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middle_ages
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[ noun ] (medieval,history) the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance
Synonyms Used in print (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)This conception was taken_up by the early Church_Fathers and by canon lawyers and theologians in the Middle_Ages ; and More was far too well_read not to have come_across it in one or several of the forms thus given it . Finally , the conception of the natural community of all possessions which originated with the Stoics was firmly fixed in a tradition by More 's time , although it was not accepted by all the theologian philosophers of the Middle_Ages . |
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