PRINCE OF WALES LIBRARY
SOCIAL STUDIES 8: MIDDLE AGES

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Medieval Seige
• Find out about life in a medieval castle. Learn about the medieval arms race. Learn how to build a trebuchet and destroy the castle.

General Sites:
Middle Ages
An excellent place to start. Includes the following categories: Feudal Life, Religion, Homes, Clothing, Health, Arts and Entertainment, Town Life, and Related Resources.
• Middle Ages, Chivalry, and Knighthood
  A large collection of links grouped by topic. (Last updated July 2003 so there may be some broken links.)
CLN Medieval Theme Page
You will find links to many of your topics in this list of annotated links. Look here for food, music and dance .
• Guide to Medieval Terms
• Medieval History
  This is a very comprehensive list of sites that covers most topics on the list.
• Middle Ages: Art
  This site includes links to medieval art resources.
• The Middle Ages Trust
  Look under websites that provide medieval information.
• Medieval Sourcebook
  This site contains many links and many primary documents. Much of the material requires a good reading level.
• Medieval World
  This site has annotated links to many subjects.
• Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
  You will find excellent resources for many topics. Look here for audio music files.
• NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
• Medieval Life
  This site includes a number of topics, including chivalry, history, famine, food, health, literature.
• Who's Who in Medieval History
  This site has a brief introduction to the person, their significance, and a list of both online and print resources. Use the index on the left to select other topics.
• WWW Virtual Library of Medieval Resources

Specific Topics:
• Architecture
  This site has excellent diagrams and pictures of medieval castles, cathedrals, and towns of France.
• Knighthood, Chivalry & Tournaments Resources Library
• Armour Links
  Be sure to look at the book: Medieval Craftsmen: Armourers.
• Bayeaux Tapestry
  An excellent site that explains the tapestries scene by scene.
• Bayeux Tapestry
  This site contains scenes and other information about the tapestry.
• Battle of Hastings
• Battle of Hastings
• Battle of Hastings
  This is a very "glitzy" site. Click on the appropriate box to find more information.
• Black Death
  Good basic information.
• Black Death
  This site contains excellent information, diagrams and pictures.
• Book of Kells Images
  Note the links at the bottom of the page.
• Book of Kells
  This is a brief description from the Catholic Encyclopedia.
• Castles on the Web
  This site includes links to information on medieval castles, heraldry, churches, and abbeys.
• Medieval Castles
  Life in a medieval castle.
• Castles of the Middle Ages
  This site is a bit difficult to navigate, but it has lots of information and links.
• Medieval Castles
  Castles of Great Britain Learning Centre. You will find information on all aspects of the medieval castle.
• Cathedrals
  Links to information about Engish cathedrals, including how they were built.
• Chartres Cathedral
  This site includes floor plans and good pictures of the cathedral.
• Chivalry
  This museum exhibit includes a diagram of a knight on horseback.
• Medieval Chivalry
• Chivalry (British Orders)
• Concordat of Worms 1122
  This is the document.
• Concordat
  This Catholic Encyclopedia article explains what a concordat is. Use the edit/find in page feature of Netscape to find references to the Concordat of Worms.
• Crusades
  The Catholic Encyclopedia article is very detailed and provides lots of vocabulary help.
• Crusades
  The Medieval Source Book is written at a high level but has excellent information.
• Medieval Crusades
  This site contains a good map of the Holy Land.
• Currency Values
• Domesday Book
  This excellent resource explains what the book is about as well as giving you access to the names in the book.
• Explorers
  A list of links.
• Exploration Links
  Note: Not all these explorers are medieval. Most are from a later period - the Age of Discovery.
• Medieval Source Book: Exploration and Expansion
• Marco Polo: To China and Back
• Marco Polo: To China and Back Interactive Map
  Answer the questions correctly and draw Marco Polo's route.
• Feudalism
  This site provides links to good sites. Be sure to visit Feudal Life to find out how people lived.
• Food: Medieval and Renaissance Food Page
• Food: Renaissance and Medieval Food and Drink
  This site contains a list of links to related topics.
• The Gargoyle Hunter
  Links to Gargoyle sites.
• Guilds
  This site gives a nice introduction to what medieval guilds were. Be sure to look at the books available in the library.
• Guild Information Online
  This is a list of links to online resources.
• Heraldry on the Internet
  This is a list of links to online resources.
• Heretics
  See also:Medieval Church
  This site contains links.
• Islamic World to 1600
  Written at a fairly high level.
• Medieval Holidays
  This site has an exhaustive list of holidays with a brief explanation of each one.
  The library has an excellent book: Medieval Holidays and Festivals.
• Illuminated Texts
• Ivanhoe:
• Ivanhoe
  From Literature Online. Includes to book as well as information on the author and some analysis.
  For a summary of Ivanhoe use Masterplots. (In the reference section of the library)
• Sir Walter Scott
  Be sure to look at the related links..
• History of Jousting
  Start here for a brief explanation of the history of jousting. Use the library books for more detailed information.
• Medieval Tourney
• Magna Carta (Primary text)
• Magna Carta (In modern english)
• Medicine
  Follow the links on the page. Try your hand at medieval diagnosis.
  Use the books available in the library.
• Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
  You will find a brief description and a picture of a variety of instruments.
• Medieval Instruments
• SCA Minstrel Page
  A large collection of links to Medieval Music.
• Hildegard of Bingen
  A list of links.
  Consult The Illustrated History of Women to find out more about Hildegard of Bingen and the religious life of women in the Middle Ages.
• Medieval Pilgrims
  This site contains information about the pilgrims who passed through Dartford, England during the middle ages.
• Gutenberg Printing Press
  This is part of a much bigger German site that is in the process of translation.
  For more indepth information, use the library books.
• Johannes Gutenberg
  Look here for basic information and annotated links.
• Relics
  Scroll down to the definition.
• Medieval Relics
  A PowerPoint presentation that gives basic information and some pictures.
• Relics
  This Catholic Encyclopedia article explains what relics are.
• Sacraments
  The Middle Ages saw the formalization of the church sacraments. This site outlines the sacraments and includes primary documents. High reading level.
• Stained Glass
• A Brief History of Stained Glass
• History of Stained Glass
• Chartres Cathedral
  This site has a large collection of images of Stained glass windows in this cathedral.
  Be sure to use the book: Medieval Craftsmen: Glass Painters.
• Trade: The Spice Trade
• Trade in Anglo-Saxon England
  Early Middle Ages
• Trade and Travel in the Middle Ages
• Trade at the End of the Middle Ages
  This site contains a good map of the trade routes.
• Troubadours
• Medieval Dance
• Medieval Music
• The Vikings: PBS Nova
• The Vikings: BBC
  Lots of resources. Try the Viking Quest.
• Medieval Warfare
• Women in the Middle Ages
  Go to the bottom of the page to find the index. An excellent resource of annotated links.
• Women in the Middle Ages
• Women Knights of the Middle Ages