Tamora Pierce Quotes

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.

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.

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

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 you grew up in America.

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

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

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

We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.

The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.

When I was a boy, I took over the shed at the bottom of the garden and displayed fossils and potsherds and coins in it and proudly called it my 'museum'. I charged people to come in, and my most prized possession was a Saracen shield dating from the Crusades.

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.

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

The Crusaders who slaughtered their way to Jerusalem in 1099 were as Christian as the Christians of the Renaissance and of today.

In the Middle Ages when the feudal lords … to enlarge their domains, to increase their power, their prestige and their wealth … declared war upon one another. But they themselves did not go to war any more than the modern feudal lords, the barons of Wall Street go to war.

Stories of the Crusades are still told in Moslem cafes and families as if they occurred yesterday.

Let every free layman, who holds chattels or rent to the value of 16 marks, have hauberk, a helmet, a shield, and a lance.

Dark Ages

The 500 years following the fall of the Western Roman Empire were dubbed by the poet Petrarch 'dark.' Although the 14th-century Italian was referring to a literary decline, the term caught on to denote the seemingly backward turn the Western world took with regard to religious and technological developments.

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 Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever.

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.

I, or rather the Lord, beseech you as Christ's heralds to publish this everywhere and to pers­ue all people of whatever rank, foot-soldiers and knights, poor and rich, to carry aid promptly to those Christians and to destroy that vile race from the lands of our friends. I say this to those who are present, it is meant also for those who are absent. Moreover, Christ commands it.

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