I am not yet come of age, my lord. How can I be queen?” asked Constance fearfully.
Laurel A. RockefellerStichwörter: murder medieval queen young feudal royal
We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.
Eqbal AhmadStichwörter: politics medieval fundamentalism modern extremism
When you consider the superstitions and the imaginings of the old Cornish country-folk up to my grandmother's day, how their lives were swaddled in them from the cradle to the grave, their daily actions in large part determined by them - so many things you would not think of doing, like starting a journey on a Friday, or looking at the moon through a pane of glass, or failing to wear something new on Whitsunday - their minds haunted by ghosts and fears, you have a fair idea of what the minds of these people in the sixteenth century were like. It was a life full of shadows that frightened them and dangers that might come home to them; how much more so in those days when their fears had the sanction, and even the corroboration, of the elect and the intelligent: when a uniform religion existed to enforce its lessons and draw the moral. However, no doubt it filled up life for them, made it more interesting and exciting, more mysterious and incalculable; it added a dimension to it, where the modern uneducated, rid of their fears and ghosts, are apt to find life empty and void of meaning.
A.L. RowseStichwörter: psychology superstition medieval
No offense, Jaron, but I don't want your life. Even locked away behind closed doors I got a taste for how awful it can be."
"Did anyone try to kill you while I was gone?"
"No."
"Then you didn't even get a taste.
Stichwörter: humor fiction medieval
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in particular the control of education by religious authority. The attempts to ban the teaching of evolution or other scientific theories -- a feeble echo of medieval church tyranny and hostility to learning, but an echo nonetheless are serious threats to freedom of inquiry and should be vigorously combated.
S.T. JoshiStichwörter: science freedom tyranny evolution inquiry medieval separation-of-church-and-state
So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –
Simona PanovaStichwörter: truth prediction future romantic romance death sinister human lie danger dead magic mystery sacrifice suspense haunted ritual torture girl medieval ancient boy fortune gothic young-adult mysterious dangerous flirt witch divination divine forbidden occult druid torment provocative rite provoke magician wicca sacrifices occultism ominous gothic-romance goth young-adult-romance runes rune fortune-teller haunt fortune-telling predict casting-runes forbid young-adult-gothic-romance cast-runes straightforward tell-the-fortune tormenting tormentor torturing
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