Talk:Medieval (term)

See also WikiProject Middle Ages/British spelling of Medieval for further discussion.

This article is essentially a dictionary definition, perhaps it can be expanded? I dont know. --Stbalbach 18:04, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

It's a little more than a dictionary definition. Unless maybe you mean the OED, which includes quotes and other expansive material. At any rate, it will serve as an eddy, collecting anything memetically medieval that doesn't fit the history-based context of Middle Ages. It would be most proper if the actual page at medieval were this page, or a true disambiguation page, but the sheer number of links to  medieval  that really should be  medieval  is too large to be fixed without a bot or a project... --216.237.179.238 18:37, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

This is getting pretty ridiculous. There is no way that this needs a separate page. "Medieval" is the corresponding adjective for "middle ages" and the only proper place for a discussion of the word "medieval" is on the Middle Ages page. Also, I wish people would understand that "æ" is not a separate letter in Latin, it's just a ligature of "ae" (which is also, of course, not a separate letter). Adam Bishop 19:03, 7 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I agree. I said the same thing at the Medieval page discussion. But I can see a case being made for a separate article if it develops. But, IMO, so long as Medieval redirects to Middle Ages thats %90 of it. re: ae, I just went by what the wikipedia article said on ae, if its incorrect please correct, it's all greek to me :) --19:10, 7 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Well, there is also the problem that our alphabet is called the "Latin alphabet", and as the "ae" page says, it is a separate letter, in English...or it used to be in Old English, at least. It's not a letter in the Latin language itself - look at the inscription on Trajan's column for example. Anyway, that's just one minor problem, making this a separate page is of course the bigger problem... Adam Bishop 20:18, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Love the para about Biondo. Makes this much more encyclopedic. I've put mediæval back in parallel with the other two spellings, for structure's sake. 216.237.179.238 20:33, 7 December 2005 (UTC)