the United States Constitution.

Kit Harington is known for his sword swinging role as Jon Snow in HBO's violent medieval fantasy series Game of Thrones.

The Great Hall at the Met is one of the great portals of the world, awe inspiring, like a medieval cathedral.

I loved Johnny English approaching a helicopter while dressed in a medieval suit of armour and the rotor blades briefly clanging against his helmet.

In 50 years they've gone from a pre Medieval situation to a very decent 100 year ago Europe, with a functioning nation and state.

The thing is, if we don't know whether we are doing any good, we are not any better than the Medieval doctors and their leeches.

Spain In the late 1980s, Santiago de Compostela experienced a mass exodus caused by the decay and deterioration of the medieval city's historic city centre.

It's crude, but remarkably similar to these copies... of old woodcuts and medieval drawings... of a fire demon invoked by witchcraft to destroy an enemy.

After the fall of Ceausescu, I went to Romania and discovered a kind of gulag of children, where thousands of orphans were being kept in medieval conditions.

Medieval court jesters were often the only ones who could speak truth to despotic kings. Today, it is often comedians who claim to speak truth to power and to the public.

Germany seems surprised by this. Like medieval blood letters, the country s leaders refuse to see that the medicine does not work, and insist on more of it until the patient finally dies.

And then bird manages to pull itself together past this medieval tower one of the few remaining medieval towers towards the church of Sant'Agnese and around the dome looking down into Piazza Navona which we've already mentioned and seen and flown over a couple of times there's the Bernini statue of the Four Rivers and then past the wonderful Borromini Sant'Ivo, stopping just long enough on the 26 foot diameter Oculus of the Pantheon to catch our breath.

A thousand years ago, the Norse settlers of my home city of York ate cod that weighed as much as eight kilograms. We know this from archaeologists and the fascination they have for medieval waste heaps.

The problem for the Medieval Spanish scholars who were tasked with translating this material is that the letter SHeen and the word shalan can't be rendered into Spanish because Spanish doesn't have that SH, that sh sound.

Globalization, which can be defined as interdependence at inter continental distances, is as old as human history. Witness the migration of peoples and religions, or trade along the ancient silk route that connected medieval Europe and Asia.

Many people are finding more analogies with medieval life, in which humans were surrounded by processes that they found difficult to comprehend. As a result, they thought they lived in a world populated by demons and mysterious forces.

And Aristotle s law of motion was that everything goes to its natural place, which was of course, the rule of the society that Aristotle lived in, and more importantly, the medieval society that, through Christianity, embraced Aristotle and blessed it.

So it may well be that the demand for discussing, say, medieval French church music in small classes at a university will grow even as the demand for MOOCs grows. Not everyone should heed Andreessen s exhortation to quit liberal arts programs!

In the twentieth century, the Japanese imperialists abducted and forcibly drafted young and middle aged Koreans by dint of the Government and military authorities, which, in terms of barbarity, is the biggest criminal abduction, far surpassing the slave hunting of medieval ages.

A weak, partitioned Afghanistan may not be a desirable outcome but a soft partition now would be far better than a hard partition later, after years of chaos and bloodletting and infinitely better than the medieval Taliban s return to power and a fresh reign of terror.

The Islamic State is attempting to return to an even more distant past. Its adherents espouse a medieval ninth century doctrine to justify their effort to reestablish the caliphate, in which the legality of all emirates, groups, states, and organizations becomes null and summary execution and slavery are mandatory.

Congress, at its core, pursues a form of dynastic democracy with the characteristics of a Sultanistic regime a regime with no purpose or function apart from maintaining the leader s personal authority. But, though such leaders perhaps have more personal authority than even medieval monarchs, their authority is brittle.

Howard's about this high, and he's round, and he's in his 60s, and he has big huge glasses and thinning grey hair, and he has a kind of wonderful exuberance and vitality, and he has a parrot, and he loves the opera, and he's a great aficionado of medieval history.

But at the same time, as Arthur C. Clarke said, The rotting of the human mind, the business of believing in the paranormal and the occult and the supernatural all of this total nonsense, this medieval thinking I think something should be done about that, and it all lies in education.

In a sense, central banks have begun to resemble medieval philosophical faculties, with discussions addressing the issues underlying policy decisions, rather than just the policies themselves. In the ECB, for example, a debate is underway to determine under which conditions deviation from fiscal orthodoxy might be stabilizing in the long term.

Similarly, Obama s strategy toward the Islamic State seeks merely to limit the reach of a barbaric medieval order. Moments after declaring his intention to degrade and destroy the group, Obama responded to a reporter s request for clarification by stating that his real goal is to turn the Islamic State into a manageable problem.

Some are to Koranic prophets even older than Muhammad others are to Shia imams or Sufi saints and still others are to hallowed Muslim women. The name of one holy place, the necropolis of Makli in Pakistan, hints at its medieval ambition to become an alternative destination for pilgrims Makli means the little Mecca.

When incomprehension no longer produces new heights of prosperity, but rather economic collapse and failure, it is not surprising that it turns to anger. Finding out who is to blame becomes more and more like the late medieval and early modern search for witches a way of making sense of a disorderly and hostile universe.

As the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Thomas P. Campbell thinks deeply about curating not just selecting art objects, but placing them in a setting where the public can learn their stories. With glorious images, he shows how his curation philosophy works for displaying medieval tapestries and for the over the top fashion art of Alexander McQueen.

The moral of the tale is simple Austerity in a slump does not work, for the reason that the medieval cure of bleeding a patient never worked it enfeebles instead of strengthening. Inserting the confidence fairy between the cause and effect of a policy does not change the logic of the policy it simply obscures the logic for a time.

Powered by a fundamentalist Wahhabi ideology and a boundless appetite for bloodshed, the Islamic State seeks a return to an imagined pre modern caliphate that subjugates Shia and treats non Muslims as second class citizens. When the Islamic State captures a city, its fighters give Christians the choice of paying a medieval tax known as the jizya, converting to Islam, or being killed.