Barbara Tuchman Quotes About Church

• Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.

  →

  Barbara Tuchman

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.487, Random House

  2356

• The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.

  →

  Barbara Tuchman

  Barbara Tuchman (2017). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.63, Penguin UK

  3962

• That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.

  →

  Barbara Tuchman

  Barbara Tuchman (2017). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.71, Penguin UK

  3926

• The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.

  →

  Barbara Tuchman

  War   Years   Unity  

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.564, Random House

  4630

• Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.

  →

  Barbara Tuchman

  2141

You May Also Like:

Paul Lester Wiener

Walter Lippmann

Joseph Stilwell

Paul Fussell

Robert M. Morgenthau

Stephen Ambrose

Herbert Hoover

Margaret MacMillan