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  • The men seemed to be dressed in medieval robes.†   (source)
  • Inside, intricate stone carvings and wood trim gave the law school an almost medieval feel.†   (source)
  • Beyond the security gate were neighborhoods of beautiful houses from every time period in history, Roman villas and medieval castles and Victorian mansions.†   (source)
  • Granta House was on the other side of Stortfold Castle, close to the medieval walls, on the long unpavemented stretch that comprised only four houses and the National Trust shop, bang in the middle of the tourist area.†   (source)
  • As they approached, Langdon saw the entrance was blocked by an enormous steel grate that looked like something used by medieval castles to keep out marauding armies.†   (source)
  • Here, people whisper, the Germans have renovated two kilometers of subterranean corridors under the medieval walls; they have built new defenses, new conduits, new escape routes, underground complexes of bewildering intricacy.†   (source)
  • They arrived at an enormous door, which seemed and likely was medieval, something that would have kept barbarians at bay.†   (source)
  • There are ridges in the field, which means that in medieval times it was what is called a ridge and This is really true because I asked Siobhan what people thought about when they looked at things, and this is what she said.†   (source)
  • Then she found something that looked less, well, medieval: vitamin C. Surely that couldn't be too bad for her?†   (source)
  • Hope it ain't too medieval for ya!†   (source)
  • It was a scene that could easily have accommodated, in the distance at least, a medieval castle.†   (source)
  • I was in an enormous classroom, with a vaulted ceiling like a medieval cathedral.†   (source)
  • Filth had laid seige to the Ayemenem House like a medieval army advancing on an enemy castle.†   (source)
  • At sixteen, Eleanor was already built like she ran a medieval pub. She had too much of everything and too little height to hide it.†   (source)
  • The only shelter was provided by the suits of medieval armour punctuating the walls.†   (source)
  • Little by little, we ventured farther away from our building, first down the street, then around the block, and finally to the river where the Powstancow Slaskich Bridge connected our area to Krakow's main attractions: the traditional Jewish quarter of Kazimierz; the historic district of the Old Town; and Wawel Castle, the royal palace of kings and queens who had ruled when Krakow was the capital of medieval Poland.†   (source)
  • Medieval city: crooked streets, lights draped on bridges and shining off rain-peppered canals, melting in the drizzle.†   (source)
  • In the style of medieval villages, the town is organized around a large central square.†   (source)
  • Did you ever go to one of those fairs where people pretend they're still living in medieval times?†   (source)
  • The hospital could have been a medieval castle, filled with shrieks, broken bodies, smells of illness and medicines and grim, cruel faces everywhere.†   (source)
  • The Code demanded a forsaking of nuclear weapons and strategic bombing campaigns in all but the most extreme cases but, more than that, it demanded a return to Old Earth medieval concepts of set battles between small, professional forces at a mutually agreed upon time in a place where destruction of public and private property would be kept to a minimum.†   (source)
  • The Germans were too cultured and magnanimous a race, said the newspaper, to confine even parasites like the Jews to ghettos, a medieval remnant unworthy of the new order in Europe.†   (source)
  • He reads about how the pyramids and Greek temples and Medieval cathedrals were built, studying the plans of churches and palaces in his textbook.†   (source)
  • You can visit the ruins of an old medieval castle up there and look out on the plains and the orchards.†   (source)
  • Grendel, the monster in the medieval epic Beowulf (eighth century A.D.), is an actual monster, but he can also symbolize (a) the hostility of the universe to human existence (a hostility that medieval Anglo-Saxons would have felt acutely) and (b) a darkness in human nature that only some higher aspect of ourselves (as symbolized by the title hero) can conquer.†   (source)
  • That night, as we were watching the final, fantasy /medieval battle scene, Colton, then six, was really getting into it as winged creatures dropped boulders from the sky and the battle-dressed Pevensie kids clashed swords with the White Witch's evil army.†   (source)
