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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
modern/classical/medieval etc architecture
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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early
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It now seems probable that there were more churches in late Saxon and early medieval times than was formerly thought.
■ NOUN
architecture
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The foundation of the Camden Society in 1839 had promoted much more careful study of medieval architecture .
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Meksi was by profession a construction engineer and former restorer of medieval architecture .
art
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Most of Gebrüder Mann's new publications are on medieval art however.
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Nicholas is a veritable treasury of relics and medieval art .
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If so, Parler's is the first self-portrait known in medieval art .
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In working life he is a Boeing 747 pilot and he also gave an in-depth demonstration on the blood curdling medieval art .
building
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Instead it looked to our medieval buildings , our castles and churches, and to the wilds of Westmorland.
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Whilst surveying land for new railways, he began measuring and drawing medieval buildings .
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The examples here were originally memorial slabs from a church existing on the site before the Norman and medieval buildings .
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All the medieval buildings were torn down and replaced by stone built ones, with red pantiled roofs.
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In the town centre, almost all the medieval buildings were destroyed in the Great Fire of 1675.
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Kitzbuhel is an ancient fortified town with fine medieval buildings .
castle
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This has opened the way for what has become the largest excavation of a medieval castle yet in Britain.
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History lives on in the towns of Framlingham and Orford each with its own splendid medieval castle .
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On the third night, Sylvia was chosen to accompany a punter into the medieval castle .
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The wooded gardens lie beneath the Verdala Palace, a moated medieval castle .
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She entered the theme room, which was decked out to look like the great hall of a medieval castle .
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Evidently a medieval castle had been built on the site of an Iron Age fort.
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He had looked forward to living in a medieval castle and felt slightly cheated.
cathedral
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Along the waterways was carried most of the stone required to build our medieval cathedrals .
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The south-facing house is situated in one of the oldest streets in Ely and boasts superb views of the medieval cathedral .
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The capital of the region is Elgin with its ruined medieval cathedral .
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Easily Accessible: Ely is an ancient market town famous for its magnificent medieval cathedral and stained glass museum.
church
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In doing so, they continued the flexibility in intellectual speculation that had begun in certain quarters in the medieval Church .
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At home the prevailing taste was for more picturesque remains, ruined abbeys and medieval churches .
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For example, the glass in the ancient windowpanes of medieval churches flows even though it is a solid.
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Villages are unspoilt, usually built around a medieval church with a stork's nest on top.
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There is also an instructive history in the condemnation and prohibition of books by the medieval church .
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Burton, which has the large medieval church , is a very small hamlet.
city
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Bucharest is not some medieval city surrounded by walls, says George Roman, head of Save the Children.
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So Doyle got the ferry back to the mainland and drove quickly to the attractive, still-recognisably medieval city of Winchester.
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These were the glittering and opulent reminders of the medieval city .
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It started with William standing alone in the middle of a street in a typical medieval city .
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The fine medieval city of Norwich, 17 miles away, has a cathedral, castle and market.
glass
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Excavations of other medieval glass furnaces have sometimes revealed a better degree of preservation.
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It was only in 1849 that the chemical formulae for medieval glass were rediscovered, and later published, by Charles Winston.
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Work has so far included research into early medieval glass beads which provides supporting evidence for the fragmentary work on vessel glass.
guild
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St. Martin's church and its medieval guild were responsible at some stage for providing the bull.
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What broke the medieval guilds was printing; some one could publish a treatise on how to tan leather.
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As with medieval guilds , non-members could not officially practise their trade.
history
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They are two of the most colourful and exciting figures in the whole of medieval history .
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Until 1939 he continued to teach medieval history , giving tutorials that often lasted for a couple of hours.
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Although my subject is medieval history , we used to read and discuss all history from biblical times onward.
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But her abiding passions were medieval history and archaeology which she continued to study all her life.
king
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The households of early medieval kings were simple affairs; the permanent staff was small.
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And everyone knows that really he is advising medieval kings and nineteenth-century Prime Ministers.
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One of the chief functions of an early medieval king was the enforcement of justice.
literature
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His principal area of research is medieval literature .
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Be that as it may, it was here mat Lewis began to build up his encyclopaedic knowledge of late medieval literature .
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These stages, linked to the known planets, can be traced back through medieval literature to the ancients.
manuscript
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Many medieval manuscripts have decorated borders filled with comic animals and birds and people.
