Archers Story Part III Complete books XI, XII, and XIII Quotes

“to get an onion and some bread, cheese, and a bowl of morning ale at the cookhouse”
― Martin Archer, The Archers Story Part III: Complete Books Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen

“recruited apprentice archers who were being learnt to push arrows out of a longbow, use the bladed pikes our smiths have been making on Cyprus, and march together putting down the same foot to the beat of a rowing drum.”
― Martin Archer, The Archers Story Part III: Complete Books Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen

“The Pope, for example, saw the fall of Constantinople, where the papacy’s great rival, the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, had been located for almost a thousand years, as an opportunity to acquire more believers for his church and thus more coins and power for himself.”
― Martin Archer, The Archers Story Part III: Complete Books Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen

“Soon after their arrival the archers had killed the murderous Earl of Cornwall and William took his place by buying the earldom from the king; similarly, his priestly brother became the bishop of Cornwall’s two-priest diocese by buying it from the Pope.   Everything was all done fair and square according to the traditions of the time.”
― Martin Archer, The Archers Story Part III: Complete Books Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen

“The Templar knights, for instance, were continuing to acquire coins and land by letting people touch the point of the spear that killed Jesus and pray near it.”
― Martin Archer, The Archers Story Part III: Complete Books Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen

“two of the gold-covered right hands of Saint John the Baptist”
― Martin Archer, The Archers Story Part III: Complete Books Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen