For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th…

We're entering a bionic era where we actually are beginning to see technology that's sophisticated enough to emulate key physiological functions.

— Hugh Herr

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

— Anonymous

Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical…

— Barbara Tuchman

No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for…

— Barbara Tuchman

The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and…

— Barbara Tuchman

I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.

— Julian Fellowes

The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell,…

— Barbara Tuchman

Now, father, you're living in the past. This is the 14th century! -Prince Phillip

— Sleeping Beauty

Health, money. That's what people worried about in the 14th century as much as today. I find it so much more interesting than the…

— Peter Ackroyd

The 500 years following the fall of the Western Roman Empire were dubbed by the poet Petrarch 'dark.' Although the 14th-century Italian was referring…

— Sarah Weinman

Woman [in the 14th century] was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.

— Barbara Tuchman

Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view…

— Barbara Tuchman

The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they…

— Barbara Tuchman

“Crop rotation in the 14th century was considerably more widespread after John?”

— Rik Mayall

No female iniquity was more severely condemned [in the 14th century] than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.

— Barbara Tuchman