Quotes About Medieval

Sir Steven Runciman, whose history of the Crusades is an imperishable work, because it demonstrates that medieval Christian fundamentalism not only constituted a menace to Islamic civilization but also directly resulted in the sack of Byzantium, the retardation of Europe, and the massacre of the Jews.

But we most of us lose our sense of proportion in the presence of a nun; and George, thus exposed at short range to this bride of Christ in her uncompromising medieval habit, finds himself becoming flustered, defensive. An unwilling conscript in Hell's legions, he faces the soldier of Heaven across the front-line of an exceedingly polite cold war.

In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.

Ya no logro distinguir cuáles son las diferencias accidentales de los valdenses, los cátaros, los pobres de Lyon, los humillados, los begardos, los terciarios, los lombardos, los joaquinistas, los patarinos, los apostólicos, los pobres de Lombardía, los arnaldistas, los guillermitas, los seguidores del espíritu libre y los luciferinos.

Qué lector modelo quería yo mientras escribía? Un cómplice, sin duda, que entrase en mi juego. Lo que yo quería era volverme totalmente medieval y vivir en el Medievo como si fuese mi época (y viceversa).

I began writing in March of 1978, prodded by a seminal idea: I felt like poisoning a monk.

The crusades were carried out in virtuous bad faith.

es verdad, la cultura medieval tiene el sentido de la innovación, pero se las ingenia para esconderlo bajo el disfraz de la repetición (al contrario de la cultura moderna, que finge innovar incluso cuando repite).

The two friends set out towards Eve's Apple. It is unnecessary to mention that they had first gathered up the money, and that the archdeacon followed them.

a Breton archer from the guard of Monsieur de Berry.

Miniver loved the days of old When swords were bright and steeds were prancing; The vision of a warrior bold. Would set him dancing. Miniver sighed for what was not, And dreamed, and rested from his labors; He dreamed of Thebes and Camelot, And Priam's neighbors. EDWIN A. ROBINSON

Kaitlyn is that kind of girl that might be too interesting, might tempt you to get involved... A girl who challenged him, who could be my equal... Her mind was a place of blue pools and blazing meteors... She stood slim and proud as some medival witch princess against dawn." -Gabriel

She stood slim and proud as some medieval witch princess against dawn.

Les mille ans du Moyen-âge ont été la durée du grand deuil Chrétien.

He apparently intends to pass the castle on to his eldest daughter.' 'His daughter?' This was news to Pagan. Colin shrugged. 'They're Scots,' he said, as if that would explain it all.

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

Kenneth Tynan: What is your major vice? Orson Welles: Accidia — the medieval Latin word for melancholy, and sloth. I don't give way to it for long, but it still comes lurching at me out of the shadows.

He rained upon it curses from God and High Heaven, and withered it with a heat of invective that savoured of a medieval excommunication of the Catholic Church. He ran the gamut of denunciation, rising to heights of wrath that were sublime and almost Godlike.

Madouc took up the manure fork and raised it on high. Pymfyd dodged and threw his arm over his head. 'What are you up to?' 'Patience, Pymfyd! This tool symbolises a sword of fine steel!' Madouc touched the fork to Pymfyd's head. 'For notable valour on the field of combat, I dub you Sir Pom-pom, and by this title shall you be known henceforth. Arise, Sir Pom-pom! In my eyes, at least, you have proved your mettle!

Kepler was, as author Arthur Koestler called him, the "watershed" where the medieval world finally gave way to the modern.

Uncle Tom's Cabin, then, is activated by what might be called a theological terror, the terror of damnation; and the spirit that breathes in this book, hot, self-righteous, fearful, is not different from that spirit of medieval times which sought to exorcize evil by burning witches; and is not different from that terror which activates a lynch mob.

Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.

An unemployed court jester is nobody's fool.

I love the standard fantasy setting of Medieval England and Medieval Europe, but I wanted to go somewhere different.