Culture

• Fashion

  http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/Brisas/sunda/ma/1adele.htm

  Site built by elementary students. Topics include types of clothing and tayloring in the Middle Ages. There are also a few artists renderings.

  http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/clothing.html

  This site lists styles of dress; possible colors of material, typs of clothing worn by different classes. The site also includes a fun quiz on what types of hats people of the times wore.

  http://members.aol.com:80/nebula5/tcpinfo2.html#history-med

  This site contains a list of other web sites that focus on medieval era cloting.

• Dance

  http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=117768&tocid=22104

  This site is an article from the Encyclopædia Britannica on the history of dance. Specifically this article deals with dance in the Middle Ages and Christianity's views of it.

  http://www.rendance.org/

  This site includes a list of links to sites about Renaissance Dance, including music and history.

  http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/dance.html

  This is the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) site about their recreations of Renaissance period dances.

• Music

  http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/emusic

  This site contains sound files of medieval era music including European carols and original compositions.

  http://www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us/antiqua/instrumt.html

  Want to know what was played for kings and the courts? This site contains a list of medieval era instruments each complete with pictures and sound files.

  http://ingeb.org/songs/saltus.html

  Listen to Hungarian medieval dance music.

• Ballads

  http://web.raex.com/~agincort/Agincourt1.html

  The Ballad of Agincourt by Michael Drayton.

  http://www.moonwise.com/ballads.html

  This site includes a number of ballads thought to be written between 1200 and 1700 in England and Scotland. It does not really offer any historical information, but does give good examples of ballads.

  http://www.skell.org/ballads.htm

  This site offers a brief history of medieval ballads and links to transcripts of ballads of the time.

• Recreation

  http://historymedren.about.com/library/weekly/aa053101a.htm

  This site discusses the daily lives of medieval teenagers.

  http://historymedren.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.r3.org%2Flife%2Farticles%2Ffalconry.html

  This site discusses falconry, a popular pastime, in the 1400's.

  http://historymedren.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Frenaissance.dm.net%2Fcompendium%2F5.html

  This site includes game-related terms of the time as well as lists of popular pastimes of medieval days.

  http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/4051/ighall.htm

  This site, created as a project by an elementary school class, has some basic information on medieval recreation and celebrations.

• Art

  http://www.leavesofgold.org/

  This site features the Philadelphia Museum of Art's collection of illuminated manuscripts. It offers a slide show of the collection along with a great deal of historical information to accompany the images of its pieces.

  http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/department.asp?dep=17

  This site is an introduction to Medieval art with pictures and historical information.

  http://www.manitoulin-link.com/medieval/medart.html

  This site has images of Medieval art, tapestries, icons, illuminations, jewelry and sculpture. While it only dates and places most of the pieces, the visuals provide excellent examples of the works of the time.

  http://historymedren.about.com/library/who/blwwartdex.htm

  This site indexes biographies of medieval artists and architects.

• Culinary Delights

  http://www.thousandeggs.com/glossary.html

  This site is a glossary of medieval culinary terms.

  http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Du_Fait_de_Cuisine/du_fait_de_c_contents.html

  This site is an online translation of a medieval French cookbook. It offers a sample menu, which can be better interpreted by use of the glossary website above. It also offers insight into the rhetoric and pagentry that surrounded the serving of medieval feasts.

  http://www.godecookery.com/chaucer/ccookery.htm

  This site explores and explains the use of food and cooking in Chaucer's works.

  http://www.godecookery.com/godeboke/godeboke.htm

  This site includes medieval recipes that have been adapted for modern kitchens. It also includes many facts about medieval cooking and food.

  http://historymedren.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.godecookery.com%2Fafeast%2Fafeast.htm

  This site features clipart relevant to medieval food and dining.

• Other Authors

  http://www.greatdante.net

  A website tribute to Dante Alighieri, includes background information about the times in which Dante lived, Dante's life, his writings and a glossary.

  http://www.iath.virginia.edu/dante

  This site about Dante Alighieri focuses mainly on his work The Divine Comedy: Inferno. There is a copy of the text, an artist rendering of the Inferno, and a cross-section of Dante's Hell.

  http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bio/244.html

  This site contains a multitude of biographical information on Dante Alighieri. Much of the information focuses on Dante as a "Spiritual Writer."