Citations:pseudomedieval

English citations of pseudomedieval

Adjective: "seemingly, but not actually, medieval; resembling the Middle Ages, or something from that era"

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• 1943 — Helen Hill Miller, Yours for Tomorrow: A Personal Testament of Freedom, Farrar & Rinehart (1943), page 85:

  Around my dormitory's pseudomedieval entrance bees hung suspended in the heavy fragrance of the clematis vine.

• 1944 — A. J. Liebling, The Road Back to Paris, Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc. (1944), page 49:

  The forts the Germans built after '71 have the pseudomedieval quality of the National Guard armories in New York City.

• 1950 — Chad Walsh, Early Christians of the 21st Century, Harper & Brothers (1950), page 159:

  The Christians of that time may have a high regard for St. Thomas Aquinas, but I doubt that they will imitate the architecture of his day. Instead of hiring mediocre architects to turn out pseudomedieval structures, they will seek out the Frank Lloyd Wrights and have them build churches genuinely functional and as modern in spirit as secular architecture.

• 1960 — American Panorama: East of the Mississippi, Doubleday & Company (1960), page 388:

  A few miles from Gippy stands Mulberry Castle, the only "mansion" surviving of those built with the first crop of low-country fortunes in the early 18th Century, and, with its pseudomedieval towers, a fine example of Jacobean baroque architecture.

• 1969 — John D. Bergamini, The Tragic Dynasty: A History of the Romanovs, G. P. Putnam's Sons (1969), page 321:

  This pseudomedieval Grand Kremlin Palace may be the most apt symbol of a regime that was trying to go backward all the while it was going forward.

• 1977 — George McNeill, Rafaella, Bantam Books (1977), →ISBN, page 361:

  She found this pseudomedieval fair rather funny, for example, but there was no one with whom she could share the joke.

• 1978 — Egon Gartenberg, Mahler: The Man and His Music, Schirmer Books (1978), page 288:

  The songs themselves show a matured Mahler, intense and lean, far removed from the pseudomedieval romanticism of the Wunderhorn songs of earlier days.

• 1992 — Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier, Bantam Books (1992), →ISBN, page 112:

  The fantasy worlds of simulation gaming are commonly pseudomedieval, involving swords and sorcery — spell-casting wizards, knights in armor, unicorns and dragons, demons and goblins.

• 1996 — David H. Richter, The Progress of Romance: Literary Historiography and the Gothic Novel, Ohio State University Press (1996), →ISBN, page 68:

  Indeed, the national enthusiasm for matters medieval outran the ability to unearth the genuine article, and as a result manufacturing pseudomedieval texts became a cottage industry of the 1760s.

• 1998 — John Stephens & Robyn McCallum, Retelling Stories, Framing Culture: Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children's Literature, Routledge (1998), →ISBN, page 128:

  Next, characters from the contemporary world, usually children, cross over into a pseudomedieval paracosm, in such novels as Alan Garner's Elidor and Catherine Fisher's Fintan's Tower.

• 1999 — James Burke, The Knowledge Web: From Electronic Agents to Stonehenge and Back -- And Other Journeys Through Knowledge, Simon & Schuster (1999), →ISBN, page 152:

  Gothic architecture for Pugin was faith writ large in stone. Pugin designed everything in Parliament, from gargoyles to ceiling moldings, woodwork, carpets, metalwork, furniture, carvings, glass and everything in the great ceremonial chambers such as the House of Lords, perhaps the greatest pseudomedieval interior ever built.

• 1999 — Kurt Lancaster, Warlocks and Warpdrive: Contemporary Fantasy Entertainments with Interactive and Virtual Environments, McFarland & Company, Inc. (1999), →ISBN, page 32:

  The players, like many other people around the country, dress up in costumes and drive for hours to attend outdoor live role-playing games, where ordinary people transport themselves to a pseudomedieval fantasy world of the imagination, becoming sword-swinging heroes for a day, performing such characters as knights and sorcerers.

• 2007 — Austin Grossman, Soon I Will Be Invincible, Pantheon Books (2007), →ISBN, page 211:

  She also claimed to be the surviving member of a band of children that had acquired monarchical power in the feudal government of a pseudomedieval civilization of a dimension populated by humans, elves, and talking animals.

• 2008 — Donna Andrews, A Murder Hatched, Thomas Dunne Books (2008), →ISBN, page 102:

  Probably it was because Eileen has always longed to live in another century — any other century ; — and these gowns were in a rather ethereal pseudomedieval style.