Unit Plan
Luminarium

Luminarium: Middle English Lyrics: Texts

For Students 9th - 10th
A site with links to various Middle English works and their lyrics. Several images and related links.
Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Renaissance: Florentine Art and Architecture

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Learner.org illustrates the inner and outer workings of Renaissance art and architecture in the Italian city of Florence. It also provides an example by noting some works by Michelangelo and Botticelli.
Handout
ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: Les Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry (Book of the Hours)

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Website
J. Paul Getty Trust

J. Paul Getty Museum: Imagining the Past in France: 1250 1500

For Students 9th - 10th
View highlights from an exhibition of medieval French manuscripts, whose subjects range from the religious, to the courtly, to the historical. See a slideshow (with narration) of featured works from the exhibition and sample three...
PPT
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Eat, Drink, and Be Merry

For Students 9th - 10th
Manuscript artworks accompanied by descriptions that were part of a museum art exhibit on Medieval and Renaissance food. The exhibit looked at how food was portrayed in art from those times.
Primary
University of Chicago

University of Chicago Library: The Moralized Game of Chess

For Students 9th - 10th
The subject matter of this medieval manuscript by the friar, Jacobus de Cessolis, is interesting--looking at the game of chess from a societal standpoint. Even more interesting from the viewpoint of the history of art is the illustrated...
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Library of Congress

Loc: A Video Selection of Illuminated Manuscripts

For Students 9th - 10th
A video selection of various medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, including bibles and books of hours.
Website
National Library of France

Bibliotheque Nationale De France: Tresors Carolingiens (Carolingian Treasures)

For Students 9th - 10th
All in French, but the beautiful illuminated manuscripts can be appreciated without reading the detailed explanations. Advanced French students will enjoy the audio explanations.
Primary
University of Notre Dame

Medieval Institute Library: Medieval Seals

For Students 9th - 10th
A catalogue of different kinds of medieval seals. They are organized into many categories, e.g., by institution, country, century, type of insignia, etc. Each seal is accompanied by a description and a high quality image.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Apollo 11 Stones

For Students 9th - 10th
The Apollo 11 Stones remain the oldest examples of figurative art from the African continent. Their discovery contributes to our conception of early humanity's creative attempts, before the invention of formal writing, to express their...
Article
British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Experiencing Medieval Literature

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Other

Periodo Altomedioevale E Romanico

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

Porta Lde Arte: Educacion Artistica

For Students 6th - 8th
This is an educational portal which contains learning activities in the area of visual arts for middle school age students.
Interactive
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Joust Challenge

For Students 3rd - 8th
Test your knowledge of medieval knights and armor by playing this interactive jousting game.
Handout
Birmingham Museums Trust (UK)

Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery: Medieval

For Students 2nd - 5th
Check out this site to learn about medieval times! Learn about the type of homes, clothes, religion, events, and medicine found in the medieval time period.
Website
British Library

British Library: Illuminating the Renaissance: Flemish Manuscripts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A selection of high-quality images from the Flemish manuscripts in the British Library along with a timeline of contemporary European events.
Website
National Library of Scotland

National Library of Scotland: Digital Archive: The Murthly Hours

For Students 9th - 10th
Browse pages from the Murthly Hours, a kind of prayer book popular in medieval Europe, with many, many illuminated illustrations depicting scenes from the Hebrew and Christian scriptures.
Handout
ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: Late Gothic Painting

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about artists of the Late Gothic Period and see many examples of their work. Hieronymus Bosch is among the artists explored at this site.
Primary
British Library

British Library: The Priceless Lindisfarne Gospels

For Students 9th - 10th
A page-through exploration of the duly famous Lindisfarne gospels, an extraordinary illuminated manuscript of the seventh century. Includes helpful commentaries, which can be read or listened to, and a magnifying glass for looking at the...
Website
National Library of France

National Library of France: Utopia : The Quest for the Ideal Society

For Students 9th - 10th
An online exhibit examining the history of utopia as revealed through story and art. Organized into four sections, "Utopia" takes viewers on a visual tour of utopian society has it has been interpreted by the ancients, in the bible,...
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Curated OER

Art and Architecture: Four Paintings: Bernardo Daddi: Triptych

For Students 9th - 10th
Daddi's fourteenth-century triptych of the Virgin and Child.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Key Concepts: Serfdom

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for a high school world history course. This section assesses students' knowledge of serfdom, and specifically its impact on feudalism.
Website
Other

The Castles of Wales

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource includes an index and maps of castles in Wales, plus essays, glossary of castle words, FAQ's, plus other information related to castles.
Graphic
Curated OER

Etc: Clip Art Etc: The City of Constantinople (Byzantium)

For Students 9th - 10th
Byzantine Constantinople had been the capital of a Christian empire, see Christendom, successor to ancient Greece and Rome. Throughout the Middle Ages Constantinople was Europe's largest and wealthiest city, known as the Queen of Cities...

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