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  • The whole scene resembled one of those engravings from the Middle Ages entitled" A Quack at Work."†   (source)
  • She could see the town below her, nestled on top of a low hill, surrounded by a crenellated wall from the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • It was more common in the Middle Ages than now.†   (source)
  • But I also knew that Christianity had evolved from the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • These religious policies earned universal notoriety as the Taliban strived to restore the Middle Ages in a nation longing to join the twenty-first century.†   (source)
  • It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages.†   (source)
  • There was a period of about three hundred years during the Middle Ages when my name was almost forgotten.†   (source)
  • Sumerian was used as the language of religion and scholarship by later civilizations, much as Latin was used in Europe during the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • The executive right beside me suddenly awoke in the middle of a long anecdote about how the Mongol invasion had affected the Russian character in the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • What about the Middle Ages?†   (source)
  • Peter, you do realize that talismans went out of vogue in the Middle Ages, right?†   (source)
  • In the Middle Ages, thousands of books were destroyed when people cut up their bindings to make soles for shoes or to heat steam baths with their paper.†   (source)
  • Several centuries of humanitarian progress were to be cancelled out, and we were back in the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • We are no longer in the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • Zero, originally a Hindu number, was introduced to the West by the Arabs during the Middle Ages and was unknown to the ancient Greeks and Romans.†   (source)
  • Aristotle's erroneous view of the sexes was doubly harmful because it was his—rather than Plato's—view that held sway throughout the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • They got laws about that sort of thing nowadays; this ain't the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • This was the same kind of fatality rate as was seen with the black plague during the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • For rabbits, winter remains what it was for men in the middle ages—hard, but bearable by the resourceful and not altogether without compensations.†   (source)
  • When I started my project I enjoyed the laughing Middle Ages lady that wore red boots.†   (source)
  • "Only a day's drive from the modern world, I really felt we'd arrived in the Middle Ages," Mortenson says.†   (source)
  • Yet from a boy's perspective in this small, tree-shaded town, it might as well have been fought in the Middle Ages—a vivid, glorious, exciting story, filled with images of great battleships and planes and tanks and men charging forth in rounded helmets, all backgrounded somehow by the Stars and Stripes.†   (source)
  • He'll only say, "You're lucky, in my day . blah blah blah," and then we'll be back in the Middle Ages, or the seventies as he calls it.†   (source)
  • "Hans, you've got a view of women from the Middle Ages," Modig said.†   (source)
  • These aren't originals—they were copied during the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • That's where the Vikings used to hide in the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • This is the twenty-first century, not the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • I do not speak of the mincing, effete courtesy of these desperate times, but the virile, robust courtesy born in that most violent of times, the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • There is no Middle Ages logic so strong that it can stop the human tide from flowing forward.†   (source)
  • I told them about the other world we saw together in Sicily; and how their father did well in a combat that might have occurred in the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • You people live in a world that would drive my profession back to the Middle Ages — not that most of us aren't still there; the words are just cuter.'†   (source)
  • I think of smallpox as something out of the Middle Ages, like the Black Plague.†   (source)
  • In the Middle Ages, people believed in the devil and feared him.†   (source)
  • The JUDGE does not attempt to control the reaction,) HORNBECK (In the manner of a hawker or pitchman) Step right up, and get your tickets for the Middle Ages!†   (source)
  • Only in the short-lived Middle Ages--speaking relatively--was religion more central to the whole life of a people.†   (source)
  • So it was in the Middle Ages, and later the Jesuits always exploited this human trait.†   (source)
  • Thirty per cent are laborers, labor tenants, and squatters on white farms and work and live under conditions similar to those of the serfs of the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • This world, based on the European High Middle Ages, was chosen by the software based on his ID.†   (source)
