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At Bologna the students held control of their university hired and fired professors fined them for unexcused absences or lateness for wandering from their subject and for dodging difficult questions
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The character of a great Gothic church is to be soaring open spiritual defiant of earths gravity reaching to heaven not because of but in spite of the stone
Once the crusaders had taken control of the city they began to massacre the inhabitants Some of our men
Virginity was regarded with superstitious awe perhaps because there was so little of it
Furniture was scanty demountable tables and benches eased only by bankers
Conscious symbolism governed medieval representation Grammar for instance was pictured as an old woman with a knife and file to operate on students mistakes Rhetoric was an imposing woman whose dress was ornamented with the figures of speech
Charlemagnes educational and cultural campaign was momentous for its preservation of the classical past and for its effects on medieval society The level of literacy never again sank as low as it had in pre Carolingian times
The lance or spear was the traditional weapon of the horseman and it lingers to our own times as a symbol of the mounted knight In 1939 the Polish cavalry with ridiculous gallantry carried lances into battle against German tanks
The Byzantines mounted catapults on their ships they also introduced the West to Greek Fire apparently a mixture of petroleum quicklime and sulphur The quicklime in contact with water ignited the bomb a primitive napalm
What can a historian say of this almost incredible tale of an illiterate peasant girl who altered the course of history who daunted kings who outgeneraled generals who rose above human capacities to sainthood Was Joan an agent of divine purpose or does she illustrate the extraordinary secret powers of the human spirit
The adept of courtly love fresh from sighing at his unapproachable ladys feet could pause on his homeward journey to tumble a shepherdess in her meadow a fresh faced village girl under a hedge The Muslims in Spain and Syria were shocked by the licentiousness of the French
The Picts poured over Hadrians Wall in the north Scottish tribes harried the coasts from their homes in Northern Ireland The Saxons or Anglo Saxons came from the coast of Denmark and Germany to ravage Englands eastern shores and finding the land good established permanent settlements
Ninety percent of our earliest examples of Latin classical writings are Carolingian copies
The Florence flood of 1333 was ascribed by clerics to Gods wrath at the use of glass windows and other luxuries
The culture of a given time and place is a product of inherited tradition of the recovery of lost or obscured forms of thought of innovation Such seeds fertilized by prosperity tended by leisure and warmed by the sun of peace may produce an abundant bloom
Art and architecture were a single unit only later did they take separate courses It is curious that today with all our wealth our builders cannot afford the decorative beauty customary in the relatively poor Middle Ages
He concluded one of his books with the words He seems to me a very foolish man and very wretched who will not increase his understanding while he is in the world and ever wish and long to reach that endless life where all shall be made clear
Joan then turned on Paris The campaign was hampered by the new kings indecision or cowardice In the attack Joan was wounded in the thigh by a crossbow bolt A plaque on the Café de la Régence in the Place du Palais Royal marks the spot
When Charlemagnes driving impulse passed his Renaissance faded For 200 years after his death there is not much to record in Western Europe in the way of creative thought
