England in the Age of Chivalry . . . And Awful Diseases Quotes

“Scottish history is complicated because a lot of its identity was made up in the nineteenth century by romantic novelists like Walter Scott and is now used to sell golfing holidays.”
― Ed West, England in the Age of Chivalry . . . And Awful Diseases: The Hundred Years' War and Black Death

“And to cap it all off, Gaveston was put in charge of the catering and managed to ruin it all with undercooked chicken. Understandably, the new queen was rather upset by the day’s events, while her uncles, Louis and Charles, stormed out of the coronation banquet and returned to France, after ‘seeing that the king frequented Piers’s couch more than the queen’s.’2 (Visiting England, they must have been prepared for the worst on the culinary front.)”
― Ed West, England in the Age of Chivalry . . . And Awful Diseases: The Hundred Years' War and Black Death