dark ages
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1. the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance (noun.time)
| instance hypernym | : | age, historic period, |
| definition | : | an era of history having some distinctive feature (noun.time) |
| part meronym | : | history, |
| definition | : | the aggregate of past events (noun.time) |
| domain member category | : | bloodletting, |
| definition | : | formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine) (noun.act) |
| domain member category | : | cannon, |
| definition | : | (Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm (noun.artifact) |
| domain member category | : | habergeon, |
| definition | : | (Middle Ages) a light sleeveless coat of chain mail worn under the hauberk (noun.artifact) |
| domain member category | : | illumination, miniature, |
| definition | : | painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts) (noun.artifact) |
| domain member category | : | pavis, pavise, |
| definition | : | (Middle Ages) a large heavy oblong shield protecting the whole body; originally carried but sometimes set up in permanent position (noun.artifact) |
| domain member category | : | humor, humour, |
| definition | : | (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state (noun.body) |
| domain member category | : | cockaigne, |
| definition | : | (Middle Ages) an imaginary land of luxury and idleness (noun.cognition) |
| domain member category | : | courtly love, |
| definition | : | (Middle Ages) a highly conventionalized code of conduct for lovers (noun.cognition) |
| domain member category | : | knight errantry, |
| definition | : | (Middle Ages) the code of conduct observed by a knight errant who is wandering in search of deeds of chivalry (noun.cognition) |
| domain member category | : | trivium, |
| definition | : | (Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence (noun.cognition) |
| domain member category | : | quadrivium, |
| definition | : | (Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy (noun.cognition) |
| domain member category | : | oberson, |
| definition | : | (Middle Ages) the king of the fairies and husband of Titania in medieval folklore (noun.person) |
| domain member category | : | titania, |
| definition | : | (Middle Ages) the queen of the fairies in medieval folklore (noun.person) |
| domain member category | : | esquire, |
| definition | : | (Middle Ages) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight; a candidate for knighthood (noun.person) |
| domain member category | : | palatine, palsgrave, |
| definition | : | (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands (noun.person) |
| domain member category | : | tristan, tristram, |
| definition | : | (Middle Ages) the nephew of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with his uncle's bride (Iseult) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other (noun.person) |
| domain member category | : | iseult, isolde, |
| definition | : | (Middle Ages) the bride of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with the king's nephew (Tristan) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other (noun.person) |
| domain member category | : | helot, serf, villein, |
| definition | : | (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord (noun.person) |
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