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In medieval theater, it is not so much bad reviews which you need to fear but excommunication.
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England (2008)
Local justice is designed to find somebody guilty; it does not necessarily follow that that somebody is the person responsible for the crime in question.
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England (2008)
Not wearing something is also a way of making a fashion statement.
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England (2008)
In medieval society, what you wear denotes what you are.
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England (2008)
This horrific disease does not just affect the sinful; it kills the innocent too. If this is the work of God, then He is indiscriminate in his judgments.
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England (2008)
Unlike men, women or not usually described by what they do but by their marital condition. Thus the medieval mind tends to categorize women as follows: maidens, wives, nuns, and widows.
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England (2008)
The modern traveler coming from an age of good food guides and supermarkets is liable to forget that people in medieval England still starve to death.
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England (2008)
We should always remember that what we have in common with the past is just as important, real, and as essential to our lives as those things which make us different.
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England (2008)
Convenience, you will soon realize, is not something to which aristocrats aspire. The more impractical the clothing, the higher the status of the wearer.
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England (2008)
History is not just about the analysis of evidence, unrolling vellum documents or answering exam papers. It is not about judging the dead. It is about understanding the meaning of the past—to realize the whole evolving human story over centuries, not just our own lifetimes.
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England (2008)
It has to be said: the prime reason to avoid medieval England is not the violence, the bad humor, the poor roads, the inequality of the class system, the approach to religion and heresy, or the extreme sexism. It is the sickness.
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England (2008)
To what extent is character a result of education? In the Middle Ages it is arguable that the answer is not very much. Alternatively, you could turn the question around and say the opposite. The shortcomings of medieval education have a profound effect on the people.
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England (2008)
So, as long as you can get enough to eat, and can avoid all the various lethal infections, the dangers of childbirth, lead poisoning, and the extreme violence, you should live a long time.
All you have to worry about are the doctors.
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England (2008)
At the end of the day—at the end of the century—this is what history is. History is not just about the analysis of evidence, unrolling vellum documents or answering exam papers. It is not about judging the dead. It is about understanding the meaning of the past—to realize the whole evolving human story over centuries, not just our own lifetimes.
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England (2008)