#middle ages

The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#ages #been #boards #confidant #enough

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat. ↗

— Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#ages #also #arguing #both #demonstrated

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

— Jerome K. Jerome

#attribute #entirely #i #men #middle

Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#almost #belonged #deeply #equally #future

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

— Lytton Strachey

#ages #atmosphere #dark #later #middle

Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants. ↗

— John Shimkus

#asia #carved #during #empire #indigenous

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

— Umberto Eco

#develop #developed #i #middle #middle ages

The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times. ↗

— James Buchan

#antiquity #commerce #cycle #famine #feast

In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion. ↗

— Robert Runcie

#because #middle #middle ages #now #people

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany. ↗

— George Santayana

#belong #breed #does #free #gather