Age Quote by Barbara Tuchman

The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.

— Francis Schaeffer

Perhaps the main, as well as the least obvious, achievement of the Middle Ages, was the creation of the experimental spirit, or more exactly…

— George Sarton

The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason.…

— Ayn Rand

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.

— Lytton Strachey

“The Middle Ages were long preoccupied with the nature of the concept, or of the notion which the intellect abstracts from the object; but…

— Étienne Gilson

“Popular opinion, journalistic cliché and misinformed historians notwithstanding, recent research has shown that the Middle Ages was a period of enormous advances in science,…

— James Hannam

For us, when we think about the Middle Ages, it's sort of this rarefied, distant time that we have no connection to, especially if…

— Jeff Baena

“The Middle Ages have served as a historical arena within which two schools of thought have done battle—one school accusing the medieval church of…

— Gary B. Ferngren

“This is not a matter of compromises or adaptations. The power of a new Middle Ages is needed. A change, interior as well as…

— Julius Evola

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is - I really scarce know…

— Lord Byron

The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split that opened…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.

— John Kennedy Toole