The Mediterranean World The peoples who inhabited the semi-arid shores of the Mediterranean were united in a common world view - as the name suggests, they saw themselves as living at the center of the world. The region, similar in size to that of the Caribbean, had seen the rise and fall of several civilizations and, in the late 15th century, was again in flux. Prosperous city states were on the rise amidst the decline of medieval feudal society. Renewed interest in Greek and Roman cultures f ...

back to Scriptorium Notes on Fourteenth-Century History I. The Hundred Years War (1337-1453) A. Beginnings England, 1327: Edward III becomes king France, 1328: Philippe VI (de Valois) ignores better claim of Edward of England, ascends throne 1337: Edward claims French throne, war begins B. Major Battles Crécy, 26 Aug. 1346: English bowmen defeat a far superior force led by Philippe VI; French losses (ca. 11,000, incl. 1,200 knights) exceed entire English army. Poitie ...

In 1995 AirFlow Design placed a short page on the World Wide Web describing the last stand of Byrhtnoth, Earl of Essex, against a Viking horde in the year of our Lord, 991. A thousand years ago, an anonymous Anglo Saxon writer immortalised the event with the now famous poem, and in the past 2 years our site has become a major World Wide Web resource for the Battle of Maldon, 991AD. C O N T E N T S IMPORTANT NOTE: Click HERE to launch a new browser window with the Appendix containing high ...

A Concise Guide to Medieval Instruments Chalumeau: A simple rustic reed-pipe, an ancestor of the clarinet, with 6 to 8 finger-holes. Also applied to the shawm, and to the double-reed bagpipe chanter. Very similar in design to the Pocket Clarinet pictured here. Dulcimer: A shallow closed box over which are stretched wires to be struck with 2 wooden hammers held in the player's hands. Also known as a Cimbalon. The name is also wrongly applied to certain plucked zither-like folk-instrumen ...

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Directory of Royal Genealogical Data At this site I have a database containing the genealogy of the British Royal family and those linked to it via blood or marriage relationships. It contains, in fact, the genealogy of almost every ruling house in the western world because of the intermarriage that took place between them at some time or another. There are in excess of 30,000 individuals from the earliest times to the present in the database. The date spread of the records is available for tho ...

They were wives and writers, lovers and soldiers, mothers and midwives, scientists and traders. The day-to-day lives of medieval women of all classes and callings are often glossed over in modern history courses in favor of sequences of events. Not so here. This is the City of Women. The City of Women was a book written by one of the most active feminists among medieval women, Christine de Pisan. The book was essentially a treatise on decorum for women of all classes and occupations. Our w ...

Medieval Europe The Magna Carta Medieval Proofs for the Existence of God Selections from Aquinas' Summa Theologica: On War On Killing On Cheating with Regard to Buying and Selling On Usury On Lying On Drunkenness On Lust Literature and the Middle Time Important Dates in Medieval History Quiz . . . Chronology Essays Images Internet Sites Texts In history texts, medieval European history often goes by its older soubriquet, the Middle Ages. Typically, th ...

The End of Europe's Middle Ages: Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries This tutorial has moved. The End of Europe's Middle Ages is designed to assist those students engaged in Renaissance, Reformation and Early Modern studies who lack a background in medieval European history. Intended to provide a brief overview of the conditions at the end of Europe's Middle Ages, the tutorial is presented in a series of chapters that summarize the economic, political, religious and intellectual enviro ...

11 November 1995 (Electronic Version 8.3 - 26 October 2001) Copyright Acknowledgements Introduction What's New? Glossary of Historical Shoemaking Historical Shoes Tools and Techniques Shoe Designs and Discussions: General Research General Instructions for Making Shoes for Re-enactors and Others Bibliography Links MARC-CARLSON@UTULSA.EDU (LIB_IMC@CENTUM.UTULSA.EDU; (old) LIB_IMC@VAX1.UTULSA.EDU; (old) IMC@VAX2.UTULSA.EDU)) Footwear of the Middle Ages, Copyright © 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 I. Marc Carlson

Chivalry KidzonE Cool Stuff for Children of all Ages Medieval Nobles In the Middle Ages, noblemen were the rulers. It was their duty to insure that the peasants and churchmen were defended so that they could live in peace and act as judges to handle disputes. The name comes from the belief that they were to act in a noble manner. Noblemen were themselves ranked from highest to lowest: Title What you called them Their domain was called a... King / Queen" ...

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Books La Serbie Au Moyen Age/ Srbija u Srednjem Veku/ Serbia in the Middle Ages Editor: Sima C'irkovic' Publisher: Tous droits re'serv'es; Edition: Zodiaque ; Year: MCMXCII (1992); Congress Library Classification: DR1978.C57X.1992 1-Size ; Previous Edition: 1992 Editoriale Jaca Book, Milano, Pour l`e'dition italienne publie'e sous le titre "I Serbi nel Medioevo" Monasteries Studenica Monastery 1 2 3 4 5 Hilandar Monastery at the Holy Mountain Atos in Greece Sent Ge ...

The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies Sponsored by Georgetown University ita Daedalus implet / innumeras errore vias vixque ipse reverti / ad limen potuit. (Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.166-68). Unlike the domus Daedali, the Labyrinth is designed with clear paths. You will have Ariadne's Thread to follow as you explore the innumeras vias. For up-to-date information, please visit labyrinth.georgetown.edu The new Labyrinth runs on Web/database technology that allows you to sort ...

