Medieval Europe Quotes:

Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.

- R. W. Apple

topic: Europe, Medieval, Cathedrals, Medieval Europe

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

- Freeman Dyson

topic: Technology, Simple, Profound, Medieval Europe

In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally common.

- Robert Paul Weston

topic: Children, Father, Europe, Medieval Europe, Leading Causes

America did not need to be discovered because quite simply America had the American-Indians. There were whole groups of people that already lived there including very developed societies such as the Incas, the Aztecs, and the Mayans. But then came the European vision that saw the conquest as a source of advanced growth away from medieval Europe. The new revolutionary bourgeois trend formed a new perspective on what was democracy that they saw as an improvement to the democracy of ancient Greece.

- Alejandro Castro Espin

source: "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

topic: Europe, America, Perspective, Incas, Medieval Europe

The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly, in order to see how long they could keep someone alive while being roasted. It is not needful to go into further details, but there were also religious books of instruction in this art, and guides for the detection of heresy by pain.

- Christopher Hitchens

source: Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.208, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Medieval Europe, Holland, Tuscany, Religious Books

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

- Hu Shih

topic: Religious, Europe, Chinese, Medieval Europe, Pious

The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem. From the stagnation of Medieval Europe to the decline and chaos in recent times on the mainland of Asia and to the catastrophes of two world wars in the twentieth century, the methods of killing people became increasingly sophisticated. Scientific and technological progress certainly does not imply that humankind as a result becomes more civilized.

- Gao Xingjian

topic: War, Moving, Europe, Medieval Europe, Twentieth Century