Goodness Quote by Wojciech Jaruzelski

We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.

— Eqbal Ahmad

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

Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance.

— Jay Roach

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 war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of fighting with…

— Anonymous

We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.

— Karen Maitland

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

— David Szalay

“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

It seems to me that if you were to take almost any half-century in history, you'd find a grand societal tug-of-war between the community…

— Lauren Groff

“The time and moment of Ancient and Medieval is gone, a new change is sought from within by the lifeforce a moment that is…

— Maitreya Rudrabhayananda

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

— Andre Maurois

I think you have to realize that most ancient warfare is really kind of hit and run, honestly. You go and you bash down…

— Mary Beard