Middle Ages - Vocabulary List

Middle Ages - Unit Outline

Lectures

Economics and Politics of the Middle Ages

From Manor to City

Assignments

Due Tuesday 9/21 - Graded Lecture: “Economics and Politics of the Middle Ages”

Due Thursday 9/23 - Qs for "The Villagers' Way of Life" reading

Due Monday 9/20 - Worksheet on “Economic Recovery Sparks Change”

Due Monday 9/27 - Homework worksheet on "Feudalism, Manorialism, and the Church" - from green home book

Due Monday 9/27 - Worksheet on Terry Jones' Medieval Lives - Episode: "The Damsel" [Note: May be available on Netflix watch-now]

Due Tuesday 9/28 - Read “The Crusades and the Wider World” (pp.255-260) and take structured reading notes.

Due Thursday 9/30 - 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

Due Friday 10/1 - Quick write: Had you been a Jew during one of the pogroms during the plague, what would you have done and felt?

Due Friday 10/1 - Unit Test.

Due Monday 10/4 - Create an illuminated text as extra credit.

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"

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