All 3 Uses of
medieval
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- House of... We don't want any of your medieval abstrusiosities.†
Chpt 3 *
- DON EMILE PATRIZIO FRANZ RUPERT POPE HENNESSY: (In medieval hauberk, two wild geese volant on his helm, with noble indignation points a mailed hand against the privates) Werf those eykes to footboden, big grand porcos of johnyellows todos covered of gravy!†
Chpt 15
- the messuage to consist of 1 drawingroom with baywindow (2 lancets), thermometer affixed, 1 sittingroom, 4 bedrooms, 2 servants' rooms, tiled kitchen with close range and scullery, lounge hall fitted with linen wallpresses, fumed oak sectional bookcase containing the Encyclopaedia Britannica and New Century Dictionary, transverse obsolete medieval and oriental weapons, dinner gong, alabaster lamp, bowl pendant, vulcanite automatic telephone receiver with adjacent directory, handtufted Axminster carpet with cream ground and trellis border, loo table with pillar and claw legs, hearth with massive firebrasses and ormolu mantel chronometer clock, guaranteed timekeeper with cathedral chime†
Chpt 17
Definition:
relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
(The period of European history beginning with the fall of the Roman Empire and followed by the Renaissance -- roughly 500-1500 AD)
(The period of European history beginning with the fall of the Roman Empire and followed by the Renaissance -- roughly 500-1500 AD)
Often thought of as a time of instability, superstition, plagues, feudal lords, and knighthood.