I cannot tell whether diamonds appeared in his eyes or mine as the shine of adoration became the icon one sees in history, a Byzantine sparkle, Medieval armor against all odds.
Alice ShapiroTag: love history desire medieval saltian
Considering that Timur had ignored every instrument of government except terror, it is remarkable his immediate successors managed to retain control of most of his empire.
Colin McEvedyHistory has never been fair to the Armenians and it is too late to start being so now
Colin McEvedyLoose and forbear!
Mark TwainTag: language medieval prince mark-twain pauper the-prince-and-the-pauper
Tag: woman society nature god misogyny medieval female
In the Medieval poem, we are surrounded by Winter, but I always imagined the Green Chapel and the castle of Lord and Lady Bercilak in all seasons. I was quite convinced (and still am) that Gawain did not return to Camelot immediately after his initiatory encounter with the Green Knight. That's where 'The Green Knight's Apprentice' began, I think, in my imaginings of what Gawain would learn and experience after his initiation was complete
Virginia ChandlerTag: medieval arthurian arthurian-legend gawain green-knight
W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for periods of time: to understand your own century you need to have come to terms with at least two others. The key to learning something about the past might be a ruin or an archive but the means whereby we may understand it is--and always will be--ourselves.
Ian MortimerTag: past history travel medieval england time-travel
The fantastic graces of Chivalry lay upon the surface of life, but beneath it was a half-savage population, fierce and animal, with little ruth or mercy.
Arthur Conan DoyleTag: medieval
She would but be repaid by my taking her to wife, and that I could not grant her, for love cometh of the heart and mot by constraint.
Rupert Sargent HollandTag: love medieval knights lancelot
I love you enough to keep you from dying with me... ~ Dane de Falaise
Gayle Mullen PaceTag: romance medieval historical
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