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J. Paul Getty Trust

J. Paul Getty Museum: Illuminated Manuscripts From Belgium and the Netherlands

For Students 9th - 10th
Highlights from an exhibition of painted manuscripts from the late Middle Ages. Find examples of a range of works from the time, along with audio files of commentaries from the exhibition's curators.
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University of Victoria (Canada)

Internet Shakespeare Editions: Art in Renaissance England

For Students 9th - 10th
Topics available from this page include Medieval art, Renaissance art, Raphael: Italy comes to England, Later Renaissance art, Art in northern Europe, and Art in England. All of these topics are discussed in light of Shakespeare's life...
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: The Canterbury Tales: Reading Chaucer Across Time

For Students 9th - 10th
Through a focus on digitized images of manuscripts and print editions of Chaucer's work, students will develop their understanding of how his poetry has been produced and read over the centuries.
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Other

Depicting Devotion: Illuminated Books of Hours

For Students 9th - 10th
A digital page-by-page walk through an illuminated Middle Age Book of Hours.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Literary Criticism

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers a detailed history of literary criticism from medieval time up to its current state.
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Other

Lords and Ladies: Life in the Middle Ages

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore what life was like during the medieval times. Among topics discover trends in clothing, food, and torture techniques of the age.
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Columbia University

Columbia University: Real Virtual: Representing Architectural Time and Space

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive collection of resources designed to aid the teaching of architectural history. An introduction to the period of architecture accompanies images. Viewers can manipulate the images to achieve a panoramic view or close-up of...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: The Middle Ages

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson focuses on the importance of record keeping, in journal or diary form, by people in the past. Students learn much about their lives from these documents and they study the Middle Ages as they create journal entries in the...
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Curated OER

Medieval and Renaissance Food: Sources, Recipes, and Articles

For Students 9th - 10th
A large collection of references for researching the types of food people ate in medieval and Renaissance times, and how they prepared it.
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Curated OER

Society for Creative Anachronism: Medieval and Renaissance Brewing

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of references for researching the brewing of ale in medieval and Renaissance times.
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Other

Ashmolean Museum: Medieval Europe Ceramic Collections

For Students 9th - 10th
Clicking on the time classifications of medieval Europe provides pictures of the types of mugs, jugs, pots, etc. that were used.
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Other

Sightseen Ltd.: Medieval Life and Times

For Students 9th - 10th
Investigate all aspects of life during the Middle Ages from topics such as clothing, music and kings.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Key Concepts: Development of New Trading Cities

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for a high school world history course. This section assesses students' knowledge of the development of medieval trading cities.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: World History: Unit: 600 1450 Regional & Interregional Interaction

For Students 9th - 10th
The World History unit is from Khan Academy. The years 600 to 1450 are included. The Byzantine Empire, European Middle Ages, origins of Islam, spread of Islam, Great Schism, Crusades, Mongols, Song China, Medieval Japan, Maya Empire,...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Key Concepts: Financial Institutions

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for a high school world history course. This section assesses students' knowledge of medieval financial institutions.
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Race and Slavery in the Middle East

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Modern History Sourcebook of Fordham University provides a thorough discussion of the existence of slavery in early times giving the types of people who were taken as slaves and the work they performed. There were also...
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Cathedral and the Riot of 1210

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, which is provided for by the Fordham University, details the turbulent times in Chartres history.
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Evolution of Crusader Privileges

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Fardham University gives information on The "Crusade". Many of the characteristics of the Crusade - the vow, taking the cross, etc. - evolved over time. This selection of texts shows the evolution of the religious legal...
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: The Decameron

For Students 9th - 10th
Fordham University provides a translation of "The Decameron". This is a widely read personal account written at the time of the plague.
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Exploring Ancient World Cultures

Exploring Ancient World Cultures: Literature and the Middle Time

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an essay from the University of Evansville discussing the evolution of the Middle Ages and the formation of various languages that would yield literature.
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Other

Washington College: What Ales You?

For Students 9th - 10th
A university student tests the belief held in medieval times that beer was healthier to drink than the available water, which was often polluted. He wanted to know whether the brewing process helped to purify the water. [Published: Dec....
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Middle Ages for Kids: Hundred Years War

For Students 1st - 9th
On this website, students learn about the Hundred Years War from the Middle Ages and Medieval times. Investigate these series of battles fought between the English and the French.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Middle Ages for Kids: Kievan Rus

For Students 9th - 10th
Kids learn about the Kievan Rus from the Middle Ages and Medieval times. Explore this Eastern European empire that was the start of the Russian culture.
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Eat, Drink, and Be Merry

For Students 9th - 10th
Manuscript artworks accompanied by descriptions that were part of a museum art exhibit on Medieval and Renaissance food. The exhibit looked at how food was portrayed in art from those times.

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