  • Her jerkin was studded with shining silver bolts, giving it the appearance of a medieval breastplate, and her leather gloves had rectangular silver studs sewn onto the back of the fingers.†   (source)
  • In ancient Greece, too, there were many people who believed in an ascetic, or religiously secluded, way of life for the salvation of the soul Many aspects of medieval monastic life can be traced back to beliefs dating from the Greco-Roman civilization.†   (source)
  • Added to that was the thin melody of a wooden flute, which seemed to pick up the sharp metallic tink of the bells of the tambourine, winding them into a haunting melody that was medieval in sound.†   (source)
  • It was like looking at a row of skeletons, like one of those medieval woodcuts where the dead walked and talked and danced on the piled bodies of the living.†   (source)
  • The eyes were turned up in a medieval expression of slanted agony.†   (source)
  • Hiro breaks out of his orbit and heads straight for him, and they come together like a couple of medieval jousters.†   (source)
  • One chair seemed vaguely medieval, while a low ottoman by the fire was more contemporary and the stocked bookshelf against the far window reminded me of movies set in Italy.†   (source)
  • It sounds medieval in some ways.†   (source)
  • She was a large black woman with solid bones, the hips of a mare, teats like live melons, and a round and perfect head armored with a hard surface of wiry hair which looked like a medieval warrior's mail headdress.†   (source)
  • Yes, in ye olde medieval Europe you would've been quite the catch—†   (source)
  • Idling students may see time itself as a complex embellishment, a romance of human consciousness, as they witness the chairman walking across campus, crook'd arm emerging from his medieval robe, the digital watch blinking in late summer dusk.†   (source)
  • The train put wheels under them and here they run down the long road out of the Gothic and Baroque; look at their wagons and coaches, the carving like medieval shrines, all of it stuff once drawn by horses, mules, or, maybe, men.†   (source)
  • The long chemical names on the little white labels were as mystifying to me as medieval Latin.†   (source)
  • Dr. Isaacson did everything she could to save Mayinga, but she was as helpless before the agent as medieval doctors had been in the face of the black plague.†   (source)
  • When critics complained that it was a medieval punishment, Ehlers responded tersely: "A medieval device for a medieval deed.†   (source)
  • This awkward medieval instrument had three separate pieces.†   (source)
  • Yes; they are mediaeval—half savage.†   (source)
  • It felt as if his body had been put into one of those medieval torture racks, stretching his bones and sinews.†   (source)
  • I'm dressed like a medieval peasant (we're studying the Black Plague), and I have a fierce scowl and a dead rat dangling from one hand.†   (source)
  • The chief surgeon went on: The pressure to make public retractions of past statementsthere's something medieval about it.†   (source)
  • It's like a history club, where they study the medieval period together, on weekends.†   (source)
  • The real Iron Maiden was a medieval torture instrument, a sort of boiler which was shaped like a woman on the outside-and lined with spikes.†   (source)
  • "You started that letter on a hike in rural Haiti," I mused aloud, thinking now of those arid highlands, of medieval peasant huts, donkey ambulances.†   (source)
  • It's hard not to be distracted by the sight of a set of high-fortified walls—Luke says they belong to the ancient medieval village of Sarlat, and that we can go there to shop if I want to.†   (source)
  • Max backed away, confused and frightened, and crossed the velvet rope into the medieval gallery.†   (source)
  • His face seemed illuminated, shining against a dark background like one of those medieval Russian icons.†   (source)
  • But I'm not quite ready to throw away centuries of scientific progress to start thinking like a medieval peasant.†   (source)
  • She came upon an ancient book in the house called Devils, Drugs, and Doctors and was frightened to mute hysteria by pictures of medieval labor chairs, delivery instruments, and the information that women were sometimes thrown repeatedly against walls to induce birth.†   (source)
  • Armor was displayed, from medieval ages to the thin, impenetrable vests that were current military issue.†   (source)
