Books
Medieval Women by A vivid account of the everyday life of the lady, the townswoman, the peasant & the nun in the Middle Ages. Heavily illustrated with drawings from contemporary manuscripts & works of art.
The Miserable Life of Medieval Peasants by Disgusting food. Stinky houses. Scratchy clothes. Find out how medieval peasants coped with their miserable lives.
Medieval Castles by Wish you could live in a castle? Be careful what you wish for. Find out why medieval castles were definitely not palaces.
The Great Transition by In the fourteenth century the Old World witnessed a series of profound and abrupt changes in the trajectory of long-established historical trends. Transcontinental networks of exchange fractured and an era of economic contraction and demographic decline dawned from which Latin Christendom would not begin to emerge until its voyages of discovery at the end of the fifteenth century. In a major new study of this 'Great Transition', Bruce Campbell assesses the contributions of commercial recession, war, climate change, and eruption of the Black Death to a far-reaching reversal of fortunes from which no part of Eurasia was spared. The book synthesises a wealth of new historical, palaeo-ecological and biological evidence, including estimates of national income, reconstructions of past climates, and genetic analysis of DNA extracted from the teeth of plague victims, to provide a fresh account of the creation, collapse and realignment of Western Europe's late medieval commercial economy.
The History of the Medieval World by A masterful narrative of the Middle Ages, when religion became a weapon for kings all over the world. In her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World, Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might. But in the years between the fourth and twelfth centuries, rulers had to find new justification for their power, and they turned to divine truth or grace to justify political and military action. Right began to replace might as the engine of empire. Not just Christianity and Islam but also the religions of the Persians, the Germans, and the Mayas were pressed into the service of the state. Even Buddhism and Confucianism became tools for nation building. This phenomenon--stretching from the Americas all the way to Japan--changed religion, but it also changed the state. The History of the Medieval World is a true world history, linking the great conflicts of Europe to the titanic struggles for power in India and Asia. In its pages, El Cid and Guanggaeto, Julian the Apostate and the Brilliant Emperor, Charles the Hammer and Krum the Bulgarian stand side by side. From the schism between Rome and Constantinople to the rise of the Song Dynasty, from the mission of Muhammad to the crowning of Charlemagne, from the sacred wars of India to the establishment of the Knights Templar, this erudite book tells the fascinating, often violent story of kings, generals, and the peoples they ruled.
The Medieval Plague by Swollen bodies and bloody sores meant death for people in the Middle Ages. Find out about the disease that made medieval people believe the world was ending.Suggested Databases
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Films
"Heresy, War, and the Black Death: Christianity in the 13th and 14th Centuries"
"Heresy, War, and the Black Death: Christianity in the 13th and 14th Centuries"