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“Guido A. Guarino, Boccaccio, Concerning Famous Women (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1963)”
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) said by 1375 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I trapped my breath in the bellows of my throat, and a lamp blazed up inside, showing me who I really was. I crossed the darkness holding fast to that lamp.”
Lalleshwari (1320–1392) said by 1392 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And ich wulle uaren to Aualun to uairest alre maidene. to Argante þere quene aluen swiðe sceone. & heo scal mine wunden makien alle isunde. al hal me makien mid haleweiye drenchen. And seoðe ich cumen wulle. to mine kineriche. and wunien mid Brutten mid muchelere wunne.”
Layamon (1200–1300) said by 1300 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Malik Naib Kafur marched on to Ma'bar, which he also took. He destroyed the golden idol temple (but-khanah i-zarin) of Ma'bar, and the golden idols which for ages had been worshipped by the Hindus of that country. The fragments of the golden temple, and of the broken idols of gold and gilt became the rich spoil of the army”
Alauddin Khalji (1266–1316) first seen 1296 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About Sultan ‘Alau’d-Din Khalji (AD 1296-1316) conquests in Ma‘bar (Tamil Nadu) Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own historians, Vol. III, p. 204
Also quoted by: Ziauddin Barani
“The final emancipation called mokhsha for the beings who are bound to the problems of samsara can be attained by intense devotion to the Lord with the true knowledge of HIM.”
Madhvacharya (1238–1317) said by 1317 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mir Sayyid ‘Ali Hamadani (1314-1385) began to get Hindu temples demolished and the Hindus converted by reckless use of force throughout his sojourn in Kashmir...”
Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani (1314–1385) said by 1385 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Harsh Narain, Myths of Composite Culture and Equality of Religions (1990)
“How can someone have the freedom to choose and the power to act freely, unless he were able to be evil, should he so wish?”
Gregory Palamas (1296–1359) said by 1359 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing so fills the heart with contrition and humbles the soul as solitude embraced with self-awareness, and utter silence.”
Gregory of Sinai (1255–1346) said by 1346 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In his khutba (sermon), Nizamuddin Auliya condemned the infidels as wicked, saying, ‘He (Allah) has created Paradise and Hell for believers and the infidels (respectively) in order to repay the wicked for what they have done.’”
Nizamuddin Auliya (1238–1325) said by 1325 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nizami KA (1991a) The Life and Times of Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya, New Delhi, Nizami (1991a), p. 185, quoted in Khan, M. A. (2011). Islamic Jihad: A legacy of forced conversion, imperialism and slave
“Yet Dafydd's humour does not obscure, any more than Chaucer's does, the underlying seriousness of his poetry. Behind his poems of requited and unrequited love, whether idyllic or idealizing, whether streaked by savage jealousy or a profound feeling of betrayal reminiscent of Troilus and Criseyde, there runs a sense of the cruel impermanence of the world.”
Dafydd ap Gwilym (1320–1380) said by 1380 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Patrick Sims-Williams, in Boris Ford (ed.) Medieval Literature: The European Inheritance (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983) p. 302.
“Within the bounds of the four seas, all men are brothers.”
Shi Nai'an (1290–1372) said by 1372 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Since money belongs to the community … it would seem that the community may control it as it wills, and therefore may make as much profit from alteration as it likes, and treat money as its own property.”
Nicole Oresme (1320–1382) said by 1382 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.”
Yoshida Kenkō (1283–1350) said by 1350 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 13 (tr. Keene, 1967)
“If one would a thumb|right|It is impossible for us in words to describe the ineffable dignity of the soul and we cannot in any way comprehend it prepare an empty place in the depths of the soul there can be no doubt that God must fill it at once. If there were a void on earth the heaven would fall to fill it….”
Johannes Tauler (1300–1361) said by 1361 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I acknowledge that the sacrament of the altar is very God's body in form of bread, but it is in another manner God's body than it is in heaven.”
John Wycliffe (1320–1385) said by 1385 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Wyclif, by Anthony Kenny, p. 90. (1985) published by Oxford University Press.
“...our progenitors, the kings of England, have before these times been lords of the English sea on every side...and it would very much grieve us if in this kind of defence our royal honour should be lost.”
Edward III of England (1312–1377) first seen 1336 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to his admirals (18 August 1336), quoted in Ian Mortimer, The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation (Vintage, 2008), p. 130
“Ibn Kathir (Commenting on Quran 2:256 in the unabridged version of his tafsir) - "Therefore all people of the world should be called to Islam. If anyone of them refuses to do so, or refuses to pay the jizya, they should be fought till they are killed.”
Ibn Kathir (1301–1373) said by 1373 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Purely philosophical assertions which do not pertain to theology should not be solemnly condemned or forbidden by anyone, because in connection with such [assertions] anyone at all ought to be free to say freely what pleases him.”
William of Ockham (1287–1349) said by 1349 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vol. I, Book 2, Ch. 22, as translated by John Scott (1999)
“The devastating raid of South India by Malik Kafur is best summed up in R C Majumdar’s words who characterizes it as being more “spectacular than effective…was par excellence as a predatory raid”.”
Malik Kafur (1250–1316) said by 1316 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Muhammad Tughlaq always preferred foreign Muslims to Indians for appointment as officers. The rebellion of Ain-ul-mulk Multani (1339) during his reign was a symptom of the resentment felt by the India-born nobles against this policy of prejudice.... Foreign nobles looked down upon Indian Muslim nobles, and considered them as ‘lowborn’, although not all foreign Muslims were of high lineage.”
Muhammad bin Tughluq (1290–1351) said by 1351 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 5
“The mischievous Pelagians maintain that this sort of grace is not given freely by God but is to be obtained by preceding merits. I myself was once so foolish and empty, when I first applied myself to the study of philosophy, as to be seduced by this error.”
Thomas Bradwardine (1290–1349) said by 1349 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beloved has been created in your image and sent to you in order to put you on the right path.”
Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324) said by 1324 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source