The ills and disorders of the 14th century could not be…

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

To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law [in the 14th century] prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling…

— Barbara Tuchman

The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through…

— Barbara Tuchman

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

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

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

While husbands and lovers in the stories [of the 14th century] are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers:…

— Barbara Tuchman

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

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

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

— Rik Mayall

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

— Sleeping Beauty