  • They molded to the almost medieval landscape: the harsh mill yards, the endless solid walls of factory buildings, the heavy wrought-iron gates, the dwarfing scale of architecture.†   (source)
  • He and Meredith made their way to the basement, which had been decorated like some kind of medieval torture room.†   (source)
  • Past the gauntlet of black pebbles, Mortenson felt he had entered a medieval society of warring city states.†   (source)
  • Those Indians and medieval men were just as intelligent as we are, but the context in which they thought was completely different.†   (source)
  • "There is the Blessed Sacrament," said the driver, entering the street where the church rose in minor medieval splendor in the center of a manicured lawn, crisscrossed by stone paths and dotted with statuary.†   (source)
  • Ann gives herself a medieval gown of spun gold.†   (source)
  • "A medieval princess," Sarah went on.†   (source)
  • Remember how I said the only thing missing from this medieval village was a big old castle looming over it?†   (source)
  • Janet stepped off to the left to examine a huge painting of a medieval battle.†   (source)
  • Then they demolished their ramshackle medieval cottage and built a sensible, plain-faced brick and thatch farmhouse.†   (source)
  • "It's a medieval, gravity-operated catapult," Fredi said, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.†   (source)
  • Sadly, the power games of medieval monarchs and feudal chiefs sowed the seeds of later trouble.†   (source)
  • They have one tower built, and Spencer checks the box to make sure they are building the second tower just like in the medieval castle in the picture.†   (source)
  • Whereas the old Castle looked like a medieval fortress made of stone and brick, the new USDB looked like a community college.†   (source)
  • He asked what a certain medieval commentator had remarked about that statement" and Danny answered.†   (source)
  • The maps reveal rumours of topography, the routes for invasion and trade, and the dark mad mind of travellers' tales appears throughout Arab and Chinese and medieval records.†   (source)
  • Instead, I found a group of girls standing in front of the bathroom door, waiting like excited spectators at a medieval hanging.†   (source)
  • My mind started conjuring up images of a medieval dungeon.†   (source)
  • Jalal sped through the cobbled alleyways of the medieval center and parked in a small courtyard.†   (source)
  • Those found guilty of an honor violation were drummed out of the Corps in a dark ceremony of expatriation that had a remorseless medieval splendor about it.†   (source)
  • New York makes its own hills with craning buildings, but this gold and white acropolis rising wave on wave against the blue of the Pacific sky was a stunning thing, a painted thing like a picture of a medieval Italian city which can never have existed.†   (source)
  • The moral rage, it's a throwback, it's medieval.†   (source)
  • In medieval times, men sought sanctuary in churches.†   (source)
  • You know, Cracow is a very ancient city, and our house was not far from the central square, where in the middle is this beautiful building that was made in medieval times—the Sukiennice it is called in Polish, which I believe translated in English means the cloth-hall, where they would have a market in all types of cloths and fabrics.†   (source)
  • Mr. Welti knew about the whole throng of them, from medieval times on, and the three brothers who set forth to the New World from German Switzerland and settled from Virginia westward over Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana before the Revolutionary War.†   (source)
  • DRUMMOND All I want is to prevent the clock-stoppers from dumping a load of medieval nonsense into the United States Constitution.†   (source)
  • The cop on the beat—an old-fashioned curiosity as impractical and inefficient today as the hand-crank butter churn or the medieval gisarme—could come to know his neighborhood, protect it and be protected by it: he could be as well liked as the grocer or mailman or launderer.†   (source)
  • Between the gloomy, bristling walls of almost black pines the leafy thickets shone flame— and wine-colored like medieval towns with painted and gold-roofed palaces built of the timber cut down in the thickness of the forest.†   (source)
  • They were not as medieval as they looked; they zipped up the front and were marked inside Fabrique en France.†   (source)
  • India and China have not been so relatively powerful since medieval  times.
  • The book examines the connections between medieval literature and courtly love.
