Psychology Information Online - Your Internet Resource about the Practice of Psychology A medieval mystery - The National Archives Tax records can tell us a great deal about life in the Middle Ages. They don’t usually come with pictures, but this one does. It is a cartoon from 1233 during the reign of King Henry III. It’s a detailed, complex cartoon and it is a bit of a mystery. It was found on an Exchequer Roll, a kind of government document recording various payments that is stored rolled up. Tasks 1. A castlePitchforksA set of scalesA womanA crownDevils 2. 3. 4. What is the man holding? 5. Who are the people shown here? 6. Who do you think he is supposed to be? 7. What do you think these characters are supposed to be? 8. Background Persecution of the Jews The terrible treatment of Jews by the Nazi Government in the 1930s and 1940s was not a new event. At the time this roll was written Jews in England were subjected to heavy taxes, had property stolen or confiscated and were sometimes attacked. Medieval Norwich In the 13th century, Norwich was one of the largest and most important towns in England. Teachers' notes Abigail
The Labyrinth Digital Libraries: Contents (1999) From the 1999 manuscript of Digital Libraries , by William Arms, (c) 2000 M.I.T. Press. [ Next Chapter | Contents | Index | Glossary ] Digital Libraries Contents Preface 1 Background 2 The Internet and the World Wide Web 3 Libraries and publishers 4 Innovation and research 5 People, organizations, and change 6 Economic and legal issues 7 Access management and security 8 User interfaces and usability 9 Text 10 Information retrieval and descriptive metadata 11 Distributed information discovery 12 Object models, identifiers, and structural metadata 13 Repositories and archives 14 Digital libraries and electronic publishing today Glossary [ Next Chapter | Contents | Index | Glossary ] [ Digital Libraries Home | About the Digital Libraries Web site ] Last revision of content: January 1999 Formatted for the Web: December 2002 (c) Copyright The MIT Press 2000
Internet History Sourcebooks Internet Ancient History Sourcebook The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook has expanded greatly since its creation, and now contains hundred of local files as well as links to source texts throughout the net. See Introduction for an explanation of the Sourcebook's goals. See the Help! The Ancient History Sourcebook works as follows: This Main Index page [this page] shows all sections and sub sections. Additional Study/Research Aids In addition to the above structure, there are a series of pages to help teacher and students. Ancient History in the Movies Subjects covered by the source texts in each Section. Studying Ancient History Introduction: Using Primary Sources Nature of Historiography Other Sources of Information on Ancient History General Guides to Net Texts [link to texts at other sites.] The Ancient Near East Mesopotamia Egypt Persia Israel Greek Civilizations Greece The Hellenistic World Introduction Paul Halsall, Compiler and Editor The date of inception was 4/8/1998. © Paul Halsall, 1999.
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