In this knights activity, learners view the videos about knights and fill in the blanks to sentences about what they saw. Students complete 8 sentences and 7 spaces in a crossword.

Prepare your balloons, using barbeque skewers and straws, for a balloon joust with your friends.

Test your knowledge of medieval knights and armor by playing this interactive jousting game.

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

A clipart illustration by Phillip Martin titled "State Sport of Maryland - Jousting."

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

This relief shows a sporting competition of boatmen in a small stream or pond full of water lilies.

Have you ever wondered why King Henry VIII had six wives, why he looked the way he did, or what things he liked to do? Explore this site and learn all about King Henry VIII from clothes to power to love.

Explore Tudor England by playing an interactive riddle game. Find clues to six riddles in paintings that commemorate events from Henry's life and reign.

Terrific introduction to the Middle Ages, in Spanish. Learn about the people, cities, and life by clicking through beautifully illustrated screens while a jester narrates. Click objects, e.g., the castle gate, a cathedral door, or a...

Transcript of a document instructing the poet Chaucer, as Clerk of the Works, to oversees the building of jousting tournament scaffolds.

The year is 897, and Pope Stephen VI has ordered the eight-month-old corpse of his predecessor removed from its vault at St. Peter's. The former, and very dead, pope is clad in his old pontifical vestments, placed on a throne in a Roman...

Richard II of England reigned in a time of restive change brought on by Black Death. His personal view of kingship and his military decisions are highlighted as significant factors in his loss of the throne. The author offers the opinion...

Created for the high school student who is taking classes in European history.

Middle Ages