Quotes About Medieval history

in the year 1096, European Christians heeded the call of Pope Urban II to liberate Palestine from the hands of the Muslim infidels. On their way to the Holy Land, the Crusaders encountered Rhineland Jewish communities and, without Church warrant, set about to destroy those whom they held responsible for the crime of deicide (the murder of Jesus). A number of Jewish communities (Speyer, Worms, and Mainz) were destroyed, and perhaps as many as thousands of Jews

Thus began what was later termed the Hundred Years' War, which was soon under way from Scotland to the Pyrenees, with repercussions in Germany, Italy and even the Muslim world, as a projected Anglo-French Crusade was abandoned.66 Neither France nor England was prepared for the spiralling demands of this war. Edward

Urban formally announced what would become the First Crusade in the town of Clermont Ferrand

The book is Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire, 1158–1203, by Judith A. Everard

From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.

Throughout the Middle Ages, the Mohammedans were more civilized and more humane than the Christians. Christians persecuted Jews, especially at times of religious excitement; the Crusades were associated with appalling pogroms. In Mohammedan countries, on the contrary, Jews were not in any way ill treated.

If 'Game Of Thrones' hadn't been made, I don't think 'The Last Kingdom' would have been, but this is more grounded in real life.

Joan of Arc was their patron saint, and I heard that they died out in part because girls were required to join by the time they were fifteen.

The Middle Ages have served as a historical arena within which two schools of thought have done battle—one school accusing the medieval church of actively opposing the advancement of scientific learning, the other praising the medieval church and its theology for laying a foundation that made modern science possible.

The Fourth Crusade was an epic clusterfuck a comic-opera misadventure a tragic saga with farcical elements.

Arguably, the only fruit of the Crusades kept by the Christians was the apricot.

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.

Rodney Stark puts it this way: "To expect to learn anything about important theological problems from Richard Dawkins or Daniel Dennett is like expecting to learn about medieval history from someone who had only read Robin Hood.

I've always been interested in a lot of the medieval art portraying people being tormented.

Abbey of Cluny

The 'heathen men' who attacked Lindisfarne in the summer of 793 are better known today as the vikings,

the story of Offa's rise to power is frustratingly obscure.

this year,' says the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 794, 'Offa, king of the Mercians, had Æthelberht beheaded.

Two were works of Gregory the Great,

died in 735, a generation before Offa's accession.

Æthelred made an invaluable contribution to the war effort by dropping dead, clearing the way for Edmund to succeed him.

As Bede explains in his book The Reckoning of Time,

But Æthelstan was less fortunate in death than Cuthbert, and during the Reformation his remains were destroyed

Æthelwold wrote up their conclusions in a document known as the Regularis Concordia