Finimedieval / tardomedieval 22:48 May 18, 2019
This refers to a building so late that it is stretching a point considerably to call it medieval at all. By 1500 we are already in the Renaissance or Early Modern period. The use of this term presumably reflects the fact that the building was in an archaic "medieval" (Gothic) style, so calling it an "edificio renacentista", though correct chronologically, would be inappropriate in stylistic terms.
"Finimedieval" is not quite the same as "tardomedieval". The latter means late-medieval, that is, belonging to the Late Middle Ages, which is the term historians use for the period roughly from 1250 to 1500 (the Baja Edad Media in Spanish). "Finimedieval" normally means very end of that subdivision: the fifteenth century. A more accurate translation would be "of/at the (very) end of the Middle Ages", but that would be a awkward here, in the title, and I would stretch a point and use "late-medieval". In isolation it would be a bit misleading, since it normally suggests a building up to 250 years earlier than this, but since the dates are given there's no harm done. |