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It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment.

— Laurence Housman

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.

— Tamora Pierce

Medieval learning was really advanced.

— Terry Jones

But no, I don't think I'm particularly drawn to the period roles or the medieval roles.

— Hugh Dancy

If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.

— Goldwin Smith

We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.

— Terry Jones

Medieval justice was a quaint thing.

— Frederick Pollock

At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation - yet they did. Change does happen.

— Rowan Williams

I seem to be quite drawn to the medieval, magical fantasies, as it were.

— Sean Bean

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

— Eric Allin Cornell

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.

— Oliver Stone