medievalist
noun
me·di·e·val·ist
ˌmē-ˈdē-və-list 
mi-,
ˌme-,
-dē-ˈē-və-
1
: a specialist in medieval history and culture
2
: a connoisseur or devotee of medieval arts and culture
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The Gottschalk was the sort of text—Latin, Christian, European—on which medievalists built respectable careers.
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Ariel Sabar,
The Atlantic,
8 Aug. 2024
The footage was only two minutes long, yet that was enough to conjure months of debate over sacred relics, goddesses and swords that could easily be confused for the arcane squabbles of medievalists studying Arthurian legend.
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Zachary Small,
New York Times,
4 May 2023
But in October of last year Sebastian Sobecki, a Chaucer scholar at the University of Toronto, and Euan Roger, a medievalist at the British National Archives, published a piece in The Chaucer Review, announcing a breakthrough.
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Joan Acocella,
The New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2023
Some might protect people from thunderstorms or ward off the evil eye, according to archival texts that Marisa Galvez, a medievalist at Stanford University, has combed through.
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Leslie Nemo,
Discover Magazine,
23 Sep. 2020
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Ariel Sabar,
The Atlantic,
8 Aug. 2024
The footage was only two minutes long, yet that was enough to conjure months of debate over sacred relics, goddesses and swords that could easily be confused for the arcane squabbles of medievalists studying Arthurian legend.
—
Zachary Small,
New York Times,
4 May 2023
But in October of last year Sebastian Sobecki, a Chaucer scholar at the University of Toronto, and Euan Roger, a medievalist at the British National Archives, published a piece in The Chaucer Review, announcing a breakthrough.
—
Joan Acocella,
The New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2023
Some might protect people from thunderstorms or ward off the evil eye, according to archival texts that Marisa Galvez, a medievalist at Stanford University, has combed through.
—
Leslie Nemo,
Discover Magazine,
23 Sep. 2020
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“Medievalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/medievalist. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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