A Short History of the Middle Ages Fourth Edition

18 The image of the “radiant throne” is from Eugenius of Toledo, quoted in Geneviève Bührer-Thierry,
“‘Just Anger’ or ‘Vengeful Anger’? The Punishment of Blinding in the Early Medieval West,” in Anger’s
Past: The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages, ed. Barbara H. Rosenwein (Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 1998), p. 79. Return to text.