    medieval = relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
  • Thirteenth-century translation of the original medieval Aramaic.†   (source)
  • Dressed in a wool robe with a rope tie, he resembled a medieval cleric.†   (source)
  • It started out as safe swordfight practice in medieval Scotland.†   (source)
  • Did you know that Inkheart is set in a world not unlike our own medieval times?†   (source)
  • They were Muggles, and they had a very medieval attitude toward magic.†   (source)
  • The chanting continued like the drone of voices in a medieval canticle.†   (source)
  • All I could picture in my head was a ridiculous medieval suit of armor.†   (source)
  • Medieval voices, austere and otherworldly.†   (source)
  • "The medieval philosophers took it almost for granted that Christianity was true," he began.†   (source)
  • 'I'm not certain,' I said, unable to keep my eyes off that awful medieval Satan.†   (source)
  • The human, Butler, was strapping on a medieval suit of armour.†   (source)
  • We mast first talk a little about medieval philosophy.†   (source)
  • He danced under the tusks, hammering home a devastating uppercut with his medieval weapon.†   (source)
  • Grail Allegory in Medieval Literature: A Treatise on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.†   (source)
  • A model for a fully articulated medieval French knight.†   (source)
  • Throughout the whole medieval period, the point of departure had always been God.†   (source)
  • He wrote a novel called Heinrich von Ofterdingen set in Medieval times.†   (source)
  • But first I must tell you about the other great medieval philosopher.†   (source)
  • And then Sophie meets Alberto Knox disguised as a medieval monk in the twelfth-century stone church.†   (source)
  • Almost all medieval philosophy centered on this one question.†   (source)
  • Alberto had no problem slipping into the role of a medieval priest.†   (source)
  • Rome was thus the Christian capital throughout most of the medieval period.†   (source)
  • What medieval person would have believed such a thing possible?†   (source)
  • Maybe you could do your dining room in medieval monk skulls.†   (source)
  • The one main road through town led uphill to an incredible medieval castle.†   (source)
  • Like some medieval town with the castle smack at the center.†   (source)
  • The press of people was relieved when the street widened into an old medieval square.†   (source)
  • My first books were medieval demonologies with illuminated pages.†   (source)
  • "So medieval," an unpleasantly shrill, female voice gushed back.†   (source)
  • The walls rose about three feet and were utterly medieval in their homeliness.†   (source)
  • I'm a woman, the Pontiff is not; he's merely medieval.†   (source)
  • If it was a catapult, it needed to look appropriately medieval.†   (source)
  • The Merchants' Gate was a medieval tunnel of stone and brick.†   (source)
  • I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period.†   (source)
  • From the outside it looked like an ancient stone castle like they had in medieval times.†   (source)
  • Two large towers rise like medieval buttresses.†   (source)
  • Alex reached for a leather satchel and unclasped it to reveal a row of medieval torture implements.†   (source)
  • T.J. jabbed his bayonet through the faceplate of a medieval knight.†   (source)
  • We pass another enormous structure, this one like the ruins of a medieval castle.†   (source)
  • It's like a movie-set version of a French medieval village—only it isn't a movie set.†   (source)
  • And he carries off, among other things, images of them and their medieval huts.†   (source)
  • Back in medieval times, some of the Vikings settled in Russia.†   (source)
  • The Church with all its medieval lunacies once held sway over Cuba.†   (source)
  • She wore a conical steel helmet over a green head wrap, sort of like a medieval knight.†   (source)
  • Some einherjar wore full plate mail like medieval knights.†   (source)
  • To say I nurtured a medieval atmosphere in a modern, incredulous world.†   (source)
  • You've heard about mad medieval nuns and monks turned rapist.†   (source)
  • Lot of people say they're a medieval torture.†   (source)
  • Medieval.†   (source)
  • It was an image almost mediaeval in its plain lines, its angular clarity: a nun in a cloister, a maiden in a towered dungeon, awaiting the next day's burning at the stake, or else the last-minute champion come to rescue her.†   (source)
  • Ron was seriously affronted when a medieval wizard called out that he clearly had a bad case of spattergroit.†   (source)
  • In front of us stood a little church, the sort of ancient building you often find in London—a somber bit of medieval stone wedged between a Caffe Nero and a chemist's shop with neon signs offering selected hair products 3 for £1.†   (source)
  • Buildings crowded together inside high walls like a medieval town, way older than any place Leo had seen before.†   (source)
  • There was nothing in Madcap Magic for Wacky Warlocks....nothing in A Guide to Medieval Sorcery ....not one mention of underwater exploits in An Anthology of Eighteenth-Century Charms, or in Dreadful Denizens of the Deep, or Powers You Never Knew You Had and What to Do with Them Now Youve Wised Up.†   (source)