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It comprises an extensive accumulation of medieval manuscripts , and a number of antiquarian collections.
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It was perfect, like the letter-high illuminations in a medieval manuscript .
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Similar techniques have been used on the fire-damaged medieval manuscripts of our Cotton collection.
period
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The first rooms here contain very fine collections of stove tiles from the medieval period and the Renaissance.
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For the medieval period there is more information.
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With the end of the medieval period , however, a gradual shift in viewpoint took place.
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Apart from the Roman remains, Avenches preserves interesting buildings from the medieval period .
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Initially the latter two metals only occur in alloys as they were not generally isolated in metallic form until the medieval period .
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Although some Roman keys do have a vertical bow, keys from the Saxon and medieval periods rarely employ a horizontal bow.
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Church architecture of the medieval period demonstrates a high level of awareness of the effect of form on consciousness.
society
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Their purpose was a practical one; medieval societies required professionals in those fields.
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Monastic worship shaped the religious feeling of early medieval society more than did any other single factor.
street
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Altogether a most attractive and unspoilt city, it has some pretty medieval streets , some of which are pedestrianised.
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Two minutes in its unplanned, crooked, medieval streets reveal that it is a more vibrant, cheerful and successful place.
times
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In medieval times , professional perfumers would concoct personal scents for their clients from six to eight special ingredients.
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Joseph Campbell once said that in medieval times , as you approached the city, your eye was taken by the cathedral.
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In medieval times , bringing corn to the mill was the responsibility of the customer.
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They wore black masks and held what were meant to look like large axes, from medieval times .
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It was the corruption of the Roman Catholic clergy in medieval times that paved the way for the Reformation.
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Dent is a throwback to medieval times bypassed by modern progress, an anachronism that has survived the passing years.
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In medieval times this was raised to an art.
town
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Some, like Pesaro and Senigallia, have grown up around medieval towns and still retain old-world charm.
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I could have queried whether the castle was going to be part of an entire medieval town .
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All are within easy reach of Gubbio which is among the best restored medieval towns in Umbria.
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I try to picture the basilica and the beautiful little medieval town of Assisi, tucked into the side of Mount Subasio.
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The Hotel Girasole in Bormio 2000, high above the medieval town of Bormio, is the perfect destination for pre-teen skiers.
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The latter was probably always more important, for medieval towns such as Stamford and Grantham lay on its line.
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Nor is the road between, say, Salisbury and Winchester necessarily medieval just because it now links the two medieval towns .
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Nowhere is that symbiosis better expressed than in the medieval towns and villages.
village
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And nearby are the remains of a deserted medieval village .
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This is in the form of a full size reproduction of a medieval village , placed in extensive parkland.
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One surprise has been the lack of Saxon settlements beneath the medieval villages which have been excavated.
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Beyond the cathedral and the little churches, visitors can walk up the mountainside to the tiny, medieval village of Scala.
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The route then heads north to the medieval village of Wharram Percy before cutting east towards the coast at Filey Brigg.
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In Sussex there are known to be some 43 sites of deserted medieval villages .
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Cosmeston medieval Village A deserted medieval village gradually being uncovered by archaeologists.
wall
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Stretches of the medieval walls still stand.
world
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Unquestionably it was ancient Rome's greatest legacy to the medieval world , greater probably even than its literature and its poetry.
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The notion that the papacy should be above politics would have made no sense to the people of the medieval world .
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The whole of year 7 could be devoted to the medieval world but can not be.
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He really wanted to get back to a medieval world and he thought Buckingham should be a symbol of that world.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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medieval art
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medieval Europe
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Civil rights groups complained that the law was "racist and medieval ."
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The plumbing in this house is medieval !
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This so-called accounting system is positively medieval .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Feminist scholars popularized the writings of medieval mystics such as Julian of Norwich and Hildegard of Bingen.
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In a medieval sense, the toilet yearns to keep itself full by means of this automatic plumbing.
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It now seems probable that there were more churches in late Saxon and early medieval times than was formerly thought.
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She parried with a weapon that turned out to be a medieval axe.
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The medieval judges served the Church and the king and were the instruments by which the people were dominated.
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The Renaissance destroys the medieval unity of vision.
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To look up at the towering medieval universe is much more like looking at a great building.
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You can have a medieval gothic monstrosity in the middle of your otherwise pleasant townscape.