Les Seigneurs de Bohon (The Noblemen of Bohun) The following material is excerpted from Les Seigneurs de Bohon by Jean LeMelletier, Coutances: Arnaud-Bellee, 1978. This was translated from French to English by a friend. The book was found at UCLA's Research Library as CS 439 D416L45 1978. The present dwellers of the townships of St. Andre and St. Georges de Bohon for a longtime neglected their ancestors of the ducal era. However, when I was a child my mother told me of a beautiful coun ...

LES TRES RICHES HEURES DU DUC DE BERRY WHAT IS THE TRES RICHES HEURES? The Tres Riches Heures is _the_ classic example of a medieval book of hours. This was a collection of the text for each liturgical hour of the day - hence the name - which often included other, supplementary, texts. Calendars, prayers, psalms and masses for certain holy days were commonly included. The pictures in this directory are from the calendar section of the Tres Riches Heures. This was painted some time between 14 ...

Medieval European Recipes : COLLECTION From: "Jennifer A. Newbury" jn1t+@andrew.cmu.edu Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1993 13:26:16 -0400 I think someone a while ago requested medieval recipes. These come from _The British Museum Cookbook_ by Michelle Berriedale-Johnson (1987, British Museum Publications Ltd.). It's a great cookbook with recipes from the civilizations from the museum's collections. I personally haven't tried these recipes, but they sound interesting. I apologize in advance for any typos! ...

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Royal Genealogies -- Menu Genealogy files Index About this document This is a conversion of the ROYAL92.GED Gedcom file (from the ROOTS-L list) into a convenient HTML format (with an index), for use with WWW browsers. The initial step in the conversion process was done using the ged2html program by Gene Stark , with some re-massaging of the output into a more convenient form. More comprehensive royal genealogy information is available from Brian Tompsett over the w ...

Welcome to the Castles of Wales Web Site! Proud to be Celebrating our 10-Year Online Anniversary! Quick jump to Main Menu, Castle Index, Castle Maps or Site Search Over 200 new photographs have been recently added to the site as a result of our trip to Wales in May of 2006. Most of these you will find listed in our "What's New" section. The new photos include an updated 60-photograph tour of handsome Raglan Castle in southeast Wales, as well as several lesser-known motte castles sim ...

Sabino De Sandoli, OFM Foreword --- Cover Page Selected Bibliography I Historical perspective - 1 Jewish-Christian Period (33-135) - 2 Pagan-Roman Period (135-326) - 3 The Constantinian and Byzantine Period (326-638) - 4 Arab Period of the Umayyads, Abbasids, Fatimids (638-1071) - 5 First Seljuk Turkish Period (1071-1098) - 6 The Brief Egyptian-Arab Period (1098-1099) - 7 First Crusader Period (1099-1187) - 8 Second Egyptian-Arab Period: the Ayyubids (1187-1229) - 9 Second Crusad ...

The game of Piquet or Cent , the game's English name in period, has been played since at least the end of the 15th century. It is mentioned in literary and scholarly works as diverse as Rabelais's Gargantua et Pantagruel (1534) and Girolamo Cardano's Liber de Ludo Aleae (Book on Games of Chance, 1564), a treatise on probability theory. One of the earliest instruction manuals for a card game was Le Royal Ieu du Piquet Plaisant et recreatif, The Royal and Delightfull Game of Piquet. To Play Piqu ...

What Are Runes? Runes are an alphabetic script used by the peoples of Northern Europe from the first century c.e. until well into the Middle Ages. In addition to their use as a written alphabet, the runes also served as a system of symbols used for magic and divination. Runes fell into disuse as the Roman alphabets became the preferred script of most of Europe, but their forms and meanings were preserved in inscriptions and manuscripts. The primary characteristic which distinguishes a ru ...

The West Takes the Offensive With the collapse of Charlemagne’s empire and the development of feudalism, Europe showed little immediate potential for the development of political and economic power. But during this period the growth of trade and commerce broke up the manorial system, new social classes were formed and the society of the West became changed in the process. The Muslims were successfully challenged in Sicily and this ended the complete control by the Muslims of the Mediterranean ...

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Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature Thomas J. Mathiesen, DirectorPeter Slemon, Associate Director TML Project and Editorial Committees Introduction to the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum and its use The Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (TML) is an evolving database of the entire corpus of Latin music theory written during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It complements but does not duplicate the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG), Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL), L ...

Welcome to TIMEREF.COM. Follow the history of Medieval Britain from the time of Alfred the Great, through the Norman Conquest and up to the start of the Tudor Age. Detailed Timelines contain events for years between 800 and 1499AD. Maps show the locations of castles, abbeys and cathedrals in England, Scotland and Wales. Every person and building on this site has its own timeline and links to related subjects. This site is labelled with ICRA Medieval History Episodes Timelines 8 ...

The Tudor Monarchs The Six Wives of Henry VIII Who's Who in Tudor History Topics in Tudor History Chronologies of People and Events Architecture Electronic Texts Genealogical Trees Glossaries of Words and Terms Reference Maps Bibliography Image Gallery Index Tudor News and Site Updates at the TudorHistory.org Blog Question and Answer Blog Lara's Personal Blog Connect With Other Tudor Fans Frequently Asked Questions Student Help Links of Interest Movies and TV Humor H ...

Wharram Percy The Lost Medieval Village Wharram Percy, located in Yorkshire, has been occupied by humans since the Iron Age. Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Normans -- all have lived out their lives in this high-wold village. As an archeological site, it was one of the most important peasant digs in England. Here you will see St. Martin's parish church, peasant house sites, and the Norman manor house. Ken Tompkins ken@loki.stockton.edu © 1996 by Kenneth Tompkins

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