  • I thought they were starting in the Middle Ages or something.†   (source)
  • Ahead of us we have the Christian Middle Ages, which also lasted for about a thousand years.†   (source)
  • An exaggerated belief in the importance of reason had been valid all through the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • In the early centuries of the Middle Ages this entire culture crum-bled.†   (source)
  • I'll have to get home before the end of the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • In the Middle Ages, for instance—or in the Stone Age ten or twenty thousand years ago?†   (source)
  • "Middle Ages began at four?" asked Sophie, feeling stupid but no longer nervous.†   (source)
  • In the Middle Ages people returned to payment in kind and bartering.†   (source)
  • So schools date from the Middle Ages, and pedagogy from the Enlightenment.†   (source)
  • The same thought was expressed in the Middle Ages in the maxim: credo quid absurdum.†   (source)
  • The life of the church in the Middle Ages was heavily dominated by men.†   (source)
  • But you can't help much before I have told you about the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • The point is that at the end of the Middle Ages, all three streams came together in Northern Italy.†   (source)
  • One thing is certain: There is no way back to the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • This area developed during the Middle Ages into an Arabic-speaking Muslim culture.†   (source)
  • That was an old stone church from the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • Therefore we usually speak of the Middle Ages as being a unifying force of Christian culture.†   (source)
  • The school system, for instance, was developed in the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • But then the whole town was old; it had been founded way back in the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • Yes, a difference that goes right back to the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • "So the Middle Ages lasted for ten hours then," said Sophie.†   (source)
  • It's an old stone church from the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • We therefore speak of the Byzantine Middle Ages as opposed to the Roman Catholic Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • Then come the interminable Middle Ages—Europe's schoolday.†   (source)
  • It sounded like an ancient hymn, probably from the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • It was also firmly rooted in the Middle Ages, and we remember it from Plato and Socrates too.†   (source)
  • Weren't there any women philosophers in the Middle Ages?†   (source)
  • Sophie could have sworn it was a monk right out of the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • But it was still the Middle Ages, you see.†   (source)
  • What would fairy tales and folk songs have been without the Middle Ages?†   (source)
  • The horror, the shiver, the hellish sense of religious retribution out of the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • During the Middle Ages, bitter disputes arose over our direction.†   (source)
  • Two small castles, scarcely altered since the Middle Ages, stood in the center of the island and could be explored by curious children.†   (source)
  • If you came awake tomorrow in the Middle Ages and there was an epidemic raging, what could you do to stop it, knowing what you know about the progress of medicines and diseases?†   (source)
  • After till, here were my own guys, swooping over these tribesmen from the Middle Ages, hitting them hard with high-tech modern ordnance.†   (source)
  • A government health official, who prefers not to be named, compared the sanitary conditions in a modern feedlot to those in a crowded European city during the Middle Ages, when people dumped their chamber pots out the window, raw sewage ran in the streets, and epidemics raged.†   (source)
  • Wang tried to recall what little he knew of European history in the Middle Ages so that he could deduce the level of advancement of this civilization based on the name.†   (source)
  • They think nothing of slaughtering thousands of people; they've stabbed and mutilated young American soldiers, like something out of the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • This conception became increasingly clear as Church and State fought for supremacy throughout the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • All through the Middle Ages people had stood beneath the sky and gazed up at the sun, the moon, the stars, and the planets.†   (source)
  • Toward the end of the Middle Ages, cities had developed, with effective trades and a lively commerce of new goods, a monetary economy and banking.†   (source)
  • Suddenly she jumped up and ran after the monk-robed philosopher, calling: "Was there also an Alberto in the Middle Ages?"†   (source)
  • They longed for bygone eras, such as the Middle Ages, which now became enthusiastically reappraised after the Enlightenment's negative evaluation.†   (source)
  • The Middle Ages… going only part of the way is not the same as going the wrong way A week passed without Sophie hearing from Alberto Knox.†   (source)
  • She is an example of the fact that women were often more practical, more scientific even, in the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • I shall now tell you about the long period frm Aristotle near the end of the fourth century B.C. right up to the early Middle Ages around A.D. 400.†   (source)
  • Yet the resonance in such names as England, France, or Germany is the very same boundless deep we call the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • There were piles of old wreckage, both written and spoken, from the Middle Ages and the rationalist philosophy of the seventeenth century.†   (source)
  • "Middle Ages began at four," he said.†   (source)
  • Moreover, in the course of the Middle Ages the various nation-states established themselves, with cities and citizens, folk music and folktales.†   (source)
  • She was "perhaps an example of the fact that women were often more practical, more scientific even, in the Middle Ages."†   (source)
  • In this one person's life we can observe the actual transition from late antiquity to the Early Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • Another central figure, Pica della Mirandola, wrote the Oration on the Dignity of Man, something that would have been unthinkable in the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • All through the Middle Ages, the Arabs were predominant hi sciences such as mathematics, chemistry, astronomy, and medicine.†   (source)
  • In the feudal society of the Middle Ages, it was between feudal lord and serf; later on, between aristocrat and citizen.†   (source)
  • The Catholic Church, on the other hand, has since the early Middle Ages believed more in reason as a pillar of faith.†   (source)
  • The Middle Ages had St. Thomas Aquinas, who tried to build a bridge between Aristotle's philosophy and Christian theology.†   (source)
  • You cannot single out particular thoughts from antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, or the Enlightenment and say they were right or wrong.†   (source)
  • But many historians now consider the Middle Ages to have been a thousand-year period of germination and growth.†   (source)
  • During the Middle Ages the city declined, and by 1417 the old metropolis had only 17,000 inhabitants.†   (source)
  • Snorri lived in the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • And therefore, Sophie, therefore you have to understand that there is no dramatic break with Greek philosophy the minute we enter the Christian Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • They became intensely conscious of their epoch, which is what led them to introduce the term 'Middle Ages' to cover the centuries between antiquity and their own time.†   (source)
  • After comprehensive studies, Descartes came to the conclusion that the body of knowledge handed down from the Middle Ages was not necessarily reliable.†   (source)
  • In general, Luther distanced himself from many of the religious customs and dogmas that had become rooted in ecclesiastical history during the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • Alberto continued: "Sophia, or God's mother nature, had a certain significance both for Jews and in the Greek Orthodox Church throughout the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • Midnight was 0, one o'clock was 100 years after Christ, six o'clock was 600 years after Christ, and 14 hours was 1,400 years after Christ… Alberto continued: "The Middle Ages actually means the period between two other epochs.†   (source)
  • Throughout the Middle Ages, the Arabs had kept the Aristotelian tradition alive, and from the end of the twelfth century, Arab scholars began to arrive in Northern Italy at the invitation of the nobles.†   (source)
  • It was not until the Middle Ages that he even assumed the identity of Astaroth' and that dreadful name began to appear in the scholars' lists and grimoires.†   (source)
  • Then, in the Middle Ages, the Christians modeled gargoyles after me, to protect their cathedrals and whatnot.†   (source)
  • That was his life two years before Gaston began to wait for the airplane, and it went on the same way on the afternoon that he went to the bookstore of the wise Catalonian and found four ranting boys in a heated argument about the methods used to kill cockroaches in the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • When the Venetians became powerful …. well, the relics of saints were a big tourist attraction back in the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • I understood that the management needed to keep things interesting, especially for warriors who had been waiting here for Doomsday since the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • Probably in the Middle Ages?†   (source)
  • …definite and pressing, which was the instinct to kill cockroaches, and if the latter had succeeded in escaping human ferocity it was because they had taken refuge in the shadows, where they became invulnerable because of man's congenital fear of the dark, but on the other hand they became susceptible to the glow of noon, so that by the Middle Ages already, and in present times, andper omnia secula seculorum , the only effective method for killing cockroaches was the glare of the sun.†   (source)
  • Imagine a virus with the infectiousness of influenza and the mortality rate of the black plague in the Middle Ages—that's what we're talking about."†   (source)
  • If you worked as a blacksmith in the mystics' Middle Ages, the whole of your earning capacity would consist of an iron bar produced by your hands in days and days of effort.†   (source)
  • It comes from a term in the Middle Ages meaning to plant a seed in the ground, and in a way that's your specialty!†   (source)
  • …the rites of the jungle witch-doctors, which distorted reality into grotesque absurdities, stunted the minds of their victims and kept them in terror of the supernatural for stagnant stretches of centuriesto the supernatural doctrines of the Middle Ages, which kept men huddling on the mud floors of their hovels, in terror that the devil might steal the soup they had worked eighteen hours to earn-to the seedy little smiling professor who assures you that your brain has no capacity to…†   (source)
  • …torture, to enslave, to expropriate, to murder, but that they must resist the temptations of logic and stick to the discipline of remaining irrationalthat skyscrapers, factories, radios, airplanes were the products of faith and mystic intuition, while famines, concentration camps and firing squads are the products of a reasonable manner of existence-that the industrial revolution was the revolt of the men of faith against that era of reason and logic which is known as the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • Scarlett, our Southern way of living is as antiquated as the feudal system of the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • She kept reminding me how few people since the Middle Ages had manned eagles.†   (source)
  • A twentieth-century nun floats by in a costume from the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • Joyeux had been made by Galand, the greatest swordsmith of the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • In the Middle Ages there was the Inquisition.†   (source)
  • Even the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages was tolerant by modern standards.†   (source)
  • He was drowned deep at midnight in the destiny of the man who killed the bear, the burner of windmills and the scourge of banditry, in all the life of road and tavern in the Middle Ages, in valiant and beautiful Gerard, the seed of genius, the father of Erasmus.†   (source)
  • In the Middle Ages the plastic artist paid lip service at least to the lowest common denominators of experience.†   (source)
  • Anything large and impressive, if it was reasonably new in appearance, was automatically claimed as having been built since the Revolution, while anything that was obviously of earlier date was ascribed to some dim period called the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • To show the state of mind I was in, I will read you a few of them, explaining that the page was headed quite simply, WOMEN AND POVERTY, in block letters; but what followed was something like this: Condition in Middle Ages of, Habits in the Fiji Islands of, Worshipped as goddesses by, Weaker in moral sense than, Idealism of, Greater conscientiousness of, South Sea Islanders, age of puberty among, Attractiveness of, Offered as sacrifice to, Small size of brain of, Profounder…†   (source)
  • He explained that the decadence of architecture had come when private property replaced the communal spirit of the Middle Ages, and that the selfishness of individual owners—who built for no purpose save to satisfy their own bad taste, "all claim to an individual taste is bad taste"—had ruined the planned effect of cities.†   (source)
  • I pass from house to house like the friars in the Middle Ages who cozened the wives and girls with beads and ballads.†   (source)
  • You will be aware, anyhow, that Nestorian Christianity was widespread throughout Asia during the Middle Ages, and that its memory lingered long after its actual decay.†   (source)
  • A man of the Middle Ages would detest the whole mode of our present-day life as something far more than horrible, far more than barbarous.†   (source)
  • It may have been something that had survived from the middle ages when houses and probably individuals were so marked to indicate where plague had struck.†   (source)
  • During the later Middle Ages, he once arose from the dead to participate in a crusadesEach of these biographies exhibits the variously rationalized theme of the infant exile and return.†   (source)
