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I know Verona as I do my own body.

—Lois Leveen

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Middle-AgesShakespeareVerona
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In the early twelfth century century the Virgin had been the supreme protectress of civilisation. She had taught a race of tough and ruthless barbarians the virtues of tenderness and compassion. The great cathedrals of...

—Kenneth Clark

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CivilizationDark-AgesGods
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Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just

—Michela Wrong

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Human-NatureInquisitionMiddle-Ages
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Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the...

—Andrew Bernstein

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EssenseFantasiesGenius
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Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. … At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial a structure civilization is, and how precariously it is poised upon the apex...

—Will Durant

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Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,’ said Cleopatra, ‘with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything...

—Charles Dickens

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FortressesHumorIrony
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The rising influence of lay piety is particularly marked upon the Mariological controversies of the late medieval period. Two rival positions developed: the maculist position, which held that Mary was subject to original sin, in...

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CatholicismChristianityImmaculate-Conception
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What I want to know is, in the Middle Ages, did they do anything for Housemaid’s Knee? What did they put in their hot baths after jousting?

—H.G. Wells

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HistoryJoustingMiddle-Ages
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The times do not call for grassroots political activism, as if the next election might be enough to reverse a massive cultural earthquake. They do not call for working just a little bit harder: a...

—Paul D.

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CivilizationCultural-RenewalEducation
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The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of classical antiquity, the idea of pure science. Geometry became one of the most...

—Hermann Weyl

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Ancient-GreeksAntiquityAstronomy
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In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in...

—Umberto Eco

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I write love quotes for all ages—Teenagers, Young Adults, and even the Middle Ages—like between the years of 1200-1700. Erasmus loves my work. Well, probably he does, but as he’s dead you really can’t prove...

—Jarod Kintz

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AgeAgesDeath
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Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent.

—Thomas Cahill

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CultureMedivalMiddle-Ages
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When I think of the Middle Ages I think of castles, Catholicism, and taking your kids to soccer practice.

—Jarod Kintz

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There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.

—Richard Lederer

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The more formidable the contradiction between inexhaustible life-joy and inevitable fate, the greater the longing which reveals itself in the kingdom of poetry and in the self-created world of dreams hopes to banish the dark...

—Ferdinand Cohn

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BiologyDeathDreams
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It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by the decay and disruption of the Roman Empire, the consequent disorganisation of society,...

—Thomas Henry

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Ancient-GreeksDogmaGreek
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How much easier it is to be poor than rich.

—Lois Leveen

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