I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery.

We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.

It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages.

When learning was monopolized by the monks in the Middle Ages, people specialized only in warfare and statecraft. And even these were not altogether free from the scholastic influence.

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.

I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.