Medieval History

Sally Martin, Language Arts


Primary Resources


British History
http://www.britannia.com/history/
Britannia's History Department has the internet's most comprehensive treatment of Britain's history from the prehistoric era to modern times. Edited by David Nash Ford, the department features timelines, narrative histories, original source documents and important texts, biographies, maps, glossaries, reading lists, informative articles by guest writers, interviews and more. Excellent resource of British History.

British History
http://www.british-history.com/
Choose the Medieval Button at the top of the page for info on the Hundred Years War and War of the Roses.

Medieval England
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/medieval_britain_index.htm
Excellent Site!

British History
http://www.great-britain.co.uk/history/history.htm

English History and Heritage
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/

Eyewitness to History
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/eyindx.htm
Your ringside seat to history - from the Ancient World to the present. History through the eyes of those who lived it, presented by Ibis Communications, Inc. a digital publisher of educational programming.

Internet Medieval Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html

Medieval History
http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/Medieval.html

Medieval Literature and History Page
http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/medieval.html

Medieval Europe: History Index, WWW Virtual Library
http://www.msu.edu/~georgem1/history/medieval.htm

Medieval History Gateway
http://www.academicinfo.net/histmed.html
Directory of Online Resources. Sections include: digital publications ; Medieval Literature ; Social History ; Women in Medieval Europe ; Medieval Philosophy ; Byzantium ; Teaching the Middle Ages.

Medieval History
http://www.netserf.org/History/






Secondary Resources


Battle of Hastings
http://www.battle1066.com/index.html

The Battle of Hastings: 1066 and much more-A very brief Synopsis
http://www.infokey.com/hon/hastings.htm

The Battle of Hastings
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/normans/hastings_01.shtml
Excellent Site for INfo

The Thomas à Becket Story
http://www.digiserve.com/peter/becket.htm

St. Thomas Becket
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14676a.htm

The Story Behind Thomas à Becket
http://www.digiserve.com/peter/becket.htm

The Black Death: Bubonic Plague
http://www.byu.edu/ipt/projects/middleages/LifeTimes/Plague.html

The Black Death 1347 - 1350
http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/fleas/bdeath/bdeath.html

The Great Famine (1315-1317) and the Black Death (1346-1351)
http://www.ku.edu/kansas/medieval/108/lectures/black_death.html

Official Site of Canterbury Cathedral
http://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/
For at least fourteen hundred years the worship of God has been offered on the site of this Cathedral, and through the prayers of the Church His power and grace have shaped human lives.

Canterbury - The History
http://www.thycotic.com/guide/general/history.html

William Caxton
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~neils/renaissance/caxton.htm

William Caxton
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03469a.htm

William Caxton (c.1422 - c.1491)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/caxton_william.shtml

The Life of Chaucer
http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/

Geoffrey Chaucer (ca.1343-1400)
http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/chaucer.htm

Crusades
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04543c.htm

Medieval Crusades
http://www.medievalcrusades.com/

The Domesday Book
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/domesday.htm

The Domesday Book Online
http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/
This site has been set up to enable visitors to find out the history of the Domesday Book and to give an insight into life at the time of its compilation. This site does not contain all the information contained in the original text, however does include a list of every settlement existing in 1086.

Domesday Book
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/FocusOn/domesday/the_story/intronfr.htm
Domesday Book is a famous document, but the story behind it starts with an even more famous battle - the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Read about the dramatic events that led to the creation of the Domesday Book.

Feudal LIfe
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/feudal.html

The Feudal System
http://themiddleages.tripod.com/feudal_system.htm

History of Parliament
http://www.histparl.ac.uk/

The Hundred Years' War (1336-1565)
http://www.ku.edu/kansas/medieval/108/lectures/hundred_years_war.html

The Hundred Years' War
http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/texte/atx2_02.htm

King Arthur
http://www.britannia.com/history/h12.html

King Arthur & the Matter of Britain
http://www.legends.dm.net/kingarthur/

King Richard I - The Lionheart
http://www.templarhistory.com/richard.html

Richard I Coeur de Lion (1189-99 AD)
http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon27.html

Magna Carta - 1215
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/medieval/magframe.htm

Magna Carta
http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/magna.html

Sir Thomas Malory (ca. 1405-1471)
http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/malory.htm

Thomas Malory
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Malory

Miracle Plays and Mysteries
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10348a.htm

Mystery and miracle plays in English drama
http://njnj.essortment.com/mysteryplays_rkrg.htm

Mystery and Miracle Plays
http://www.csd.k12.wi.us/JS_MYSTE.HTM

THE ROBIN HOOD PROJECT
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/rh/rhhome.stm

The Robin Hood Pages
http://www.legends.dm.net/robinhood/

Wars of the Roses History Guide
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/2719/

Wars of the Roses
http://www.warsoftheroses.com/
The Wars of the Roses were a series of civil wars fought in medieval England from 1455 to 1487 between the House of Lancaster and the House of York.

John Wycliffe
http://www.wycliffe.org/history/JWycliff.htm

John Wycliffe: Reformation Morningstar
http://www.gospelcom.net/chi/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps013.shtml

JOHN WYCLIFFE 1320 - 1384
http://www.cantonbaptist.org/halloffame/wycliffe.htm








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