Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages Quotes

“The very largeness of the attempt to describe the whole cosmos and men’s place in it, and to regulate the details of human life in the light of this description, made the medieval church (all unknown to contemporaries) deeply sensitive to intellectual and social change – much more sensitive than the post-Reformation churches with their more limited aims and powers.”
― R.W. Southern, The Penguin History of the Church: Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages