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Medieval Greek (Μεσαιωνική ελληνική)
Medieval Greek (Μεσαιωνική ελληνική), also called Byzantine Greek, is the Koine-to-Modern Greek continuum to 1453, marked by diglossia between Atticizing learned and vernacular registers, loss of the infinitive, dative-genitive syncretism, and new future and perfect constructions.
Medieval household
A medieval household was the basic unit of residence, work, and authority in Europe from roughly the fifth to the fifteenth century, headed by one person.
Medieval II: Total War
Medieval II: Total War (Medieval 2) is a 2006 Creative Assembly/Sega strategy game, fourth in the Total War series, set 1080-1530 with 10,000-troop real-time battles, 17 factions, the Kingdoms expansion, and a major modding scene.
Medieval India
Medieval India: the middle period of subcontinental history, c. 1200–1750 CE, covering the Delhi Sultanate, Deccan sultanates, and Mughal Empire; defined by a colonial tripartite periodization and debated historiography.
Medieval Inquisition
Medieval Inquisition: the papal anti-heresy system of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Europe, based on the inquisitio judicial technique, run mainly by Dominicans and Franciscans, distinct from the later Spanish Inquisition.
Medieval Japanese literature
Medieval Japanese literature (chūsei bungaku) is the literature of Japan's middle ages under warrior rule, from the late 12th century to 1603, known for war tales, waka, and Noh theater.
Medieval Jewish philosophy
Medieval Jewish philosophy is the tradition of rational reflection on Judaism by Jewish thinkers from the tenth to sixteenth centuries, written in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew, from Saadia Gaon to Isaac Abravanel.
Medieval Latin
Medieval Latin: the Latin of roughly 500–1500 AD, a learned second language after the Romance vernaculars emerged, marked by spelling, grammar, and vocabulary variation, Carolingian reform, and humanist classicizing reaction.
Medieval Latin episcopate
The medieval Latin episcopate was the office of bishop in the Western Church of Europe during the Middle Ages, combining spiritual leadership with substantial temporal administration of dioceses.
Medieval literature
Medieval literature: writing in Latin and vernaculars from roughly 476–1500 (or c. 600–1450 by book history), spanning epic, romance, saga, and mysticism across European, Islamic, and East Asian traditions.
Medieval Monuments in Kosovo
Medieval Monuments in Kosovo (Monumentet Mesjetare në Kosovë) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site of four Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries, on the List of World Heritage in Danger since 2006.
Medieval music
Medieval music, the music of Western Europe from early Christian chant to about 1500, also called the Ars Antiqua and Ars Nova eras; spans Gregorian monody, Notre Dame polyphony, Philippe de Vitry's Ars Nova (c. 1320), Machaut, and the Franco-Flemish transition with Dufay.
Medieval philosophy
Medieval philosophy: philosophical work from roughly 500 to 1500 across Latin, Greek (Byzantine), Arabic, and Jewish traditions, rooted in Platonic-Aristotelian late antiquity, centered on commentary, universities, scholasticism, and logic, and defined by reasoning measured against religious doctrine.
Medieval settlement
Medieval settlement (Chapel Walls, Wolsingham Manor of the Bishop of Durham): Scheduled Monument NHLE 1002334 at Wolsingham, County Durham; earthworks of a c.220 by 200 ft banked and ditched enclosure, a probable moated manor of the Prince Bishops of Durham.
Medieval ships
Medieval ships, also called ships of the Middle Ages, were the wooden sailing and oared vessels of Europe, the Mediterranean, and Asia between roughly the fifth and fifteenth centuries.
Medieval square
Medieval Square (Середньовічна площа) is the central themed event area of Central (Gorky) Park in Kharkiv, Ukraine, with a 55 m Ferris wheel, the tallest in Ukraine, a 2,000+ m² children's Entertainment Center, and a medieval-style autodrom.
Medieval technology
Medieval technology: tools and techniques of Europe and Eurasia, c. 500-1500, spanning agriculture, water and wind power, clocks, military and construction innovations; also the historiography of Lynn White Jr.'s 1962 field-defining book.
Medieval theatre
Medieval theatre: European dramatic performance from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance, from liturgical Easter rites such as the Quem Quaeritis to vernacular guild-staged mystery cycles on pageant wagons, plus morality plays and the modern historiography of "liturgical drama."
Medieval Times
Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament: Spanish-founded (1973, Majorca) dinner theater chain with ten US and Canada castles; first North American castle in Kissimmee, Florida, December 1983; four-course hands-on banquet plus jousting, sword fighting, and falconry show.
Medieval Town of Toruń
Medieval Town of Toruń, a UNESCO World Heritage Site (1997) in northern Poland: Teutonic Castle ruins, Old and New Town on the Vistula, Hanseatic trading center, Copernicus birthplace.
Medieval university
Medieval university: the corporation of masters and students (universitas) that emerged at Bologna, Paris, and Oxford in the 11th-12th centuries, teaching arts, law, medicine, and theology in Latin, conferring degrees, and spreading to over 60 European institutions by 1500.
Medieval warfare
Medieval warfare in Europe from the fifth to the fifteenth century used land-based recruitment and fortifications, with gunpowder becoming decisive in the mid-fifteenth century.
Medieval Warm Period
The Medieval Warm Period, also called the Medieval Climate Anomaly, was an interval of relative warmth in parts of the North Atlantic region from roughly 950 to 1250 CE.
Medieval: Total War
Medieval: Total War (Medieval: Total War) is a 2002 Creative Assembly PC strategy game, second in the Total War series, combining turn-based campaign and real-time battles across 400 years of medieval Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.
MediEvil
MediEvil (MediEvil series) is Sony's 1998 PlayStation action-adventure starring undead knight Sir Daniel Fortesque fighting sorcerer Zarok in Gallowmere; sequels, a 2005 PSP remake, and a faithful 2019 PS4 remake by Other Ocean followed.
Medifoxamine
Medifoxamine (Clédial, Gerdaxyl) was an atypical antidepressant with dopaminergic and serotoninergic action, ATC N06AX13, marketed mainly in France and withdrawn in 1999 after hepatitis cases.
Medikabazaar
Medikabazaar is a Mumbai-based B2B e-commerce platform selling medical devices and hospital supplies to hospitals and clinics. Founded in 2015, it raised about $190 million and was valued near $700 million in 2022.
MediLink Therapeutics (宜联生物)
MediLink Therapeutics (宜联生物) is a Chinese biotechnology company based in Suzhou that develops antibody-drug conjugates on its proprietary TMALIN platform; it was founded in 2020 by three former Kelun Biotech executives.
Medina
Medina (المدينة المنورة), formerly Yathrib, is a holy city in the Hijaz, Saudi Arabia, where Muhammad made the hijra in 622 and is buried in the Prophet's Mosque, Islam's second holiest site, a pilgrimage and date-farming city of about 1.5 million.
Medina County, Ohio, United States
Medina County, Ohio, a northeastern Ohio county formed in 1812 from the Connecticut Western Reserve and organized 1818, named for Medina, Saudi Arabia; county seat Medina, 2020 population 182,470, between Cleveland and Akron.