A fantasy novel set in something other than medieval Europe, featuring an almost entirely black cast, is considered risky. — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“Memory of the elderly monk survived in the accounts of some of the greatest leaders in medieval Europe, along with lengthy accounts… — Michael Rank Copy Share Image
I love the standard fantasy setting of Medieval England and Medieval Europe, but I wanted to go somewhere different. — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“n medieval Europe, a new slave would place his head under his master’s arm, and have a strap placed around his neck,… — David Livingstone Smith Copy Share Image
“In popular modern usage, the word grimoire refers specifically to a set of medieval European magickal texts (notebooks, journals, and teaching aids)… — Aaron Leitch Copy Share Image
“Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Slavery ended in medieval Europe only because the church extended its sacraments to all slaves and then managed to impose a ban… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
“Trickster foxes appear in old stories gathered from countries and cultures all over the world -- including Aesop's Fables from ancient Greece,… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“SCIENCE AROSE ONLY IN Europe because only medieval Europeans believed that science was possible and desirable. And the basis of their belief… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
“Beneath the pseudo-scientific terminology one can in each case recognize a phantasy of which almost every element is to be found in… — Norman Cohn Copy Share Image
“The dominance of the man on horseback was challenged during the fourteenth century in what some historians call the infantry revolution. English… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
America did not need to be discovered because quite simply America had the American-Indians. There were whole groups of people that already… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
“The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“Many real-world Northwestern endonyms have European origins, such as “Portland,” “Victoria,” “Bellingham,” and “Richland.” To address this phenomenon while also contributing a… — Sylvester Olson Copy Share Image
In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally… — Robert Paul Weston Copy Share Image
“I was suicidal for two solid centuries once. That was during the early part of what they now call the Dark Ages,… — Gene Doucette Copy Share Image
No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“Our interpreting the universe as an artifact absolutely requires that we posit an author for it, or a celestial fimmaker, dramatist, painter,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem.… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Brandon McCsw says the Western civilization was created in medieval Europe for the forms of thought and action in Modern Europe and… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
“The figures for 2002 are even more surprising. Out of 57 million dead, only 172,000 people died in war and 569,000 died… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Mary’s Fingerprints The most significant era where her fingerprints have been left is medieval Europe. The word medieval today has many negative… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
