A philosophical or cultural stance that opposes or rejects medieval characteristics, institutions, or ways of thinking in favor of modernism or different values.
Formed from 'antimedieval' with the suffix '-ism,' creating a systematic ideology. This term is primarily academic and emerged in discussions of intellectual history and philosophy.
The entire Enlightenment movement was basically antimedievalism on a massive scale—philosophers deliberately created the myth of 'the Dark Ages' to justify their new rational, scientific worldview.
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