medievalist
/ˌmɛdiˈivəlɪst/
noun
- A person who studies the Middle Ages (the period from about 500 to 1500 AD).
- Our guest speaker is a famous medievalist from Oxford University.
- As a medievalist, she specializes in the history of knights and castles.
- The medievalist spent years translating old Latin manuscripts.
- A person who admires or imitates the style, art, or ideas of the Middle Ages.
- Some medievalists dress in period costumes for Renaissance fairs.
- The architect was a medievalist who designed houses with stone walls and pointed arches.
- He calls himself a medievalist because he loves the music and poetry of that era.