Jeff Baena Quotes

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.

In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare.

Dark Ages

I'd really love to check out medieval times. I'm obsessed with that kind of stuff, like on a horseback with a sword.

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

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

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

The story is also about the battle between Arthur and the Saxons. The Saxons were destroying everything they came across and Arthur was left when Rome was falling because this movie takes place in 400 A.D.

I have a real passion for anything medieval, which is why I love the drama series 'Game Of Thrones.'

I'm a bit of a history goon, and I love all that. Anything that's medieval-based up until, probably, the Tudor period and just after, I'm quite into.

The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.

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

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.

With the advance of feudalism came the growth of iron armor, until, at last, a fighting-man resembled an armadillo.

When learning was monopolized by the monks in the Middle Ages, people specialized only in warfare and statecraft. And even these were not altogether free from the scholastic influence.

For years, the place I really lived - the world I watched, the one I thought and wrote about - was 15th-century France.

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

Medieval justice was a quaint thing.

We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

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 century. That would be great to get that feeling.