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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: The Crusade of Louis Vii

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Fordham University is a primary source document, written by Odo of Deuil, concerning the events of the Second Crusade, led by King Louis VII of France.
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Marco Polo: The Glories of Kinsay

For Students 9th - 10th
Actual text of Marco Polo that describes "The Glories of Kinsay."
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Procopius: Secret History, Extracts

For Students 9th - 10th
Fordham University offers extracts from the "Secret History," written by Procopius, describing the dark side of Justinian's rule.
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Casteland: Medieval French Castles

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides pictures, background information, and visual tours of many famous castles.
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South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: Artopia: Painting Critic: Madonna and Child Enthroned (Medieval Triptych)

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource about the triptych Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints and Angels by Giovanni dal Ponte. Includes links for more information about the triptych and artist as well as a link to "My Portfolio", a place to save or print...
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Sadi

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Fordham University contains a copy of Sa'di's poem "The Bustan".
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Urban's Speech at Council of Clermont

For Students 9th - 10th
Fordham University provides an account of the speech given by Poper Urban II, in which he called for the First Crusade. Urban gave the speech at the Council of Clermont in 1095. This version of the speech is the recorded memory of the...
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Pope's Call for the 1st Crusade

For Students 9th - 10th
Fordham University provides an account of Urban II's speech, in which he called for the First Crusade. Given at the Council of Clermont in 1095, this version of the speech was written by Robert the Monk 25 years after the actual event.
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Battle of the Yarmuk

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Fordham University provides an early writing describing the battle of Yarmuk, at which the Muslims defeated the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius and his army.
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: The Fiasco at Damascus 1148

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a primary source document, written by William of Tyre and available from the Fordham University, dealing with the events surrounding the Second Crusade.
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Fall of the Roman Empire in the West

For Students 9th - 10th
From Edward Gibbon's "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," this is a comprehensive discussion of the reasons for the collapse of the western Roman Empire.
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Letters of Theodoric

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Fordham University contains the text of several letters written by the Romanized Germanic King Theodoric.
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Nuremburg Online: Mediaeval Dungeons

For Students 9th - 10th
This site on the Mediaeval Dungeons of Nuremberg provides information on its history, the system of justice, the prison and torture chamber, and the procedures for execution.
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University of St. Thomas: Virtual Medieval Church: Chaucer: Canterbury Tales

For Students 9th - 10th
Fictionalized Geoffrey Chaucer introduces, you, the reader to The Canterbury Tales.
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wikiHow

Wiki How: How to Create and Draw a Celtic Knot

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn to draw a Celtic knot, an interlacing form of decoration used by the ancient Celts and adopted by medieval artists.
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Stephen Byrne

History for Kids: The Amazing Middle Ages

For Students 2nd - 7th Standards
History for Kids presents a website with learning modules on the Early, Late and High Middle Ages, including topics such as medieval literature, architecture, and daily life. Offers elementary level format with pictures, and links to...
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Manuscript Illuminators

For Students 9th - 10th
Artcyclopedia maintains an impressive list of links related to known medieval European manuscript illuminators, from the 13th century to the 16th. Page includes links to museum sites and archives where images of illumination can be...
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Periodo Altomedioevale E Romanico

For Students 9th - 10th
View all of the many pictures representing Romanesque art forms. Descriptions are in English and Italian.
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: "Ivanhoe"

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of Sir Walter Scott's medieval romance and swaschbuckler Ivanhoe (1819)
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Yale University

Yale University: Woman Under Monasticism

For Students 9th - 10th
Several chapters from a text published in 1963. This site is a scholarly study of the life of women in a medieval convent.
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Princeton University

The Charrette Project

For Students 9th - 10th
An outstanding example of what can be done on the web around the editing of a medieval text (Chretien de Troyes's "Le Chevalier de la Charrette"). It includes a critical edition, variants, a modern French translation, manuscript...
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Internet FAQ Archive

Faq Archives: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society: Family Patterns

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The structure of families in medieval and modern times, and the patterns they follow are examined. These include topics such as household composition, age of marriage, life expectancy, inheritance customs, financial resources, disruptive...
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Saint John's University: The Saint John's Bible

For Students 9th - 10th
A demonstration of the art of a twenty-first-century calligrapher working in the medieval tradition of manuscript illumination, the Saint John's Bible is an artist-made version of the of sacred scriptures of Judaism and Christianity....
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Categories by Aristotle

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of The Categories by Aristotle. The Categories places every object of human apprehension under one of ten categories (known to medieval writers as the Latin term predicament). Aristotle intended them to enumerate...

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