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BOOKS ABOUT THE MIDDLE AGES

Daily Life in the Middle Ages
Daily Life
in the
Middle Ages


How Would You Survive in the Middle Ages?
How Would You Survive in the
Middle Ages?


Making of the Middle Ages
Making
of the
Middle Ages


Art of the Middle Ages
Art of the
Middle Ages


European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages
European Literature & the Latin Middle Ages


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Cathedral World Game
Cathedral World Game


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Medieval Celebrations




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The Middle Ages Educational History Posters
for the classroom and home schoolers, theme decor.


history > THE MIDDLE AGES < social studies


The “Middle Ages” educational history poster series feature events and concepts of European history: the Black Death; the Church; Crafts and Guilds; the Crusades; Feudalism; Knights; Literature, Arts and Architecture.

The Middle Ages, also referred to as the Medieval period, describe an approximately 1000 year (+or-) time span in Europe, marked as dissolution of the Roman Empire's centralized power to decentralized feudal system. The term “Dark Ages”, a term coined by early Renaissance historians, is no longer an apt description of the period as research continues to reveal a complex paradigm characterized by a cultural “introversion” as opposed to a “extroverted” expansion.

The Middle Ages begin as a period of mass migration known as the Barbarian Invasions and the new order of Western and Eastern Roman Empires, c. 400-476 AD, and ends in the period of the Protestant Reformation, c. 1453-1517 AD.



The Middle Ages- The Black Death Wall Poster
The Middle Ages-
The Black Death
Wall Poster

The Middle Ages-
The Black Death

The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350. It is widely thought to have been an outbreak of bubonic plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, carried by fleas associated with the black rat and other rodents.

It is thought to have started in China and was transported along the Silk Road, reaching the Crimea (western Asia) by 1346. From there it spread throughout the Mediterranean and Europe. Historians estimate that the world's population was reduced from an estimated 450 million to between 350 and 375 million by 1400.

The Black Death somewhat contributed to the destruction of the feudal system in the Middle Ages, and many of the upper classes were forced to give higher wages and more freedom to their workers willing to work on the nobles' lands because of the high death toll. The Black Death also killed many great kings and nobles, leaving issues with inheritance of land and money left to their families. In its aftermath, the Black Death may also have favoured the use of more advanced farming tools as a smaller workforce was available and plots grew larger as a result of the population loss.

~ source Wikipedia

diseases & disorders posters
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The Middle Ages- The Church Wall Poster
The Middle Ages-
The Church
Wall Poster

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The Middle Ages-
The Church

Christianity posters
Vatican posters



The Middle Ages- Crafts & Guilds
Wall Poster

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The Middle Ages-
Crafts and Guilds

Images of Labor poster series
Careers and Jobs posters


The Middle Ages, The Crusades
The Middle Ages,
The Crusades

The Middle Ages-
The Crusades

Frankish knight Godfrey of Bouillon (c. 1060 – 18 July 1100) was one of the leaders of the First Crusade from 1096 until his death in Jerusalem after a prolonged illness.


The Middle Ages- Feudalism Wall Poster
The Middle Ages-
Feudalism
Wall Poster

The Middle Ages-
Feudalism


The Middle Ages- Knights Wall Poster
The Middle Ages-
Knights
Wall Poster

The Middle Ages-
Knights


The Middle Ages-
Literature, Arts & Architecture

Literature Index
Medieval Literature posters
Arts posters
Architecture posters


Aucassin and Nicolette on a Horse, from the Early 13th Century Chantefable "Aucassin Et Nicolette", Giclee Print
Aucassin and Nicolette on a Horse, from the Early 13th Century Chantefable "Aucassin Et Nicolette",
Giclee Print

The chantefable (combination of prose and verse) of the lovers “Aucassin Et Nicolette” is an entertaining romance sung by troubadours.

Troubadours were composers and performers of lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages, 1100-1350.

Nicolette can be seen as a “proto-feminist” - she actively searched for her beloved Aucassin while he only bemoans not being able to find her.


King Arthur and Guinevere watching a tournament, c.1316, Fine Art Print
King Arthur
and Guinevere watching a tournament, c.1316,
Fine Art Print

King Arthur and Guinevere

Legendary King Arthur is a fictional British figure who may have been inspired by an historical figure.

Medieval Arthurian legends were popularized by Geoffrey of Monmouth (1100-1155) through Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur (1485). Modern Arthur theme are seen in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, T.H. White's The Once and Future King and Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal.


Book of Kells - Illumination of the Chi Rho Page, Poster
Book of Kells - Illumination of the Chi Rho Page, Poster

Book of Kells is an illuminated manuscript of the four Gospels of the New Testament, based mostly from Jerome's Vulgate. It was transcribed in Latin by Celtic monks c. 800 AD and is considered to be Ireland's finest national treasure.

alphabet posters


Alchemists at Work, from a Manuscript of Alchemy, Giclee Print
Alchemists at Work, from a Manuscript
of Alchemy,
Giclee Print

Alchemy, the precursor of modern chemisty, was systemic experimentation and observation in the quest to transform lead into gold.

