Terry Jones: "Mengapa saya merasa begitu terlatih tentang apa yang kit...

"Mengapa saya merasa begitu terlatih tentang apa yang kita pikirkan tentang orang-orang Abad Pertengahan? ... Saya kira itu karena begitu banyak suara mereka berdering di telingaku - Chaucer, Boccaccio, Henry Knighton, Thomas Walsingham. Froissart's, Jean Creton ... penulis dan sejarawan kontemporer dari periode yang menurut saya sama individu, sama hidup seperti kita hari ini. Kita perlu mengenal orang-orang ini dengan lebih baik untuk mengetahui siapa diri kita sendiri."

--- Terry Jones

Versi Bahasa Inggris

Why do I feel so exercised about what we think of the people of the Middle Ages? ... I guess it's because so many of their voices are ringing vibrantly in my ears - Chaucer's, Boccaccio's, Henry Knighton's, Thomas Walsingham's. Froissart's, Jean Creton's... writers and contemporary historians of the period who seem to me just as individual, just as alive as we are today. We need to get to know these folk better in order to know who we are ourselves.