Quotes of: Medieval Keyword

An illiterate king is a crowned ass.

Medieval English

As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and worthless than any other game, rarely ending but with some loss, accident or disadvantage to the playe...

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment.

Laurence Housman

Cultivate a passion for truth. Pursue a life of charity. Enjoy the beauty found in every day.

Seeking The Truth - A Medieval Romance

Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception.

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

Considering that Timur had ignored every instrument of government except terror, it is remarkable his immediate successors managed to retain control of most of his empire.

The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History

Probably every lover imagines that his own love is pure, and that others love like beasts.

The Cruelest Month: Spring, Nature, and Love in Classical and Medieval Lyrics

Historical reality has two sides. One is made ​​up of facts, events, material realities, and one of the ideas, images and dreams.

The Medieval Imagination

Language is the medium of literature, and the state of the language at any time can hardly fail to carry literary consequences.

Medieval Writers and Their Work: Middle English Literature and Its Background 1100-1500

Slavery ended in medieval Europe only because the church extended its sacraments to all slaves and then managed to impose a ban on the enslavement of Christians (and of Jews). Within the context of medieval Europe, that prohibition was effectively a ...

Rodney Stark

Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and ...

Janine di Giovanni

But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that potential genius can never become actual unless it finds or makes the Form which it requires.

The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition

Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.

R. W. Apple, Jr.

In this sense, Byzantine culture embodies the French historian Fernand Braudel's notion of the , the long term: that which survives the vicissitudes of changing governments, newfangled fashions or technological improvements, an ongoing inheritance th...

Byzantium: The Surprising Life Of A Medieval Empire

A man can lead a reasonably full life without a family, a fixed local residence, or a religious affiliation, but if he is stateless he is nothing. He has no rights, no security, and little opportunity for a useful career. There is no salvation on ear...

On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State

You might find it alarming to think that your doctor will not actually need to see you in person but might make a diagnosis based on the position of the stars, the colour and smell of your urine, and the taste of your blood.

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

Medieval learning was really advanced.

Terry Jones

You might be offered oatcakes as well as bread (especially in the north). If these do not tempt you, consider eating "horse-bread." This is made from a sort of flour of ground peas, bran, and beans–if contemporaries look at you strangely, it is bec...

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

Such planetary alignments are thought to lead to local miasmas: concentrations of fetid air and noxious vapors. These miasmas are then blown on the wind and enter men's and women's bodies through the pores of their skin. once inside they disrupt the ...

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

I listen to a lot of medieval music.

Grimes

Medieval justice was a quaint thing.

Frederick Pollock