Definition of "mediæval"

In that position she might have been an effigy on some mediæval tomb such as the Marshal had so often seen.

1993, Magdalen Nabb, chapter 10, in The Marshal at the Villa Torrini, HarperCollins, page 176

This embraces all mediæval societies between the ninth and twelfth centuries, as its advocates intended.

2006, Noel Cox, “Dark Age and Mediæval Europe”, in Technology and Legal Systems, Ashgate Publishing, part II (The Relationship of Government and Technology), section 6 (Changes in the Past), page 132