That whole heroic notion of the women warriors known as Amazons is extremely appealing. It was appealing in antiquity, and, throughout the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, they're always portrayed as heroic, courageous, and the equals of men, and that's just extremely attractive and has been since antiquity.

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

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.

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

Those who like to interpret historical facts symbolically may recognize in this the spirit of a specifically "modern" conception of the world which permits the subject to assert itself against the object as something independent and equal; whereas classical antiquity did not as yet permit the explicit formulation of this contrast; and whereas the Middle Ages believed the subject as well as the object to be submerged in a higher unity.