Middle ages Quote by John Ralston Saul

The political and social processes by which the Western European societies were put in order are not very apparent, have been forgotten, or have…

— Michel Foucault

Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world…

— Albert Camus

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the…

— John Howe

Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that…

— Dario Fo

Europe has never been a monolithic space, it contains a lot of people, a lot of languages and infinite supplies of history. I didn't…

— Aleksandar Hemon

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

Beginning in the 11th century, a less-fragmented Europe began to take shape, and what we now call medieval culture - in which literature and…

— Sarah Weinman

The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music,…

— Fredric Jameson

Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known.

— Ruth Benedict

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in…

— Aldous Huxley

To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view.

— Bertrand Russell

“Contrary to the central belief of multiculturalists, Western culture has achieved far more than other cultures in many significant spheres and has done so…

— Nicholas Wade