The Pillars of the Earth on The Song of Roland: “"I know 'The Song of Roland,' and 'The Pilgrimage of William of Orange'—" "What do you mean, you know them?" "I can recite them."”
The Pillars of the Earth on The Romance of Alexander: “One Sunday Aliena read "The Romance of Alexander" to him, just for a change. "It's called 'The Romance of Alexander.' It's the story of a king called Alexander the Great..."”
The Pillars of the Earth on Poem on Medicine: “They were the classics: Avicenna's Poem on Medicine, Hippocrates' Diet and Hygiene, Galen's On the Parts of Medicine, and De Urinis by Isaac Judaeus.”
The Pillars of the Earth on On Regimen: “They were the classics: Avicenna's Poem on Medicine, Hippocrates' Diet and Hygiene, Galen's On the Parts of Medicine, and De Urinis by Isaac Judaeus.”
The Pillars of the Earth on On the Parts of Medicine: “They were the classics: Avicenna's Poem on Medicine, Hippocrates' Diet and Hygiene, Galen's On the Parts of Medicine, and De Urinis by Isaac Judaeus.”
The Pillars of the Earth on De Urinis: “They were the classics: Avicenna's Poem on Medicine, Hippocrates' Diet and Hygiene, Galen's On the Parts of Medicine, and De Urinis by Isaac Judaeus.”