Medieval Culture Quotes

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

Beginning in the 11th century, a less-fragmented Europe began to take shape, and what we now call medieval culture - in which literature and learning made a noticeable rebound - spread through much of the territory Rome had once dominated.

I'm sure you can even find ménage à trois in medieval tales.

I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested in how cathedrals were built, and from there I became interested in the society that built the medieval cathedral. It occurred to me at some point that the story of the building of a cathedral could be a great popular novel.

I loved medieval architecture when I was very small; I don't know why.

Knights would have probably liked refrigerator magnets.

Our culture will become like it was during the medieval times when there truly was a cultural elite. The rest of the people will just watch television, which will be their only frame of reference.

'Game of Thrones' is a fantasy show not dedicated to any specific time, but it seems to exist in sort of a 1400s medieval fantasy world, and in that setting, I wouldn't have had a six-pack.

In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare.

Viking women, if they were left behind, were ruling their town. They were earls in their own right; they owned land in their own right. They could divorce their husbands if they wanted to. All of those wonderful allowances that were made for women in the Viking culture weren't really part of the Christian culture at the time.

I read a lot of Icelandic sagas when I was young. I've always been interested in the Viking culture.

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

King René of Anjou [(1409-80)]was a strange compound of amiable, great and trifling qualities. He was so excellent a sovereign as to acquire the surnom of the Good. He was brave in war, delighted in tournaments and wrote on them, instituted festivals and processions, partly religious and partly burlesque, was a fond husband, a romantic lover, a good painter for that age, and a true philosopher.

The Isle of Man managed to slip through a crack in the space-time continuum...fallen off the back of the history lorry to lie amnesiac in the road to progress...its main industry is money (laundering, pressing, altering and mending)...The weather’s foul, the food’s medieval, it’s covered in suicidal motorists and folk who believe in fairies

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This [is] another instance of the strange mixture of religion and gallantry in those ages.

And, the sets that they built are just so beautiful. It's like going to a completely foreign country and experiencing a new culture that you've never seen before, especially at Camelot. It's just so magical. Personally, it's just so much more interesting than wearing jeans and a t-shirt, and walking around somebody else's house.

I am not in any way opposed to medieval studies (or for that matter Latin).

'Simeon's Gift' is really - it's about a musician who - in the Middle Ages, who goes out to find his muse.

[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.