Library of Congress
Loc: A Video Selection of Illuminated Manuscripts
A video selection of various medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, including bibles and books of hours.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: A Count and His Wife
A count and his wife granting a charter to a city.-Myers, 1905
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Arming a Knight
At the age of twenty-one the squire became a knight, being then introduced to the order of knighthood by a peculiar and impressive service.-Myers, 1905
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Battle of Hastings
The Battle of Hastings, as depicted on the Bayeux tapestry.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Carnarvon Castle
This fortress was founded by Edward I in 1283. It is one of the most impressive of the decayed medieval strongholds of the British Isles.-Myers, 1905
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Castle Courtyard
A castle courtyard.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Degradation of a Knight
A ritual where a knight is stripped of his position due to discipline.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Domesday Book
There are two large volumes of the survey, one being a folio of 760 pages and the other a large octavo of 900 pages. The strong box shown in the cut is the chest in which the volumes were formerly kept.-Myers, 1905
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Drawbridge
The drawbridge of a castle.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Grinding With a Handmill
Grinding with a hand-mill in the fourteenth century, as pictured in an old manuscript.-Gordy, 1912
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Holy Grail
An illustration of angles and a knight surrounding the holy grail.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Huns Invading Europe
The Huns sweeping everything before them as they invade Europe.-Gordy, 1912
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Investiture
Investiture of a bishop by a king through the giving of the crosier, or pastoral staff.-Myers, 1905
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Medieval Castle
Medieval Castle of the Holy Roman Empire. "1 Moat, 2 Drawbridge, 3 Wicket, 4 Merlons, 5 Embrasures, 6 Rampart, 7 Portcullis, 8 Donjon or Keep, 9 Turret, 10 Escutcheon." -Foster, 1921
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Medieval Town
Medieval town of the Holy Roman Empire in 1491.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Monk Copyist
The monks also became copyists, and with great painstaking and industry gathered and multiplied ancient manuscripts, and thus preserved and transmitted to the modern world much classical learning and literature that would otherwise have...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pope Urban Ii
Pope Urban II presiding over the council of Clermont in 1095 and calling the Christian people to the first crusade for the deliverance of the Holy Land, after an engraving of the sixteenth century.-Gordy, 1912
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Reaping
Reaping in the fourteenth century, as pictured in an old psalter.-Gordy, 1912
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Etc: Clip Art Etc: Reception of Crusaders by the King of Hungary
Reception of Crusaders by the King of Hungary.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Tapestry
A group in the manor house, during feudalist Europe.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: The Amphitheater at Arles
The amphitheater was made a fortress, packed with houses, in the eighth century, on account of Saracen incursions.-Myers, 1905
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: The Antipodes in Derision
Cosmas lived in the sixth Christian century. In the cut here reproduced from his Topography, he ridicules the idea of a round earth with people on the under side whose heads hand downwards. The views of Cosmas as to the existence of an...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: The Ceremony of Homage
A fief was conferred by a very solemn and peculiar ceremony called homage. The person about to become a vassal, kneeling with uncovered head, placed his hands in those of his future lord and solemnly vowed to be henceforth his man and to...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: The Murder of Thomas Becket
The Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170.