middle-ages

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
e3f2963	The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to fear.	war fantasy grimdark game-of-thrones middle-ages	George R.R. Martin
3b73c7b	Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they always did one thing and never another; they were marvelously inconsistent.	medival middle-ages	Thomas Cahill
61bc21b	In the Middle Ages, cathedrals 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 flames.	writing imagination obviousness middle-ages fire	Umberto Eco
d4e105e	...Prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the pleasure of it and think, how sweet, how fine, how good this is... and then her teeth snap shut and your moans turn to screams... Prophecy will bite your prick off everytime,	war politics fantasy political-fiction a-game-of-thrones a-song-of-ice-and-fire george-rr-martin grimdark middle-ages epic-fantasy historical-fiction	George R.R. Martin
bb1d6bf	The hard truths are the ones to hold tight. - Old Bear	war fiction politics a-song-of-ice-and-fire george-rr-martin grimdark middle-ages epic-fantasy	George R.R. Martin
5e3c09b	Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just	religion inquisition middle-ages	Michela Wrong
e7d3e07	It was one thing to go into battle with friends, and another to perish alone and despised.	war politics a-song-of-ice-and-fire george-rr-martin grimdark game-of-thrones middle-ages epic-fantasy	George R.R. Martin
d71d943	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?	jousting middle-ages	H.G. Wells
7d164bb	...seeing everything, yet a part of nothing.	war politics a-song-of-ice-and-fire george-rr-martin grimdark game-of-thrones middle-ages epic-fantasy	George R.R. Martin
3d40c69	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 common with every other human being; and the immaculist position, which held that contrary view that Mary was in some way preserved from original sin, and was thus to be considered sinless. The maculist position was regarded as firmly established within the High Scholasticism of the thirteenth century. The veneration of the Virgin within popular piety, however, proved to have an enormously creative power that initially challenged, and subsequently triumphed over, the academic objections raised against it by university theologians.	christianity immaculate-conception lay-religion mariology virgin-mary original-sin middle-ages mary theology	Alister E. McGrath
157670c	His was a lonely, unorthodox conviction that war was man's ultimate failure.	middle-ages kings	Sharon Kay Penman

The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to fear.

war fantasy grimdark game-of-thrones middle-ages

George R.R. Martin

3b73c7b

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

medival middle-ages

Thomas Cahill

61bc21b

In the Middle Ages, cathedrals 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 flames.

writing imagination obviousness middle-ages fire

Umberto Eco

d4e105e

...Prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the pleasure of it and think, how sweet, how fine, how good this is... and then her teeth snap shut and your moans turn to screams... Prophecy will bite your prick off everytime,

war politics fantasy political-fiction a-game-of-thrones a-song-of-ice-and-fire george-rr-martin grimdark middle-ages epic-fantasy historical-fiction

George R.R. Martin

bb1d6bf

The hard truths are the ones to hold tight. - Old Bear

war fiction politics a-song-of-ice-and-fire george-rr-martin grimdark middle-ages epic-fantasy

George R.R. Martin

5e3c09b

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

religion inquisition middle-ages

Michela Wrong

e7d3e07

It was one thing to go into battle with friends, and another to perish alone and despised.

war politics a-song-of-ice-and-fire george-rr-martin grimdark game-of-thrones middle-ages epic-fantasy

George R.R. Martin

d71d943

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?

jousting middle-ages

H.G. Wells

7d164bb

...seeing everything, yet a part of nothing.

war politics a-song-of-ice-and-fire george-rr-martin grimdark game-of-thrones middle-ages epic-fantasy

George R.R. Martin

3d40c69

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 common with every other human being; and the immaculist position, which held that contrary view that Mary was in some way preserved from original sin, and was thus to be considered sinless. The maculist position was regarded as firmly established within the High Scholasticism of the thirteenth century. The veneration of the Virgin within popular piety, however, proved to have an enormously creative power that initially challenged, and subsequently triumphed over, the academic objections raised against it by university theologians.

christianity immaculate-conception lay-religion mariology virgin-mary original-sin middle-ages mary theology

Alister E. McGrath

157670c

His was a lonely, unorthodox conviction that war was man's ultimate failure.

middle-ages kings

Sharon Kay Penman