Quotes About Influence

In a word, a historical phenomenon can never be understood apart from its moment in time. This is true of ever evolutionary stage, our own and all others. As the old Arab proverb has it: 'Men resemble their times more than they do their fathers.

Dans le cercle du pouvoir, il n'y a aucun secret, seulement des types qui font semblant de ne pas savoir.

The music we listen to, the books we read, the television programs we watch, all communicate to us a philosophy of life.

If you are a parent, how do you differentiate offering your children advice and guidance from imposing your dreams upon them?

Mercia was the last of the major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to emerge.

and an eastern half that included the Balkans, Greece, Palestine and Egypt.

from Roman Britain to the Norman Conquest, without being selective.

with the newcomers in control of some areas and the pre-existing population in control of others.

the Irish were starting to colonize the western seaboard of what is now Scotland

creating a new kingdom called Dal Riata – a maritime empire

Here our best guide is once again the Venerable Bede,

In his scheme, Mercia would not simply dominate neighbouring kingdoms; it would annex them,

the medium-sized kingdom was squeezed and carved up by its bigger, more powerful neighbours,

he was extremely powerful – arguably the most powerful of all the English kings before the Norman Conquest.

and in British culture they saw nothing they wished to emulate.

Kings raised armies by looking to the support of other powerful men

in English.

the bishop was indeed conducting himself like a second king.

The likeliest answer is that, by the time the Saxons came to settle in Britain, they found little that was worth preserving.

her the title of queen, which was something not customary before then to him or to his people'.

Æthelwold took it upon himself to tour them all, laying down the standards of behaviour he expected

whatever their ancestry – assumed all this would last forever, for the empire was eternal.

Queen Ælfthryth 'should be the protectress and fearless guardian of the communities of nuns'.

In East Anglia, as we've seen, Rædwald was talked out of Christianity by his wife and advisers.