The History of the Medieval World Quotes

“Pippin was crowned the first king of the Carolingian dynasty in the city of Soissons, in a brand-new sacred ceremony that involved anointing with holy oil in the manner of an Old Testament theocratic king.*”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“Pippin ordered Childeric III tonsured and sent to a monastery, where he died five years later, the last of the Merovingians.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“To be female and on the throne during the collapse of a Medieval Kingdom generally elicited accusations of lust, corruption, and general visciousness., The queen's sex life becomes a convenient explanation for the end of an era.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“The Huns had arrived at the distant edges of the western world. To the Romans, who had never seen them, they were as frightening as earthquake and tsunami, an evil force that could barely be resisted. Historians of the time had no idea exactly where these frightening newcomers came from, but they were sure it was somewhere awful. The Roman historian Procopius insists that they were descended from witches who had sexual congress with demons, producing Huns: a “stunted, foul and puny tribe, scarcely human and having no language save one which bore but slight resemblance of human speech.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“the twelfth-century Song of Roland, which turns the bloody incident into a major conspiracy between the Arabs of Zaragoza and a traitor within Charlemagne’s own camp.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“the Christian church still claimed the allegiance of all kings and soldiers in the west.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“all lands and castles which [El Cid] might acquire” by conquering taifa territory would belong solely to him.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“El Cid agreed to come home in exchange for two castles, a small territory of his own,”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“But by the end of August, Harold had begun to relax his guard.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“in Westminster Abbey, the first monarch to be crowned there.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“So Harold Godwinson was declared Harold II of England”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“William the Bastard was determined to become the next king of England.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“Emma’s bastard great-nephew William, who had become duke at the age of eight,”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“By 1064 he was thirty-six years old with the military experience of a soldier twice his age.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“By 1057, Harold and his Godwin brothers held three of the four earldoms of En gland.*”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“and restored the old man to the position of Earl of Wessex.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“Both saw advantage for themselves in getting rid of the leechlike Godwins.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“Leofric of Mercia and Siward of Northumbria.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“Over the next seven years, Edward worked unceasingly to gain the loyalty of the other two earls,”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“Nor was he particularly fond of Edith, who was a political pawn in the game he was playing with Godwin.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“by her learning and her “lack of intellectual humility and of personal beauty.”)”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“(Another chronicler says that those who saw the new queen were struck, simultaneously,”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“Between 1014 and 1042, Danish kings rule in England, and Macbeth overthrows the high king of Scotland”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“FOR TWO CENTURIES, the English had resisted Viking invasion.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“The enormous stones were hacked to bits with axes, and the rock itself was removed from the city.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“and Golgotha, the hill of crucifixion.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“which protected the tomb of Jesus, commemorated as the site of the resurrection,”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“al-Hakim ordered the great Christian complex built by Constantine destroyed:”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

“Charles the Great’s blood kin no longer sat on the throne.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade