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Medieval Hodge Podge: http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/ Description: This site features easy to read text on daily life, religion, medicine, and politics in Europe. Links in the student friendly text take students to other collections of pictures and primary sources.
Medieval Architecture : an awesome site for 3-d examination of gothic architecture of towns, cathedrals and churches.
Gothic Art: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/gothic.html Description: Gothic Art is the style of art produced in Europe from the middle ages up to the beginning of the Renaissance. Typically religious in nature, it demonstrates the power of the Catholic Church as the central intellectual and aesthetic institution. Gothic art is especially known for the distinctive arched design of its churches, its stained glass, and its illuminated manuscripts.
Heraldry on the Internet http://www.heraldica.org/elsewhere.htm Description: Excellent examples of coats of arms with labels with links to resources on different types of heraldry.
Medieval Economy http://www1.enloe.wake.k12.nc.us/enloe/CandC/Showme/medieval.html Description: This graphically rich and easy-to-navigate site has student-friendly information about medieval European trade, commodities, professions, feudalism, and manorialism.
Introduction to the Middle Ages http://www.utah.edu/umfa/intropart2.html Description: This Utah Museum of Fine Arts offers this overview of medieval society. It describes chivalry, the life of knights, heraldry, the medieval economy, guilds, monasticism, monasteries and learning, the crusades, music and song, and medieval cookery.
Fifteenth Century Life http://www.r3.org/life/ Description: This site, sponsored by the Ohio Chapter of the Richard III Society, has interesting scholarly essays about dress, food and culture during the late Middle Ages.
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