Quotes About Medieval

Once a religious institution acquired a charter (or boc) from the king,

Similar structures were built elsewhere at places like Portchester, Pevensey and Caister-on-Sea,

The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.

In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally common.

One could see that the ideas which the mediaeval artist and the mediaeval peasant (who had survived to cook for us in the nineteenth century) had of classical and of early Christian history, ideas whose inaccuracy was atoned for by their honest simplicity, were derived not from books, but from a tradition at once ancient and direct, unbroken, oral, degraded, unrecognisable, and alive.

Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.

Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.

The ascetism of early Christianity, which turned its back on the world of the flesh, had degrenerated, in some quarters of the Church, into hatred of those who those who brought that flesh into being. Misogyny, the hatred of women, had become a strong element in medieval Christianity. Women who menstruate, and give birth, were identified with sexuality and therefore with evil. All witchcraft stems from carnal lust, which is in women insatiable, stated the Malleus Maleficarum.

September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old stuff. The conflicts we now face or fear involve opposed geographical arenas, but also opposed centuries or even millennia. It is a landscape of ferocious anachronisms: nuclear jihad in the Indian subcontinent; the medieval agonism of Islam; the Bronze Age blunderings of the Middle East.

In The Prince he says that "a just war is a necessary war," thus cutting through the Gordian knot formed by endless Medieval discussions of Just War from Saint Augustine to Saint Thomas Aquinas.

Where classical and medieval rhetorical pragmatism diverges from modern, I think, is in assigning a crucial role to a notion of common memory, accessed by an individual through education, which acts to "complete" uninformed individual experience.

Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.

eight Muscovite Princes from Daniel (1260) to the death of Vasili (1462),

over a hundred towns had combined together in what was called the "Hanseatic League." This

recognize you Ã¢â'¬Â¦." "We're just visiting," said Annie. "But we know all about you. You're Sir Lancelot, aren't you?" "Yes," breathed the knight. "And Sir Percival and Sir Galahad," said Jack. "Yes Ã¢â'¬Â¦ my son, Galahad Ã¢â'¬Â¦ ," said the knight. "King Arthur thinks you are lost forever," said Annie.

Through inhabiting the Christian narrative, we come to see ourselves, as the medieval writer Julian of Norwich famously put it, as being enfolded in the love of Christ, which brings us a new security, identity, and value. Our self-worth is grounded in being loved by God.

Of all the Grail romances the most famous, and the most artistically significant, is Parzival, composed sometime between 1195 and 1216.

the Ordre de Sion was founded by Godfroi de Bouillon in 1090

Among the most popular and evocative of medieval myths is that of Lohengrin, the "Swan Knight.

The Templars were sworn to poverty, chastity, and obedience.

Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington

Cairo is an exploding modern metropolis which nevertheless preserves within its heart the finest medieval city in the world...

And who could forget the sixteenth-century popular Parisian pastime of cat burning, in which a terrified feline was gradually lowered into a fire while "spectators, including kings and queens, shrieked with laughter as the animals, howling with pain, were singed, roasted, and finally carbonized.

As the medieval historian Richard Kieckhefer notes, the people of medieval Europe thought of magic as rational for two reasons: "first of all, that it could actually work (that its efficacy was shown by evidence recognized within the culture as authentic) and, secondly, that its workings were governed by principles (of theology or of physics) that could be coherently articulated.