  • He said to me once when we were talking of the so-called horrors of the Middle Ages: "These horrors were really nonexistent.†   (source)
  • On foggy evenings, under a gas lantern on a street corner, nobody noticed the slender figure leaning against a lamppost, the aristocrat of the Middle Ages, the timeless patrician whose every instinct cried that he should command, whose swift brain told him why he had the right to do so, the feudal baron created to rule—but born to sweep floors and take orders.†   (source)
  • He was the badge of everything that was good in the Middle Ages, and he had made these things himself.†   (source)
  • The beggars and loafers were already collecting in their Middle Ages style, the touts and schnorrers and the others uncovering their damages and stock-in-trade woes from bandages and rags.†   (source)
  • We're going to cover the Greeks and Romans, Middle Ages, Renaissance Italy, and I'm p-planning a chart, the Min-Minoans way high, Calvin down low, Sir Walter Raleigh, up; Carlyle, stinks; modern science, stand-still.†   (source)
  • It was the Gramarye of the Middle Ages, which some people are accustomed to think of as the Dark Ages, and Arthur had made it what it was.†   (source)
  • In those despised Middle Ages of theirs you could become the greatest man in the world, by simply having learning.†   (source)
  • She wanted to hunt with an eagle trained in falconry, and as she had owned hawks she was eager to imitate a British captain and an American couple who had taught or "manned" golden and American eagles, some of the few since the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • Now, safe in the apple-green sunset before them, there stretched the fabled Merry England of the Middle Ages, when they were not so dark.†   (source)
  • Kings did sit personally in the Middle Ages, even as late as the so-called Henry IV, who was supposed to have sat both in the Exchequer and the King's Bench.†   (source)
  • In the dining halls the older gentlemen, who had spoiled their palates with drinking, were relishing those strange delicacies of the Middle Ages—the strong flavours of whale and porpoise.†   (source)
  • We, who have learned to base our interpretation of love on the conventional boy-and-girl romance of Romeo and Juliet, would be amazed if we could step back into the Middle Ages—when the poet of chivalry could write about Man that he had "en del un dieu, par terre une deesse."†   (source)
  • The Dark and Middle Ages!†   (source)
  • Unchastity and infidelity were as confused to him as to the Middle Ages, his only moral teacher.†   (source)
  • It will deal with the domestic industries of Brabant during the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • Chapter XX: The End of the Middle Ages The Miss Alans did go to Greece, but they went by themselves.†   (source)
  • So would you be if you had lived so much in the Middle Ages as I have done these last few years!†   (source)
  • And then all this about the domestic industry of the middle ages—!†   (source)
  • It comes, of course, from the very advanced Middle Ages, the Gothic—signum mortification is.†   (source)
  • The Christian Middle Ages clearly saw that the secular state was inherently capitalist.†   (source)
  • But up here the whole issue of the Middle Ages has been brought home to me in various ways.†   (source)
  • I thought, I must confess, that these tales, were inventions of the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • From the serfs of the Middle Ages sprang the chartered burghers of the earliest towns.†   (source)
  • Vronsky's interest in painting and the Middle Ages did not last long.†   (source)
  • Horrible! one of us, in the middle ages, did better: he married a beggar-maid, like King Cophetua.†   (source)
  • Moreover, this sort of tomb was not so very rare a thing in the cities of the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • The sewer of Paris in the Middle Ages was legendary.†   (source)
  • The arch-heretics of the Middle Ages had already made large incisions into Catholicism.†   (source)
  • There is no more of the Middle Ages in our constitution.†   (source)
  • The populace, especially in the Middle Ages, is in society what the child is in the family.†   (source)
  • Bad language was no longer heard, and the little nastinesses of small boys were looked upon with hostility; the bigger boys, like the lords temporal of the Middle Ages, used the strength of their arms to persuade those weaker than themselves to virtuous courses.†   (source)
  • This turned out to be the Honorable Thornton Hancock, of Boston, ex-minister to The Hague, author of an erudite history of the Middle Ages and the last of a distinguished, patriotic, and brilliant family.†   (source)
  • It was a splendid portrait, painted by a renowned artist, executed tastefully in the style—as suggested by its subject—of the old masters and awakening in the observer all sorts of images of the late Middle Ages in the Spanish Netherlands.†   (source)
