A poem from Emily Dickinson, "By Chivalries as Tiny", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Jeff Kiok and can access a printable version of this piece.

Tom Richey offers a 54 slide presentation with maps on Medieval Europe and informs us about the Franks, Feudalism and Chivalry in the Middle Ages.

A concise overview of the practice of chivalry towards the end of the middle ages.

A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of Heroes of Chivalry and Romance by Alfred John Church, a fiction book for children.

History Questions: Tournaments and Chivalry Quiz, Test, and WebQuest

Kids learn about tournaments, jousts, and the Knight's Code of Chivalry during the Middle Ages and Medieval times on this website.

The Southern way of life fostered a social code of chivalry and genteelism. Read about what was considered honorable and proper for both aristocratic men and women.

A detailed analysis of the orders and codes that governed the behavior of knights.

This is a comprehensive unit on British and Celtic mythology that includes background information linking the two and vocabulary terms. British mythology focuses on legends of knights and kings; audio clips of several excerpts from Age...

This site provides the complete etext for the Charles Dickens work, Miscellaneous Papers.

In addition to providing both Modern English and Middle English texts of Malory's "Morte d'Arthur, Luminarium provides several biographies, and essays on Malory and his works.

A digital exhibit that provides two tours containing links to electronic versions of the text along with illustrations taken from the novel.

Deposition from the Scrope-Grosvenor Trial, one of two "autobiographical statements" attributed to Chaucer. Includes a description of Chaucer's coat-of-arms.

Unfortunately, "literary" writing was not as simple and direct as political writing. When trying to write poetry, most educated authors stumbled into the pitfall of elegant neoclassicism. The epic, in particular, exercised a fatal...

Not all manuscripts during the Middle Ages and Renaissance were religious in nature. This period abounded with volumes that contained histories, romances, fables, and legal and scientific writings. The rise of universities paralleled the...

This is a large site from American Treasures covering primary source documents from the early 1800s through the Civil War and on to Western Expansion.

Read the full text of the novel "The Brethren" by H. Rider Haggard. Set during the Crusades, this is a story of love and chivalry as two English knights vie for the love of the same maiden.

Note on the jousting tournament and its cultural meaning and literary representation (such as in Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale").

Explore the popularity of the story of King Arthur and the way that the people, places and things associated with King Arthur have become symbolic to people around the world. While part of this lesson calls for viewing a video on King...

Here you can learn more about the story of Camelot as it has been told for hundreds of years--including the myth of Camelot, the Round Table, and the sword Excalibur.

Use this site to learn about Christine de Pisan, a writer of the Middle Ages well known for her poems, songs, and ballads.

Kids learn about the history of knights from the Middle Ages and Medieval times including military orders, the first knights, and the end of the fighting knight.