Wish I'd said that - August 27, 2015
“Today, we are perhaps more acutely aware of the continuity of history. We value the Middle Ages as providing not so much the foundation as the pattern of our civilization. We appreciate more the underlying identity of our twentieth-century way of life with that of our medieval predecessors. We have to study the Middle Ages not merely as a foundation but for their own sake. They were a period when our own constitutional ideals and traditions, which still continue and without which our civilization cannot live, were simply and vigorously expressed.”
Bertie Wilkinson CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL ENGLAND 1216-1399, VOL. 1