  • If it were possible to run from disease spirits, the medieval Europeans would've put on their track shoes and escaped the Black Death.†   (source)
  • Medieval weapons and trinkets lined the shelves along with leather-bound books and photographs of Randolph at dig sites in Scandinavia.†   (source)
  • As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter, as witness the pagan elements in medieval Christianity and the evolution of the Russian "KGB" from the czarist secret service that preceded it; and Gilead was no exception to this rule.†   (source)
  • It was so dense in places that it even reflected the sunlight, making it appear like a medieval suit of armor.†   (source)
  • All around the room stood life-size ice sculpture warriors—some in Greek armor, some medieval, some in modern camouflage—all frozen in various attack positions, swords raised, guns locked and loaded.†   (source)
  • Shoulder to shoulder, half standing, half sitting, they faced their childhood home whose architecturally confused medieval references seemed now to be whimsically lighthearted; their mother's migraine was a comic interlude in a light opera, the sadness of the twins a sentimental extravagance, the incident in the kitchen no more than the merry jostling of lively spirits.†   (source)
  • The skin becomes almost translucent, the eye sockets dark, so that the sufferer takes on the appearance of a martyr in medieval paintings.†   (source)
  • Like a medieval executioner peering through the tilted eye-slits of his peaked black hood at the executionee.†   (source)
  • If you strike a man on the top of his head with a katana and do not make 2flY effort to stop the blade, it will divide his;kull and probably get hung up in his collarbone or his pelvis, and then you will be out there in the middle of the medieval battlefield with a foot on your late opponent's face, trying to work the blade loose as his best friend comes running up to you with a certain vengeful gleam in his eye.†   (source)
  • 'Get over here,' muttered Hermione, tugging at Harry's wrist and pulling him back into a recess where the ugly stone head of a medieval wizard stood muttering to itself on a column.†   (source)
  • It could have been a modest abode in almost any age—ancient Athens, medieval France, the farmlands of Iowa.†   (source)
  • He runs across the sand at full tilt, then stops and stares up at the ramparts rearing above him as though imagining pennants and cannons and medieval archers ranged along the parapets.†   (source)
  • Nikhil registers for his first four classes: Intro to the History of Art, Medieval History, a semester of Spanish, Astronomy to fulfill his hard science requirement.†   (source)
  • He learned by heart the fantastic legends of the crumbling books, the synthesis of the studies of Hermann the Cripple, the notes on the science of demonology, the keys to the philosopher's stone, theCenturies of Nostradamus and his research concerning the plague, so that he reached adolescence without knowing a thing about his own time but with the basic knowledge of a medieval man.†   (source)
  • The hollow let out an ear-splitting screech and began to lift sheep to its slavering jaws one after another, taking a blood-spurting bite from each and then tossing it aside like a gluttonous king gorging at a medieval feast.†   (source)
  • Medieval stuff.†   (source)
  • The nun lunched at the house while she waited for the train back, and in accordance with the discretion they asked of her, she did not mention the child again, but Fernanda viewed her as an undesirable witness of her shame and lamented the fact that they had abandoned the medieval custom of hanging a messenger who bore bad news.†   (source)
  • Every few years, there seemed to be another news article about the missing masterworks, which along with my Goldfinch and two loaned van der Asts also included some valuable Medieval pieces and a number of Egyptian antiquities; scholars had written papers, there had even been books; it was mentioned as one of the Ten Top Art Crimes on the FBI's website; previously, I'd taken great comfort in the fact that most people assumed that whoever had made off with the van der Asts from Galleries 29 and 30 had stolen my painting, too.†   (source)
  • I pointed to the medieval picture.†   (source)
  • The symbol , as any scholar of medieval art would recognize, was a well-known symbature—a symbol used in place of a signature.†   (source)
  • Sometimes influence is direct and obvious, as when the twentieth-century American writer T. Coraghessan Boyle writes "The Overcoat II," a postmodern reworking of the nineteenth-century Russian writer Nikolai Gogol's classic story "The Overcoat," or when William Trevor updates James Joyce's "Two Gallants" with "Two More Gallants," or when John Gardner reworks the medieval Beowulf into his little postmodern masterpiece Grendel.†   (source)
  • Then came Astronomy at midnight, up on the tallest tower; History of Magic on Wednesday morning, in which Harry scribbled everything Florean Fortescue had ever told him about medieval witch-hunts, while wishing he could have had one of Fortescue's choco-nut sundaes with him in the stifling classroom.†   (source)
