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Medieval Sword Resource Site: European Medieval Swords
This site presents a wealth of information regarding European medieval swords. Content includes diagrams, descriptions, a sword glossary, a collector's guide, and more.
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Hemyock Castle: Feudal, Medieval, and Castle Terms
A comprehensive vocabulary list for terms extracted from medieval days.
Curated OER
Medieval and Renaissance Food: Sources, Recipes, and Articles
A large collection of references for researching the types of food people ate in medieval and Renaissance times, and how they prepared it.
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Waylands: A Brief and Concise History of Medieval Shipping
This article presents information on the development of Keels, Hulks, and Cogs, the ships of Medieval Europe. Includes diagrams, illustrations, and explanations.
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Xenophon Group: Medieval Mechanical Artillery
Contains relevant information regarding non-gunpowder weapons which were used during the Medieval period.
Curated OER
Society for Creative Anachronism: Medieval and Renaissance Brewing
A collection of references for researching the brewing of ale in medieval and Renaissance times.
Mother Earth Travel
Mother Earth Travel: Medieval Germany
A concise historical resource identifies the German dynasties during medieval times. Know who the people of Germany were from ca. 500 through the Habsburgs who came into power in the late thirteenth century.
Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
Orb for Medieval Studies: Crusades
This online reference book for medieval studies shares the speech of Pope Urban II and in-depth information about the Crusades.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Middle Ages for Kids: Becoming a Medieval Knight
Kids learn about becoming a Medieval Knight during the Middle Ages and Medieval times. Start as a page, then a squire, then the dubbing ceremony on this site.
Kenyon College
Kenyon College: Marginality and Community in Medieval Europe: Heretics
An overview of heretics and a link to the different heretical groups from a project designed by students at Kenyon College. Part of a larger examination of the marginality of groups in medieval Europe.
Steven Kreis, PhD
The History Guide: Early Medieval Monasticism
A lecture regarding early medieval monasticism.
Steven Kreis, PhD
The History Guide: The Medieval World View
An article regarding the history of the medieval world view.
Steven Kreis, PhD
The History Guide: Medieval Society: The Three Orders
A lecture regarding the medieval society orders of those who work, those who fight and those who pray.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Middle Ages for Kids: History of the Medieval Knight
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.
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Ashmolean Museum: Medieval Europe Ceramic Collections
Clicking on the time classifications of medieval Europe provides pictures of the types of mugs, jugs, pots, etc. that were used.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Middlel Ages: Clothing
Clear and concise overview of the kinds of clothing worn during the medieval period by different classes of persons: peasants, royalty, clerics.
Stanford University
Stanford University: Medieval Music Birth of Polyphony
An article on the beginning of Polyphonic music during the Middle Ages. You'll also find illustrations.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Les Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry (Book of the Hours)
The complete text and artwork of a Medieval book known as a "book of the hours". It was a collection of written and visual materials dealing with each liturgical hour of the day. They were hand-made and are quite rare. This example was...
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Experiencing Medieval Literature
This article explains how 'illiterate' individuals encountered literary texts and traditions through textiles, wall paintings, sculptures, and listening to works read aloud in the Middle Ages.
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Medieval: Hildegard Von Bingen (1098 1179)
A discography of Bingen's work accompanied by a brief biography.
University of California
The History Project: 15th Century European Life Hours of Catherine of Cleves
During the late medieval period, the involvement of ordinary (lay) people within the church changed. Where the clergy and sacraments were the primary focus of medieval Catholicism, members of the laity increasingly incorporated...
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Sightseen Ltd.: Medieval Life and Times
Investigate all aspects of life during the Middle Ages from topics such as clothing, music and kings.
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Warwick Castle
Enjoy this castle as you view the rooms through the ages. This is an excellent example of a medieval castle in England. Younger students can create a character and print it out to send to the castle itself.
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