Katherine Swynford Quotes

“The fact remains that in the Middle Ages women were largely identified with the unofficial culture, with temptation to sin, distraction of the ongoing masculine intellect, disorderliness.”
― Jeannette Lucraft, Katherine Swynford: The History of a Medieval Mistress

“Much of our evidence about medieval women derives from the fantasies, certainties, and doubts of the clergy . . . Since much of their knowledge came from books, their portraits were caricatures more than true likenesses.”
― Jeannette Lucraft, Katherine Swynford: The History of a Medieval Mistress

“we make war so that we may have peace, because the end of war is peace’.”
― Jeannette Lucraft, Katherine Swynford: The History of a Medieval Mistress