Medieval Society
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Medieval Society and Culture Medieval society was different, but not so different as to be totally alien to what we experience in the 20th century. In the 14th century, people were born, grew up, fell in love, married, had children, and died. People ate, got sick, took baths, dressed up for special occasions, went to church, attended wedding receptions, gossiped, got drunk, went to work with hangovers, committed adultery, beat their spouses, looked after their elderly parents, grieved for their dead, went off to war, engaged in unprotected sex as adolescents., celebrated Christmas, went skinnydipping, kept dogs as pets, and consulted horoscopes.
Medieval Society and Culture
Middle Ages for Kids - Kidipede - History for Kids
How Would You Survive in the Middle Ages , by Fiona MacDonald and David Salariya (1997). Funny pictures and text convey real history about the Middle Ages. Knights & Castles : 50 Hands-On Activities to Experience the Middle Ages, by Avery Hart and Paul Mantell (1998). Part of a series of good hands-on activities books. Medieval Life (DK Eyewitness Books 2004).
Medieval History Resources on the Internet
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Medieval Children - Daily Life for Children in the Middle Ages
Recent scholarship has shed some much-needed light on the lives of medieval children and dispelled many misconceptions about how they were regarded and treated by their elders. These sites offer some details of daily life for children in the Middle Ages. The first in a series of articles exploring the status and daily life of children in the Middle Ages, Part I examines the concept of childhood, the importance of children, and the question of affection in the medieval family.Children's Gateway History - Medieval
100,000 images and sounds from the collections of the British Library. Maps, old newspapers, advertisements. Click on Collections and explore old maps of London; visit a Virtual Exhibition of Durham Cathedral; go on a tour of the old East End of London. Covers all aspects of history from Key Stage 3 to A Level. Topics include WW1, Hitler, Nazi Germany, Inventions of the 20th Century plus much more. Very easy to use.
Update Information 2006: In 2006 the Internet Medieval Sourcebooks and associated sourcebooks are undergoing a major overhaul to remove bad links and add more documents. 2. This project is both very large and fairly old in Internet terms. At the time it was instigated (1996), it was not clear that web sites [and the documents made available there] would often turn out to be transient.
