Especially in his early plays, he was drawing on dramatic conventions that can be traced back to medieval forms of theater.
The series depicts medieval forms of execution, including the wheel and the saw.
The influence of Ruskin had stimulated him to a pleasure in the medieval forms.
Today a very active group of local residents is slowly restoring the stone façades in an effort to restore the city to its medieval form.
The old medieval forms of faith no longer brought comfort, since they could not function clearly in these altered circumstances.
The laity were especially dissatisfied with the medieval forms of religion that no longer answered their needs in the brave new world.
By that time, the change was purely procedural, but it also freed the substantive law from the old medieval forms of action.
Many of these words were borrowed directly from Latin, both in its classical and medieval forms.
In its final medieval form, the church was mainly a Perpendicular-style structure of late 14th and early 15th-century date.
This shows an open-walled public market (a traditional medieval form) on the ground floor.