- Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340-1400)@
Discover Chaucer, the first major poet in the English language after Norman conquest who invented metre and other poetic conventions. Sites offer bio, medieval background, seminars, excerpts, glossary, and study resources for the poet and his poetic epics, The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Poets/Chaucer__Geoffrey__1340_1400_
- St. Bede (673-735)@
Read about Bede, Benedictine monk, author, and scholar, declared English Doctor of the Church for his contributions to Catholicism. Sites offer biography, religious and cultural settings of his life and times, and historical and theological works of the author known as the Father of English History for his famous work The Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Saints/Bede__673_735_
- Medieval Sourcebook: Legal History
Collects the various online texts related to the history of law.
www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook-law.html
- Online Medieval and Classical Library
Collection of important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.
sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL
- William of Ockham (1280?-1347?)@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Philosophers/William_of_Ockham__1280__1347__
- Wikipedia: Runic Alphabet
Detailed compilation of the ancient alphabets that used runes to write Germanic languages.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_alphabet
- Middle Ages, Chivalry, & Knighthood
Thorough listing of links on all things related to the medieval era in Europe. Includes timelines, glossaries, and trivia.
www.teacheroz.com/Middle_Ages.htm
- Medieval Macabre
Examines the supernatural and fantastic imagery of the Middle Ages. Features illustrations of medieval devils, demons, witches, and monsters.
www.godecookery.com/macabre/macabre.htm
- World of the Vikings Project
Vikings related resources links and information about the World of the Vikings Project, led by the National Museum of Denmark and the York Archaeological Trust.
www.worldofthevikings.com
- Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport to the Middle Ages
Learn about feudalism, primogeniture, christendom, the Huns, barbarians, the Byzantine empire, the Moors, the Franks and Charlemagne, Vikings, Normans, and the bubonic plague.
www.mrdowling.com/703middleages.html
- The Glory of Byzantium
Online exploration of Byzantium from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.
www.metmuseum.org/explore/Byzantium/byzhome.html
- Avalon Project: Magna Carta
Yale University's glossary on the Great Charter, the Magna Carta of 1215. Offers a full range of term definitions as well as an index of topics.
www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/medieval/magframe.htm
- Middle Ages, The
Covering feudal life, religion, homes, clothing, health, arts, and town life. Produced by the Annenberg Foundation and CPB.
www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages
- Kingdom of the East@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Kingdoms/Kingdom_of_the_East
- Angelcynn
A living history society which aims to recreate, as authentically as possible, the richness of the birth of a nation which has passed into legend and into lore.
www.angelcynn.org.uk
- Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture
Exhibit from the Library of Congress.
lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/vatican/toc.html
- Enlightenment, The
Outline of the development and major ideas of the European Enlightenment.
www.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/enlightenment.html
- Genealogy of the Royal Family of The Netherlands
Extended genealogy of the House of Orange-Nassau, from Johann V of Nassau (1455-1516) to Juliana Guillermo (b1981).
www.xs4all.nl/~kvenjb/gennl.htm
- History of the Crusades
Designed for college credit, but open for browsing to the general public.
crusades.boisestate.edu
- Tepes, Vlad (1431 - 1476)@
dir.yahoo.com/.../People/Tepes__Vlad__1431___1476_
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