History Quote by Kenneth A. Mathews

“Only an obstinate prejudice about this period (which I will presently try to account for) could blind us to a certain change which comes…

— C.S. Lewis

“You mean, the good old days of the fourteenth century.”

— Bobby Akart

“life in western Europe in 1500 was very different from what it had been even 50 years earlier.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

“They were ancient history. They were so ancient they made ancient history look modern. Well, okay . . . maybe medieval.”

— Roberta Pearce

“The Bronze Age was such a third-place era.”

— Jarod Kintz

“There is a remarkable degree of consistency in the way mediaeval literature affirms humanity. With all its faults, humanity emerges as more realistic than…

— Ronald Carter

“Diamond writes: “We have to wonder why the kings and nobles failed to recognize and solve these seemingly obvious problems undermining their society. Their…

— Douglas Preston

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art…

— Walter Pater

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

— Walter Pater

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed that by what it achieved.

— Walter Pater

To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this…

— Bertrand Russell

I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period…

— Howard Hodgkin