Website+Resources


 * Websites **

** [|Feudalism and Medieval Life] **
This is a comprehensive website with links to a large variety of sites with information on **Medieval life**, Law, History, **Knights**, **Crusades**, **Castles**, **Music**, **Art**, **Food**, **Clothing**, Language, **Medicine**, the **Black Plague**, Famous People, **Heraldry**, **Weapons** and **Maps** & **Timelines**. Click on the links in the main menu to be taken to a list of sites on that topic. Remember to take note of the URL of the actual site you use and not the homepage for your bibliography.

** [|History on the Net] **
This site has an easy-to-use menu with links to information on:
 * Towns **, **Feudal system**, **Medieval Manor**, **The Farming Year**, **Types of Castles**, **Attacking and Defending a Castle**, **Clothing**, **Food**, **Houses**, **Crime and Punishment**.

[|Medieval Life Plus]
This is an excellent site with different pages of information on: **Castles** and Fortifications; Architecture (including **Cathedrals**); Religion, **Monks** and **Monasteries;** **Legends** and **Myths;** **Medicine;** Wars and **Weaponry;** **Food**, Drink and Cooking; Work; **Farming** and Industry; **Health;** Life of **Nobles** and **Peasants;** **Clothing** and Costumes.

=[|Life During the Middle Ages]= This is another site with different pages covering a wide range of topics. These are: Daily life, **Education**, **Clothing**, **Bathing**, **Games**, **Music**, Commerce, **Festivals**, Village Life, City Life, Famines, **Food**, **Health**, **Literature**, **Chivalry** and Romance. However, there are no illustrations on this site.

** [|Castles of Britain] **
Everything that you want to know about **building**, **defending** and **living** in a **castle**. This includes information on **sieges** and **medieval weaponry**. This site has lots of information but only few illustrations and diagrams. Go to the search further page and use the search engines to find suitable illustrations.

=[|Castle Defences]= This is an easy-to-read site with information and photos of **castle** **defences**.

=[|Facts About Castles]= This is another easy-to-read site with information about **why castles were built**, **how castles were built**, where they were built and **types of castles**,

=[|Life in the Middle Ages megasite]= As the name implies, this is a large collection of sites on many different topics and subjects of medieval life. **Medieval times**, the **Black Plague**, **Castles**, the **Crusades**, **Islam/Muslims**, the **Inquisition**, **Knights**, **Monasteries, Orders and Cathedrals, Vikings**. Under these headings there are special sites for the popular subjects as well as The Lives of **Medieval Women**, **Medieval Technology**, **Medieval Jobs**.

The Middle Ages for Kids (Another megasite)
This is a comprehensive site. It has a history and map section at the top and then an alphabetical list of medieval topics.

** [|History Interactive: The Middle Ages] **
Here you will find information on **Feudal Life**, **Religion**, **Home**, **Clothing**, **Health**, **Arts and Entertainment** as well as **Town Life**. Each page has a helpful introduction but be sure to select the “Read More” link at the bottom for much more useful information.

=[|Vikings]= This is a collection of sites with information on history, culture and daily life of the **Vikings**. =[|BBC Vikings 1]= This BBC site is for upper Primary students. It has games and interactive activities as well as information on **Family Life**, **Vikings at Sea**, **Vikings at Home**, Beliefs and Stories (**Religion and Myths**), **Viking Towns**. =[|BBC Vikings 2]= This BBC site is for older students and adults. It contains an overview, a section on Raiders and Settlers (**Viking Quest**, **Viking Ships**, **Weapons and Warfare**), another on Viking Culture (**Religion**, **Money**, **Women** and **Food**) and another explaining the **evidence** about the Vikings.

=[|The Viking Gods]= Information on Ases, **Asgard**, **Valhal**, **Odin** and **Thor**.

=[|Norse mythology for Smart People]= (**Norse** tales and **myths**: information, explanation and examples)

=[|Medieval Medicine 1]= This site has easy-to-read information about health, disease and **medicine** in medieval times and a list of illnesses and treatments, including the **Black Plague**.

=[|Medieval Medicine 2]= This site traces the **diseases** that medieval people might have at different stages of their lives. It explains the role of doctors as well as nuns and monks in caring for people. It has a link to a site about **medicine** in the **Islamic** world, which was more advanced.

=[|Medieval Music 1]= This is an easy-to-read introduction to different types of **music** common in the medieval period. It explains **church** music, **Gregorian chant**, secular songs, **troubadors** and **minstrels**.

=[|Medieval Music 2]=

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This site has detailed information about medieval **music**. There are no sound examples or pictures but the information is comprehensive. Use the links at the bottom of the first page to investigate **vocal**, **instrumental** and **composers**. Click here for more information and illustrations of medieval[| instruments].

[|Medieval Music 3]
This is the music page from the Lords and Ladies site above. It covers musical styles, **musical instruments**, **troubadors** and **minstrels**.

=[|The Black Death]= This site has detailed information about the courses, spread, cures and consequences of the bubonic **plague** or **black death.**

=[|The Black Death 2]= This is a page summarising information about the **Black Death**.

=[|The Crusades]= This site explains the **reasons** for the **Crusade** from the point of view of the European Christian crusaders. It covers the first crusade in some detail and has links to information about the later crusades and other viewpoints about the crusades. It summarises the effects of the crusades.

= [|Knights and Armour] = This site has pages on **History of Knights**, **Armour**, **Weapons**, **Life of a Knight**, **Crusades**, **Chivalry** and **Heraldry**.

= Code of Chivalry = This site introduces the **code o****f chivalr**y and the **virtues of chivalry**.

= [|Medieval Weapons] = This site explains the basic hand **weapons** used in **close-quarter** fighting.

=[|Medieval Weapons 2]= This site has a wider range of **weapons,** including **bows**, **artillery** and **siege weapons.** The information is more detailed.

=[|Components of Medieval Armour]= This is a useful site with the names, images and information about lots of different pieces of **armour**.

=[|Armour and Weapons]= Click on the home page links for **Parts** of a Suit of **Armour** and **Parts** of a **Sword.**

=[|Siege Weapons]= Easy-to-read information on **siege engines**: **ballistas**, **catapults,** **trebuchets** and the missiles they fired.

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