“The hero of the medieval Church militant, the knight in shining armour, is the most perfect Apollonian thing in world history. Art books need to be rewritten: there is a direct line from Greek and Roman sculpture through medieval armour to the Renaissance revival of classicism. Arms and armour are not handicrafts but art. They carry the symbolic weight of western personality. Armour is the pagan continuity in medieval Christianity.” - Camille Paglia, sexual Personae