Central Middle Ages (ca. 1050-1320)


William of Tyre, History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea (late 12th century)

  • Modern Medieval History: Historiography
  • The Great Stirrup Controversy
  • How Could Christians Do This? (1993)
  • Crusades: Pilgrims in Arms [VOD]
  • Major Crusades to the East: Outremer
  • Beowulf (2000) translated by Seamus Heaney
  • The Norman Conquest: Old English to Middle English
  • Evolving Religion & Language: Christianity & English
  • "How the English Language Developed" (1927)
  • Source Analysis: Sic et Non (ca. 1122-1123), by Peter Abelard
  • Strange Landscape (1995): Abbot Suger & Gothic Cathedrals
  • A Bible in Glass & Stone, from Cathedral, Forge, & Waterwheel (1994)
  • Castle, Trebuchet, & Crossbow, from Cathedral, Forge, & Waterwheel (1994)
  • Medieval Heresy
  • The Cathars (2000): Heretics
  • Under Crescent & Cross (1994): Jews
  • Anatomy of a Surname
  • Dante's Inferno Cantos I & XXVIII [Italian & English]

  • Selected Web Resources