6 Quotes by G.J. Meyer

Unprovable stories about her sexual encounters with a horse have come down to the twenty-first century.

Europe’s leading humanist and scriptural scholar, Erasmus of Rotterdam.

Salt was expensive, however, and so was used only with varieties of fish and meat that had demonstrated a capacity for surviving the preservation process in a reasonably appetizing state and were therefore regarded as “worth their salt.

People everywhere were being told that this war was no continuation of politics by other means, no traditional struggle for limited objectives. It was a fight to the death with the forces of evil, and the stakes were survival and civilization itself. It is no simple thing to make people believe such things and later persuade them to accept a settlement based on compromise.

It matters also that both Henry and his daughter Elizabeth were not just rulers but consummate performers, masters of political propaganda and political theater. They.

Ordinaries, that church law was above the reach of the secular authorities. He was now an outsider, still officially secretary.