Carl Jung intrepreted the Alchemist's work symbolically as the transformation of humanity into God.


Rose and lancet windows from the south wall, c.1224 (stained glass) Fine Art Print
Stained Glass
Chartes Cathedral,
Fine Art Print

Stained glass ‘rose and lancet’ windows from the south wall, Chartres Cathedral, c.1224.

mandala posters
France posters


Mathematician Monks: One Teaching the Globe, the Other Copying a Manuscript, Giclee Print
Mathematician Monks: One Teaching the
Globe, the Other
Copying a Manuscript,
Giclee Print

A monk is a person who leads a “monastic life” in a “monastery” with like-minded people, apart from those not sharing the same purpose. In the Middle Ages the monasteries were centers of learning.

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Halley's Comet and Harold Receiving Bad News, detail from the Bayeux Tapestry, Giclee Print
Halley's Comet and
Harold Receiving Bad News, detail from the Bayeux Tapestry,
Giclee Print

Halley's Comet and Harold Receiving Bad News, detail from the Bayeux Tapestry

comets posters


Detail from The Lady with the Unicorn: Sight Tapestry, Giclee Print
Detail from The Lady
with the Unicorn:
Sight Tapestry,
Giclee Print

The Lady with the Unicorn: Sight Tapestry

horses posters


Medieval England Map, 1979, Poster
Medieval England Map,
1979, Poster

Castles ~ The age they sprang from faded long ago, the imposing castles and soaring cathedrals that grace the landscape keep England's medieval heritage vividly alive. They stand as monuments of the tumultuous Middle Ages, a millennium that saw a united England emerge from a caldron of diverse peoples set to boiling when the last Roman rulers left in about A. D. 400. England then lay open to invaders - first the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, who established kingdoms. Later from the north thundered fleets of fierce Danish and Norwegian Vikings, who pillaged England from the ninth to the eleventh centuries - a time when the Northmen dominated the seas from Russia to North America. Their ferocious hit-and-run attacks escalated into the Danish wars of 865-896, during which Alfred the Great successfully defended his kingdom of Wessex - the only English domain then eluding the Scandinavians. But a century later another sustained assault by the Vikings ended with conquest, and England was finally united under the Danish King Canute. The Viking influence survives today in many of England's place-names, and in occasional words still spoken in the north.

The last major invasion came in 1066 from neighboring France. The Normans brought a new, French-speacking nobility; they set about building larger fortresses to stave off rebellion and outside attack. To those castles even the initially restive native English eventually looked for protection.

For solace in a world marked by hardship, the closeness of death, and the fear of hell, people looked to religion. Churches became centers of social life as well as places of worship. Prayer and learning thrived, first in the monasteries, later in the universities. At oxford and Cambridge, both established by the early 13th century, were sown the seed of law, theology, science, art, and philosophy that today influence man's view of himself and his world.

The Social Ladders ~
“Men who pray, men who fight, and men who work.” The ingredients for a well-run kingdom according to King Alfred, who reigned from 871 to 899, reflect a view of the world as a divinely inspired hierarchy. His age believed that God designed two parallel social ladders. At the top of one the pope stood over the clergy. On the secular side stood the king, the nobility, and peasantry. Though each had his prescribed niche, the system permitted mobility.

“Men Who Fight” ~
From the idea of courtly love, embodied in the nobility, spring notions of the age of chivalry: the dashing knight, pur in purpose, brave in war, ardent in romance, steadfast in allegiance. Foremost, however, were the nobleman's roles of administrator and soldier. From his manor he managed landholdings that nourished the domain. For the king he would lead his own men into battle to protect the realm. In return the noble shared in the kingdom's land and wealth and savored the court's pomp and pleasures.

“Men Who Work” ~
England was a land of villages, and the village was center of the peasant's world. To the village he returned after tending the field. Close by lived the lord, who under the feudal system claimed the peasant's service and a share of his production. In the village church the peasant prayed for an easier existence in the hearafte. But an enterprising peasant could prosper on the earth by working land left with no one to tend it, especially after the plagues that decimated England's populace.

“Men Who Pray” ~
God's shepherds were separate from, yet commingled with, the laity. Parish priest, friar, monk, abbot, and bishop all follwed the pope. But though they were pastors to their flocks, clergymen were often social leaders too. And the higher echelons enjoyed privilege: immunity from any but the church's laws, the comforts of estate ownership, the right to sit in Parliament, and the standing to frequent the courts, where they rubbed shoulders with their secular counterparts.


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