Middle Ages

The web sites listed below are in no particular order and are a starting place for finding information on the WWW.  Truly, there is gobs of information on the Middle Ages on the WWW, but much of it is quite dense.  I may be adding more links as your project progresses.  And let me know, if you find any good links too. 
As of 01/04/06.

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Brief History and Overview-Encyclopedias

• If you are in school, try World Book Online

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Subject Specific Sites

• Castle Learning Center
  http://www.castles-of-britain.com/castle6.htm
  

• Annenberg Exhibit - Middle Ages
  http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/
   

• Medieval Art and Architecture
  http://www.pitt.edu/~medart/
  

• Medieval Medicine
  http://www.intermaggie.com/med/index.php
  

• Medieval Technology
  http://scholar.chem.nyu.edu/tekpages/Technology.html
   

• Science and Technology in the Year 1000
  http://www.lindahall.org/events_exhib/exhibit/exhibits/y1k/index/index.shtml
   

• Teenagers at War in the Middle Ages
  http://www.deremilitari.org/RESOURCES/ARTICLES/devries2.htm
  

• Magna Carta
  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/medieval/magframe.htm
  

• Medieval Cooking
  http://www.godecookery.com/godeboke/godeboke.htm 
  

• Footwear of the Middle Ages (Check out sections 9 & 10, Shoe Designs & Appendices) 
  http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/SHOEHOME.HTM
   

• Eleanor of Aquitaine
  http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/heroine2.html
  

• Women and the Crusades
  http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/heroine3.html
  

• Crusades-United Methodist Church
  http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/bible/ma.html
  

• Medieval Manuscripts
  http://www2.art.utah.edu/Paging_Through/index.html
  

• The Cloisters - Metropolitan Museum's branch devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. (Under the photo, click on "Collection  Highlights").
  http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/department.asp?dep=7
  

• Cathedral Tours
  http://www.newyorkcarver.com/cathedrallinks.htm
   

• Tales of the Middle Ages
  http://www.godecookery.com/mtales/mtales.htm
  

• Why was armor made?
  http://www.civilisations.ca/milhist/austria/aus07eng.html
  

• Tournament and Ceremonial Armor
  http://www.civilisations.ca/milhist/austria/aus08eng.html
   

• Viking Ships
  http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/viking_ships.php
   

• International Museum of the Horse
  http://www.imh.org/imh/kyhpl2a.html#xtocid165601
  

• Knighthood, Chivalry And Tournaments (Be careful here.  Make sure you are reading factual articles and not advertisements for products this site sells.  Take time to sort fact from opinion.  But there is some good info here).
  http://www.chronique.com/
  

• Bayeux Tapestry
  http://www.ealdormere.sca.org/university/bayeux.shtml
  

• Tower of London History
  http://www.hrp.org.uk/index2.htm

• NOVA - Secrets of Lost Empires - Medieval Siege
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/trebuchet/
   

• Mostly Medieval - Exploring the Middle Ages
  (Ballads, Beasties, Book of Days, Heraldry, God & War, Medicine, Merkat Cross- ancient Brit town)
  http://www.skell.org/explore/index.htm
   

• King Arthur
  http://www-personal.umich.edu/~merrie/Arthur/
   

• Medieval Names Archive-Choose a Medieval Name
  http://www.panix.com/~mittle/names/