Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Woman [in the 14th century] was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
No female iniquity was more severely condemned [in the 14th century] than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The ills and disorders of the 14th century could not be without consequence. Times were to grow worse over the next fifty-odd… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law [in the 14th century] prohibited innovation in tools or… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories [of the 14th century] are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share
We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“German soldiers, posted as informers, were found dressed as peasants, even as peasant women. The latter were discovered, presumably in the course of non-military… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share
I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians? I… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share
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