And the medieval Japanese notions of honor and disgrace, so essential to the motives here, are forcibly shoehorned into context.

The two illness books are an attempt to rectify the human cost of these superstitious, medieval notions.

He said St. John's holds fast to the "medieval" notion that all knowledge is one and states that "the books they use are terribly hard."

The shack and the job he filled were located in the medieval notion of the physical appearance of hell.

"Christendom" has referred to the medieval and renaissance notion of the Christian world as a sociopolitical polity.

The medieval notion that St. John stands virtually for every believer has become quite general; thus, Mary is the mother of all the faithful.

His favourite pursuit was the art of war and, in this, he conformed to the medieval notion of good kingship.

But listen, she's the daughter of a friend of mine, and these colonial French have a medieval notion of what's proper.

Rumors of transfer have gotten about, and these people have confused medieval notions about that.

Is this not just a remnant of the past, a medieval notion that no longer applies to today's world?