Meaning of medievaloid | Babel Free

Definitions

Having the likeness of the Middle Ages.

Examples

“As to the age difference between husbands and wives, which is essentially based on the patriarchal tradition that the man is the “senior” in the home, it will probably disappear in the case of all forms of marriage other than the classic familistic one; there, where people have explicitly decided that the kind of marriage they want is the same as their parents had back in the medievaloid 1970s, or the ancient 1960s, the husband will continue to be a few years older than his wife.”

“Dearly as I love the flavor of medieval Europe, I sympathize with those who find the endless monotony of uninventive, limp and lifeless medievaloid trilogies tiresome, and I approached [Orson Scott] Card’s books from the very first with high hopes.”

“Yet their mock-heroic novel of medievaloid enchantment does lie enough toward the hilarious end of the spectrum to let me say that if you think you would love the result of a collaboration between J. R. R. Tolkien and P. G. Wodehouse, you’ll love this one.”

“(Sceptics should be aware that neo-Gothic has definitely been in at least since 1987, when Philip Johnson and Raj Ahuaja’s^([sic – meaning Ahuja’s]) medievaloid, spired and piered IBM Tower opened in Atlanta.)”

“Then he decided to offer the box, pushing it across the massive, mediaevaloid coffee table that stood between them.”

“[Orson Scott] Card says, “I could have written Songmaster as a fantasy and set it in Europe in 1312. . . . I wouldn’t have to change anything but the word spaceship.” But Card didn’t do the story as a medievaloid fantasy because of the publishing practices of the time. For most editors “fantasy” had to have magic creatures—gnomes, elves, and so forth—and that was not what Card wanted here. […] The illustrations are a combination of medievaloid and modern. The magic mirror is sometimes an old-fashioned large oval looking glass and sometimes an Internet screen.”

“Besides, there were none of the other medievaloid trappings that the SCAdians tended to bedeck their vehicles with. No “I Stop For Dragons” bumper stickers, no rack of rattan weapons tied to the back, or pavilion lashed down to the top.”

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