Definition of "medievalist" [medievalist]

• A specialist in the study of the Middle Ages. (noun)
• A connoisseur of medieval culture. (noun)

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• "Scholarship, to this young medievalist, is about forging connections – not simply in works of the past but to them, as well among the massive body of texts that remain."
• "He had been called a medievalist, a thought he was one of those for whom the world came to an end with the invention of the printing press."
• "The only way one is a 'medievalist' is because 'early modernist' exists as a category, after all."