This represented a sharp break with a prominent feature of mediaeval thought.
He derives this style of reading from mediaeval rabbinical practice.
During the course of the work, an archaic-sounding theme on viola, like a mediaeval chant or carol, is transmogrified and splintered.
There are striking instances of correlation between speech area boundaries and mediaeval administrative boundaries.
The first book is an important piece of ornithology, certainly the best that was produced in mediaeval times.
These religious parameters remained broadly unchanged throughout the later mediaeval period.
Evidently mediaeval thinking still has a powerful hold, even among educated people, especially when they go outside their own specialities.
Many theological assumptions and arguments may have been reasonable given the resources available in, say, mediaeval times.
