As an ex-professor of nerve surgery in Budapest's University and leading hospitals, the whole medieval conception of interrogation is intensely distasteful.
"This is actually a very medieval conception of jurisdiction: Your rights are carried with you as you travel from one place to another," Professor Lessig said.
The anti-Christian ideas of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries led to a complete break with the medieval Christian conception of society and the state.
Thus, Anselm's view can best be understood from medieval feudalistic conceptions of authority, of sanctions and of reparation.
Courtly love was a medieval European conception of nobly and chivalrously expressing love and admiration.
His physical appearance is based on popular modern and medieval conceptions of Satan.
The medieval conception of wrongs to chattels was based upon a physical interference with possession.
The Council of Constance confirmed and strengthened the traditional medieval conception of church and empire.
Distorted accounts of apes may have contributed to both the ancient and medieval conception of the wild man.
Finally, I am shocked by several medieval conceptions reflected in some amendments to this report put forward by some colleagues on sexual and reproductive health matters.
