Edward Plantagenet is no man to hold cheaply. Far better to take him at his own inflated estimation!
Brother Euddogwy did not know how to respond to that, for only the Angevins would see a rebellion as an opportunity for brotherly bonding.
What do you know of sacrifice? Need I tell you of York's dead . . . of Sandal Castle? My brother did survive the battle, his first. He was seventeen and he entreated them to spare his life. They cut h...
This was the moment he most loved about tourneying, that first glorious sortie with banners streaming, trumpets blaring, and the earth atremble with pounding hooves as hundreds of knights came togethe...
Sensible men were not eager to submit themselves to the Judgement of the Almighty, and a decisive battle seemed to prove that the victor had God on his side. Most people preferred not to put the Lord’...
Barbed banter was the coin of their realm and heartfelt admissions of affection were rejected out of hand as counterfeit.
An intimate enemy, death, capricious and cruel, ultimately invincible.
When a man fell into a deep hole, it was usually a good idea to stop digging.
If a man is a fool to wed for love, he must be utterly daft to wed for lust. No one with sense would expect a candle to burn forever, so why should a flame kindled in bed?
You asked what the Londoners wanted of you, and he…he said ‘ballocks.
Yesterday I heard some of the castle servants talking about a funeral for one of the stable lads. He went skating last week on the pond in the village, but the ice was not thick enough and he drowned....
Whilst stupidity may indeed be a sin, it is also possible to be too clever. I sometimes fear, John, that you are too clever by half.
War is the least productive of men’s pastimes, and the most indulgent.
May I offer you some advice?I'd rather you offered me a fast horse and a head start, Richard said with a tight smile. But I'll take the advice, too.
Marriage was a Sacrament, yet these festivities more often resembled pagan rites than Christian nuptials.
How fragile life was, how fleeting their days on earth, and how fickle was Death, claiming the young as often as the old, the healthy as often as the ailing, cruelly stealing away a baby’s first breat...
He was dying as he’d lived, and that made it so much harder for those who loved him. But then she remembered what she’d been told about his father’s wretched last hours. After learning that John had b...
He could not change his nature, could not help being cautious, deliberate, introspective, not traits to be scorned by any means, but traits that seemed dull, bland—even to him—when compared with Davyd...
He believed that his superior intellect mattered more than his physical defects and saw no reason why he must defer to these fortunate young men with handsome faces and healthy bodies and empty heads.
Hal and Richard show all the good will of Cain and Abel.