Fantastic beasts, and where to find them, are featured in a resource that offers images of real animals that just might have given rise to some of mythic creatures of legend.

Defines and describes the weapons commonly used in medieval times when attacking a castle.

Site with recipes of Anglo-Saxon and Medieval times from the British Museum Cookbook.

A nice description of the literary genre known as "travel literature" as it was seen during the Middle Ages in Europe. The author notes that many times, medieval writers would make up exotic creatures to entertain their readers.

This is a primary source document written by William of Tyre tracing the political problems surrounding Christianity's efforts to regain the Holy Land, at the time of the Third Crusade.

This resource deals with Shakespeare's life, society, drama, art, music, politics and history of that time. The full text to many of Shakespeare's plays is also included.

This section on the life and times of Shakespeare addresses the stories behind his 'histories'.

Clear and concise overview of the kinds of clothing worn during the medieval period by different classes of persons: peasants, royalty, clerics.

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.

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.

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.

This is a primary source document written by Aymeric, Patriarch of Antioch, to King Louis VII of Franceat the time of the Third Crusade.

This useful tutorial includes information about the economy, feudalism, the Holy Roman Empire and other important topics pertaining to Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, a time of transition in European history. Easy to...

Highlights from an exhibition of painted manuscripts from the late Middle Ages. Find examples of a range of works from the time, along with audio files of commentaries from the exhibition's curators.

Topics available from this page include Medieval art, Renaissance art, Raphael: Italy comes to England, Later Renaissance art, Art in northern Europe, and Art in England. All of these topics are discussed in light of Shakespeare's life...

Explore what life was like during the medieval times. Among topics discover trends in clothing, food, and torture techniques of the age.

A large collection of references for researching the types of food people ate in medieval and Renaissance times, and how they prepared it.

A collection of references for researching the brewing of ale in medieval and Renaissance times.

Investigate all aspects of life during the Middle Ages from topics such as clothing, music and kings.

This site from the Modern History Sourcebook of Fordham University provides a thorough discussion of the existence of slavery in early times giving the types of people who were taken as slaves and the work they performed. There were also...

This site, which is provided for by the Fordham University, details the turbulent times in Chartres history.

This is an essay from the University of Evansville discussing the evolution of the Middle Ages and the formation of various languages that would yield literature.

On this website, students learn about the Hundred Years War from the Middle Ages and Medieval times. Investigate these series of battles fought between the English and the French.

Kids learn about the Kievan Rus from the Middle Ages and Medieval times. Explore this Eastern European empire that was the start of the Russian culture.