Meanings
adjectiveantimedieval (not comparable)
alternative antimediaeval
- not comparableOpposed to the Middle Ages.
This antimedieval attitude began during the Renaissance. The people of this period, in a kind of adolescent spirit of rebellion, tended to denigrate their “parent age” as old-fashioned, primitive, and embarrassing.
1991, Norman A. Bert, Theatre Alive!: An Introductory Anthology of World Drama, page 73
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