This page has various websites that may be useful in research about castles and the Middle Ages.

 

Medieval Re-creation

The Association for Renaissance Martial Arts <http://www.thearma.org/>:  includes resources such as historical manuals and pictures about medieval fighting.

The Society for Creative Anachronism <http://www.sca.org/>.


Castles

Castles Abbeys and Medieval buildings photographed my Michael Cook:  http://www.castles-abbeys.co.uk/?CFID=4137851&CFTOKEN=63710384.

Castles of Britain <http://www.castles-of-britain.com/index.htm>:  a site "dedicated to the study and promotion of British castles" with links to numerous essays, trivia, photos. 

A guide in pictures to medieval castles in England, Wales and Ireland <http://www.pictures-of-castles.co.uk/>  Picture of about two dozen castles, even at various  times of the year. 

Castles of Tuscany <http://www.castellitoscani.com/castles_index.htm>:  alphabetical list with links to pages of description and pictures of 177 castles and 15 other sites.

Castles on the Web <http://www.castlesontheweb.com/index.html> dozens of links with brief description of content to various castles and medieval life. 

Castles of the World <http://www.castles.org/index.htm>.  Links to castles with comments from visitors. 

Italian castles (in Italian)  http://www.mondimedievali.net/castelli/index.htm

Guide to Castles of Europe <http://www.guide-to-castles-of-europe.com/index.html>. Organized by country, with info on many castles. 


Bayeaux Tapestry

http://headlesschicken.ca/eng204/texts/BayeuxTapestry/

http://www.angelfire.com/mb2/battle_hastings_1066/bayeux_tapestry/index.html


Froissart

The Online Froissart: https://www.dhi.ac.uk/onlinefroissart/

Most or all of the Chronicles. [Here and here, also in Volumes 1 and 2 and in French.]

Tales from Froissart: http://faculty.nipissingu.ca/muhlberger/FROISSART/TALES.HTM

Some illuminations of Froissart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froissart_of_Louis_of_Gruuthuse_(BnF_Fr_2643-6)

some illustrations of tents from Froissart : http://home.adelphi.edu/~sbloch/sca/tents/pictures/froissart/

Master of Getty Froissart: http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=21261


Chivalric Images

Medieval French Illuminations of War, Enluminaires <http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/documentation/enlumine/fr/visites_00.htm>:  click on "La guerre" for warfare; other links have interesting pictures of medieval life and people. 

Manesse Manuscript <http://diglit.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg848>  Gorgous illuminations of Minnsaenger/German Minstrel knights of the 12th and 13th Century.

Konstance-weingarner liederhandschrift:  <http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/purl/bsz319421317>

<http://libwww.library.phila.gov/medievalman/tour.cfm>  Some illustrated manuscripts of medieval life.

Digital Scriptorium <http://www.scriptorium.columbia.edu/> collects images of medieval manuscripts from a number of American libraries.

Heraldry

<http://www.heraldica.org/>


Printed Sources

De Re Militari's primary sources :  <http://deremilitari.org/primary-sources/>

Internet Medieval History Sourcebook:  on the crusades <http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/sbook1k.asp>

The Camelot Project <http://d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot-project>

Froissart, Chronicles <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101013592199>.

Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain <http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/geoffrey_thompson.pdf>.

Jack Cade, Proclamation of Grievances <http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1450jackcade.asp>.  Primary Source.

Eurodocs <http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page>


Websites, short essays, and blogs

 

Castles on the Web <http://www.castlesontheweb.com/index.htmll>

Women and the Crusades <http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/heroine3.html>

A Commonplace book <http://willscommonplacebook.blogspot.com/> regular entries on medieval warfare

Knighthood orders <http://www.heraldica.org/topics/orders/>

http://www.medievalwarfare.info/

Dress, Jewels, Arms and Coat of Arms: Material Culture and Self-Representation in the Late Middle Ages <http://web.ceu.hu/medstud/manual/SRM/>

Chivalry toolbox: <http://www.cod.edu/people/faculty/staeck/Chivalry%20Toolbox.htm>

course on medieval warfare check links:  http://medieval.ucdavis.edu/130/

medieval news:  <http://medievalnews.blogspot.com/>

medieval itineraries <http://pilgrim.peterrobins.co.uk/itineraries/>

Medieval English Towns <http://www.trytel.com/~tristan/towns/towns.html#menu>.  Diverse information on some specific towns and urban life in general.

Wars of the Roses <http://www.warsoftheroses.com/index.htm>.

Warwick Castle <http://www.warwick-castle.com/explore-castle/map-and-overview.aspx>.  Tourist destination.



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