Best Quote by Laurence Housman

Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.

— Wojciech Jaruzelski

I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.

— Tamora Pierce

“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

“The whole appeal of medieval studies - the language, the literature, the history, the art and architecture - to immerse oneself in that world.…

— David Szalay

I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th…

— Oliver Stone

It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts and so…

— Sebastian Faulks

“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

“The other-worldly meanings medieval people found in their lives were no more deluded than the modern humanist, nationalist and capitalist meanings modern people find.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.

— Barbara Tuchman

The 'Middle Ages/Dark Ages' were of course no such thing. Achievement in the Arabian crescent was sensational then.

— Bettany Hughes

We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about…

— Terry Jones

There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that…

— Anonymous