Century Quote by Oliver Stone

I have been interested in the 12th century since my 20s when it was very fashionable to say of anybody with whom you disagreed,…

— Yitzhak Rabin

I realised that today we are very much interested in reading about subjects that would have also interested people in the 1500s: ghosts, demons…

— Deborah Harkness

It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to…

— Laurence Housman

I would love to do a period piece - in the 18th or 17th century. To me, it would be such an incredible challenge…

— Amy Smart

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

— Lytton Strachey

I've always been interested in a lot of the medieval art portraying people being tormented.

— Jack Larson

“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

I did a research assignment on life in the Middle Ages only last year. I found the era fascinating, all that chivalry and court…

— Marianne Curley

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.

— Roddy Doyle

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

— David Szalay

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

— Phyllis Goldstein

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

— Bobby Akart