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I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.
The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.
There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.
We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in ways that are entirely new. In the Middle Ages, the term 'genius' was reserved for people with the best memories. That is telling.
There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
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