Mediaeval Mind, Volume 1
Author: first_name: Henry Osborn
last_name: Taylor
Language: English
Year: 1911

The Middle Ages! They seem so far away; intellectually so preposterous, spiritually so strange. Bits of them may touch our sympathy, please our taste; their windowglass, their sculpture, certain of their stories, their romances, - as if those straitened ages really were the time of romance, which they were not, God knows, in the sense commonly taken. Yet perhaps they were such intellectually, or at least spiritually. Their terra - not for them incognita, though full of mystery and pall and vague