Middle Ages - Vocabulary List

Middle Ages - Unit Outline

Lectures

Economics and Politics of the Middle Ages

From Manor to City

Assignments

Due Friday 9/11 - 1 page: Who are you?

Due Monday 9/14 - Qs for "The Villagers' Way of Life" reading

Due Monday 9/14 - Graded Lecture: “Economics and Politics of the Middle Ages”

Due Tuesday or Wednesday 9/15 or 9/16 - Feudal Europe Map

Due Wednesday or Thursday 9/16 or 9/17 - Worksheet on Terry Jones' Medieval Lives - Episode: "The Damsel" [Note: Available on Netflix watch-now]

Due Wednesday or Thursday 9/16 or 9/17 - Homework worksheet on "The Plague" section from the Green Book.

Due Friday 9/18 - Quick write: Had you been a Jew during one of the pogroms during the plague, what would you have done and felt?

Due Monday 9/21 - Homework worksheet on "Feudalism, Manorialism, and the Church"

Due Monday 9/21 - Create an illuminated text as extra credit.

Due Monday 9/21 - Unit Test.

Due Tuesday or Wednesday 10/6 or 10/7 - Extra Credit - Buy one of the following grammar books:
1. The Bedford Handbook by Diana Hacker
2. A Pocket Style Manual (Spiral-bound) by Diana Hacker

Readings, Film, and Video

Early account of the plague by Michael Platiensi - 1357

Jewish History Sourcebook on the Plague

Terry Jones' Medieval Lives - Episode: "The Damsel"

Bloody Sunday - 2002

Unit Links (not required)

THE MIDDLE AGES, CHIVALRY, & KNIGHTHOOD

Life in the Middle Ages and Illuminated Texts and Bodleian Library Illuminated Text Examples

Art of the Middle Ages

Internet Medieval Sourcebook

The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies

Timeref.com - Medieval timelines

Netserf - Internet resource collection - really good links site.

The Early Middle Ages

The High Middle Ages

A Limited Carolingian Renaissance - Charlemagne and Otto I