Nowadays, Montfort-sur-Meu kept the vestiges of its medieval past.
The museum and cobblers' guild, which has its roots in the city's medieval past, were moved here shortly after the civil war.
It still has picturesque remnants of its medieval past, including city walls and several houses dating from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries.
Meanwhile those children are dreaming up an operetta set in the chateau's imagined medieval past.
Another common status symbol of the European medieval past was heraldry, a display of one's family name and history.
The Gothic romance, a type of novel, was usually set in the medieval past and involved the fantastic and the supernatural.
Nottingham is relatively unusual among big manufacturing cities in Britain in having a medieval and pre-industrial past of equal importance to its more recent one.
The 18th century marked an increasing interest in England's medieval past.
It seemed some monster out of the medieval past had captured me, and dragged me out of the civilized city.
He had worked for a better future trying to free us from chains of medieval past.