dark ages

Noun
  1. The period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance (synset 115284095)
    associated with:
    • bloodletting - formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine)
    • cannon - (Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm
    • chain armor, chain armour, chain mail, mail, ring armor, ring armour, ring mail - (Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings
    • habergeon - (Middle Ages) a light sleeveless coat of chain mail worn under the hauberk
    • illumination, miniature - painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts)
    • pavis, pavise - (Middle Ages) a large heavy oblong shield protecting the whole body; originally carried but sometimes set up in permanent position
    • humor, humour - (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state
    • cockaigne - (Middle Ages) an imaginary land of luxury and idleness
    • courtly love - (Middle Ages) a highly conventionalized code of conduct for lovers
    • knight errantry - (Middle Ages) the code of conduct observed by a knight errant who is wandering in search of deeds of chivalry
    • trivium - (Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence
    • quadrivium - (Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy
    • oberson - (Middle Ages) the king of the fairies and husband of Titania in medieval folklore
    • titania - (Middle Ages) the queen of the fairies in medieval folklore
    • esquire - (Middle Ages) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight; a candidate for knighthood
    • palatine, palsgrave - (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands
    • tristan, tristram - (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
    • iseult, isolde - (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
    • helot, serf, villein - (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord
    is an instance of: age, historic period - an era of history having some distinctive feature
    is a part of: history - the aggregate of past events
    same as: middle ages

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