  • Ammu was incoherent with rage and disbelief at what was happening to her—at being locked away like the family lunatic in a medieval household.†   (source)
  • But Paris, Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets-as vast and indestructible as nature itself.†   (source)
  • Harry didn't have to do his homework under the blankets by flashlight anymore; now he could sit in the bright sunshine outside Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor, finishing all his essays with occasional help from Florean Fortescue himself, who, apart from knowing a great deal about medieval witch burnings, gave Harry free sundaes every half an hour.†   (source)
  • Behind those medieval walls lay the bodies of a million insects, and under its floors the cooling corpses of spiders and mice.†   (source)
  • On their right was a medieval-style garden, famous for its ancient rosebushes and Shadow House gazebo.†   (source)
  • The centrepiece of the Fowl estate was a renovated late-medieval/earlymodern castle, built by Lord Hugh Fowl in the fifteenth century.†   (source)
  • A series of candles on medieval floor stands shed a flickering glow on a wall that was completely hidden beneath pages of text, photos, and drawings.†   (source)
  • Beyond the prelature's adherence to the arcane ritual of corporal mortification, their views on women were medieval at best.†   (source)
  • I was in the black silence of a medieval street, and blindly I followed its sharp turns, comforted by the height of its narrow tenements, which seemed at any moment capable of falling together, closing this alleyway under the indifferent stars like a seam.†   (source)
  • In a quiet neighborhood just west of Embassy Row in Washington, there exists a medieval-style walled garden whose roses, it is said, spring from twelfth-century plants.†   (source)
  • I kept looking at Claudia, the way she lay against the books, the way she sat amongst the objects of the desk, the polished white skull, the candle-holder, the open parchment book whose hand-painted script gleamed in the light; and then above her there emerged into focus the lacquered and shimmering painting of a medieval devil, horned and hoofed, his bestial figure looming over a coven of worshipping witches.†   (source)
  • Half a millennium's bad drainage from the medieval walls had transformed the foundations into a virtual bog.†   (source)
  • The medieval Italian card game was so replete with hidden heretical symbolism that Langdon had dedicated an entire chapter in his new manuscript to the Tarot.†   (source)
  • As predicted, it swooped through the decimated doorway without knocking so much as a sliver of stone from the medieval walls.†   (source)
  • With the exception of the eerie, robot-like doll of a medieval knight that seemed to be staring at him from the corner of Saunière's desk, Collet was comfortable.†   (source)
  • He was dressed in the garb of a medieval heretic being led to the gallows—noose around his neck, left pant leg rolled up to the knee, right sleeve rolled up to the elbow, and his shirt gaping open to reveal his bare chest.†   (source)
  • One of Jacques Saunière's favorite pastimes was bringing Da Vinci's more obscure brainstorms to life—timepieces, water pumps, cryptexes, and even a fully articulated model of a medieval French knight, which now stood proudly on the desk in his office.†   (source)
  • Moving faster than Butler would have believed possible, the troll sprang across the lobby, brushing the medieval armour aside as though it were a shop mannequin.†   (source)
  • He continued to read day and night—ancient mystical texts, epic medieval poems, the early philosophers—and the more he learned about the true nature of things, the more he realized that all hope for mankind was lost.†   (source)
  • As was tradition, he had begun this journey adorned in the ritualistic garb of a medieval heretic being led to the gallows, his loose-fitting shirt gaping open to reveal his pale chest, his left pant leg rolled up to the knee, and his right sleeve rolled up to the elbow.†   (source)
  • He thus did away with the medieval belief that there is one set of laws for heaven and another here on earth.†   (source)
  • Sitting on a church bench at ten in the morning was odd in itself, and sitting with a medieval monk wouldn't make things look any better.†   (source)
  • In the medieval Catholic Church, the church's liturgy in Latin and the church's ritual prayers had been the backbone of the religious service.†   (source)
  • The medieval philosophers had insisted that there is an insurmountable barrier between God and the Creation.†   (source)
  • The word 'medieval' is used negatively nowadays about anything that is over-authoritative and inflexible.†   (source)
  • Briefly, we can say that Aquinas christianized Aristotle in the same way that St. Augustine christianized Plato in early medieval times.†   (source)
  • As they sat there together, with the light that filtered into the church through the stained-glass windows becoming sharper and sharper, Alberto Knox began to talk about medieval philosophy.†   (source)
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