"I think we should take down that dour statue of William Penn and put up Atilla the Hun."

"Empires are better memories than realities."

"They decided to grow up and become serious at about age forty which is exactly what bishops are supposed to do."

"A world dominated by mead-halls."  

"The Irish are great cursers!" 
        (ed. cursors?)

"If it weren't for the monks out on the edges of the world in the seventh century--and that was really Ireland's greatest century--we wouldn't know much."

"Trading and loooting go hand in glove."

"uptight monks"

"Courtley love:  I'm affraid to think what will happen after I tell you about this..."

"How many of us don't mind being corrupt?"  
        --Jane in response to Cluny

"I have loved in justice and therefore died in exile."  
        --Pope Gregory VII, guest lecturer

"Too many fingers in the pie, as it were."  

"An arse... an ART is in some ways a perfect creation."
        (ed.  I say NOTHING!)

"Thus I think the center of most universities is not the classroom but the jail." --SB
"The Lang Jail?" --Jane

"Sire, the peasants are revolting!" --me
"Yes, they certainly are."  --Lary

"One of these popes is not like the others,
One of these popes just doesn't belong.
Can you tell which one is the servant of Satan 
Before I finish my song?"  --Lary, Jane, and me 

"Even in monasteries, where the real religious pros lived."

"'Antichrist'--sounds like 'antifreeze', like something you pour in your car." --Jane

"Mountain climbing was not a very big thing in the middle ages."

"Margery Kempe was always wanting the eucharist."  
        (ed. sounds like an adiction to me)

"Humanists are wonderful self-promoters; used car salesmen."

"Clergy were the dispensers of salvation." --SB
"What kind of dispensers?  PEZ?  Take salvation out of your clergyman's neck!" --Larry

"All those horrid German tourists come down to Southern France and ruin
everything."

"English kings had the distinct advantage of being very small."

"It was difficult to be a knight in those days; you had to have vassals,
you had to own land, you had to be a horse... Is something funny?"

"There's something very disturbing about the thought of a pagan with a gun."

                                  -- Compiled by Charles Danforth and Courtenay "the" Dunn