  • For a year he had been devoting all of his odd moments to the reading of books and now some tale he had read concerning life in old world towns of the middle ages came sharply back to his mind so that he stumbled forward with the curious feeling of one revisiting a place that had been a part of some former existence.†   (source)
  • Secure, because once enlisted aboard a King's-ship, they were as much in sanctuary, as the transgressor of the Middle Ages harboring himself under the shadow of the altar.†   (source)
  • I have read every historical work that I have been able to lay my hands on, from a catalogue of dry facts and dryer dates to Green's impartial, picturesque "History of the English People"; from Freeman's "History of Europe" to Emerton's "Middle Ages."†   (source)
  • Over these were strewn the remains, half-buried in the long grass, of the castle of the old Counts of Combray, who, during the Middle Ages, had had on this side the course of the Vivonne as a barrier and defence against attack from the Lords of Guermantes and Abbots of Martinville.†   (source)
  • Then came the middle Ages.†   (source)
  • Please understand, gentlemen, that in reasoning thus, I am taking the point of view which might have been taken by a criminal of the middle ages.†   (source)
  • It is also said that after the Middle Ages the inhabitants were too poor to pay their priests, and hence were compelled to pull down their churches, and refrain altogether from the public worship of God; a necessity which they bemoaned over their cups in the settles of their inns on Sunday afternoons.†   (source)
  • When I repeated to myself, giving thus a special value to what I was going to see, that Venice was the "School of Giorgione, the home of Titian, the most complete museum of the domestic architecture of the Middle Ages," I felt happy indeed.†   (source)
  • …seemed to be striving to draw the river down into the tangle of its seaweeds; Pont-Aven, the snowy, rosy flight of the wing of a lightly poised coif, tremulously reflected in the greenish waters of a canal; Quimperle, more firmly attached, this, and since the Middle Ages, among the rivulets with which it babbled, threading their pearls upon a grey background, like the pattern made, through the cobwebs upon a window, by rays of sunlight changed into blunt points of tarnished silver?†   (source)
  • …nature, that had remained contemporaneous with the great phenomena of geology—and as remote from human history as the Ocean itself, or the Great Bear, with its wild race of fishermen for whom, no more than for their whales, had there been any Middle Ages—it had been a great joy to me to see it suddenly take its place in the order of the centuries, with a stored consciousness of the romanesque epoch, and to know that the gothic trefoil had come to diversify those wild rocks also, at the…†   (source)
  • Indeed, until well into the late Middle Ages, the majority of people, even those in the cities, were vassals.†   (source)
  • Did Herr Settembrini not recall that the greatest poet of the Middle Ages, Wolfram von Eschenbach, had been illiterate?†   (source)
  • Yes, perfect textbook Middle Ages—I see in it, as it were, some notions about the Middle Ages that I've been working on of late myself.†   (source)
  • The scholastics were sort of the scribes of the Middle Ages, the dogmatic philosophers, if you like—hmm.†   (source)
  • It is sacred Latin, the dialect of monks, a chant from the Middle Ages, so to speak, a kind of muted, subterranean monotone.†   (source)
  • And I like you better, too, although he's almost always right when you two argue and scuffle pedagogically for my poor soul, like God and the Devil struggling over a man in the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • Naphta now proceeded to prove that the awe in which the Christian Middle Ages had held the suffering human body was derived from religious affirmation in the face of the afflictions of the flesh.†   (source)
  • The Middle Ages came up several times—and it reminded me how that very first day Settembrini said there was a medieval ring about a lot of things up here.†   (source)
  • It was a matter of reaching back to certain religious orders of knights in the Middle Ages, to the Knights Templar in particular—you know, the ones who swore vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience before the patriarch of Jerusalem.†   (source)
  • The scholastics of the Middle Ages claimed to know that time is an illusion, its flow toward objective consequences due solely to our sensory apparatus, and that the true state of things is a permanent now.†   (source)
  • The mysticism of the late Middle Ages, however, had demonstrated its liberating tendency by acting as a forerunner of the Reformation—the Reformation, hee hee, which for its part had been a tangled snarl of freedom and medieval reaction.†   (source)
  • For it is as clear as clear can be that, just as in the Middle Ages, all private and public relationships will be bound to the soil, even—and I do not find it easy to say this—even the individual personality.†   (source)
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