Quotes about Middle ages

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In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagin — Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose
There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages. — Richard Lederer, Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language
Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just — Michela Wrong, In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, — Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
...Prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the pleasure of it and th — George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
Those who like to interpret historical facts symbolically may recognize in this the spirit of a specifically "modern" co — Erwin Panofsky, Meaning in the Visual Arts
What I want to know is, in the Middle Ages, did they do anything for Housemaid's Knee? What did they put in their hot ba — H.G. Wells, Tono-Bungay
we refer to the Middle Ages as ages of faith; a time in which men believed a heavenly Jerusalem above the sky much as th — Jocelyn Gibb, Light on C. S. Lewis
The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to fear. — George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind o — Hermann Weyl
The more formidable the contradiction between inexhaustible life-joy and inevitable fate, the greater the longing which — Ferdinand Cohn
The hard truths are the ones to hold tight. - Old Bear — George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight a — Will Durant
Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another — they were marvelously inconsistent.
Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of — Andrew Bernstein
The rising influence of lay piety is particularly marked upon the Mariological controversies of the late medieval period — The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation
It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by t — Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
In the early twelfth century century the Virgin had been the supreme protectress of civilisation. She had taught a race — Kenneth Clark, Civilisation
How much easier it is to be poor than rich. — Lois Leveen, Juliet's Nurse
I know Verona as I do my own body. — Lois Leveen, Juliet's Nurse