The White Ship Quotes

“The spreading influence of the Church had affected the domestic arrangements of all, including priests and princes, setting bastard stock in a separate, inferior category to children born in wedlock.”
― Charles Spencer, The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream

“swingeing.”
― Charles Spencer, The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream

“William of Malmesbury wrote that ‘satisfied with a child of either sex, [the queen] ceased having issue’.”
― Charles Spencer, The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream

“Anselm targeted the sodomy, drunkenness and slovenly dress that he was disappointed to find flourishing among the English priesthood.”
― Charles Spencer, The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream