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Medieval Technology Page - http://scholar.chem.nyu.edu/tekpages/Technology.html
A very interesting look at medieval technology; how it was created, how it worked, and how it was used. |
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Middle Ages - http://www.learner.org/interactives/middleages/
Knights in shining armor, lavish banquets, wandering minstrels, kings, queens, bishops, monks, pilgrims, and glorious pageantry, but it was harsh, uncertain, and often dangerous. |
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GodeCookery.Com - http://www.godecookery.com/godeboke/godeboke.htm
A selection of recipes and cookery books and related information, mainly from the late Middle Ages. |
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Life in a Medieval Castle - http://www.castlewales.com/life.html
Brief account of daily life in a Medieval Castle. Touches on such aspects as religion, hygiene and water. |
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Medieval Pottery Research Group - http://www.medievalpottery.org.uk
For those with an interest in pottery vessels made, traded, and used in Europe between the end of the Roman period and the 16th century. |
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Life in the Middle Ages - http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/Brisas/sunda/ma/mahome.htm
Series of short essays by gifted resource students from Kyerene de las Brisas Elementary School. Many of the essays are illustrated by the children, and contain short summaries of aspects of everyday life in the Middle Ages. |
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Medica: The Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages - http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/medica/
Society interested in medicine in medieval times. Includes an extensive bibliography, related links and an events list. Hosted by the University of Maine. |
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Medieval Life - http://www.camelotintl.com/village/street.html
A look at different peoples roles. |
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Viking Answer Lady Webpage - Daily Life In Viking Age Scandinavia Page - http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/VALDailyLife.htm
Contains detailed information about such aspects of Viking daily life as clothing, food, naming practices and sexual politics. Contains some analysis of primary sources to provide this information. |
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Middle Ages - http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/middleages/
Museum site with an e-tour of facets of Medieval life relating to Knights, Merchants, the Church and Peasants. |
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Medieval Life - http://www.medieval-life.net
Everyday life during medieval times. A description of the history, literature, chivalry, commerce, customs, food and life of people living in Europe, Asia and Africa during the Middle Ages. |
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Tales of the Middle Ages: Food and Drink - http://www.godecookery.com/mtales/mtales14.htm
A look at what was cooked and how. |
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Viking Age Foodstuffs - http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/vikfood.html
Archaeological Finds of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Viking Foodstuffs |
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Historical Recipes of Different Cultures - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjw/recipes/ethnic/historical/index.html
This site has sections on both Anglo-Saxon and general Medieval recipes. It lists the recipes themselves with some detail on customs and ritual associated with the meals. |
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Medieval Women An Interactive Exploration - http://mw.mcmaster.ca/home.html
An interactive website featuring aspects of medieval women's daily lives, such as life in a religious order, or life for members of different classes of society. |
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Richard III Society-15th Century Life: Food - http://www.r3.org/life/articles/food1.html
An overview of medieval culinary traditions for both lower and upper classes. |
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Viking Men's Clothing - http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/mensgarb.html
While this site is intended for individuals interested in reconstructing historical costume, many details of Viking men's costume are analysed. These include materials used, general types of clothing and ornamentation. |
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Marriage During the Middle Ages - http://www.medieval-weddings.net/
Information on traditions, laws, customs, ceremonies, weddings, feasts, clothing, jewelry, beauty treatment, gifts, dresses, showers, courtly love, and knights and chivalry. |
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What the Irish Wore - http://www.reconstructinghistory.com/irish/moy.html
An article on the Moy gown, an Irish Medieval gown that includes the discovery, description, and reconstruction. |
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Markets and Fairs in Britain and Ireland before 1216 - http://www.dur.ac.uk/r.h.britnell/articles/Earlymarkets.htm
A comparative study on the growth of trade in Britain and Ireland before 1216. |
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Medieval Clothing - http://www.octavia.net/9thclife/Clothing.htm
Medieval costume. Men's clothing, women's clothing, children's clothing, sanitary napkins, diapers, wool, linen, silk, leather, fur |
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Medieval Mustard - http://www.greydragon.org/library/mustard.html
Medieval recipes and uses for mustard are included in this page, drawing heavily on primary sources. |
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The 'Law Merchant' and the Fair Court of St. Ives, 1270-1324 - http://www.stevesachs.com/papers/paper_thesis.html
A detailed analysis of the "law merchant" and commercial law in the Middle Ages, focusing on the court records of a medieval English fair. |
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Do Exempla Illustrate Daily Life? - http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/e-center/johnston.html
A critical discussion on the merits and pitfalls of using medieval 'exempla' to determine facts about daily life in the middle ages. |
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The Meadery - http://mysite.verizon.net/mshapiro_42/
Marc Shapiro looks into that most ancient of fermented beverages, mead, with information on wine, beer and cider as well. Short histories of each beverage are included, as well as information on the brewing methods used. |
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Rural and Urban Elites in England During the Later Middle Ages - http://www.dur.ac.uk/r.h.britnell/articles/Elites.htm
Article on rural and urban elites, the interaction between them, and a bibliography. |
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Medieval Diet - http://www.medievaldiet.com
Medieval diet recipes, low in fat and calories. |
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The Peasants: Advances in Agricultural Technology, 800-1000 - http://www.vlib.us/medieval/lectures/peasants.html
A lecture on medieval agricultural technology and its relationship with the daily lives of peasants by Lynn Harry Nelson, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. |
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The Marketing of Grain in England, 1250-1350 - http://www.dur.ac.uk/r.h.britnell/articles/Grainframe.htm
Aspects of grain marketing in Medieval England such as pricing, famines and transportation issues. This includes discussions on how these issues impacted on the lives of all classes of people in this time period. |
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The Medieval Paupers - http://www.vlib.us/medieval/lectures/paupers.html
The Medieval Paupers, a lecture by Lynn Harry Nelson, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. Nelson examines Medieval paupers by categorising them into three groups, physically incompetent, socially marginalised and economically deprived and examines factors contributing to this state, as well as outcomes of this state. |
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Daily Life--Peasants - http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/middleages/pdailylife.html
An overview of the daily lives of Medieval Peasants including aspects such as clothing, food, marriage and children. |
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The Great Famine and the Black Death - http://www.vlib.us/medieval/lectures/black_death.html
Lectures on the famine of 1315-1317 and the Black Death, by Lynn Harry Nelson, The University of Kansas. |
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The Sundering of Society 1350-1500 - http://www.vlib.us/medieval/lectures/sundering_society.html
A lectures in medieval history, by Lynn Harry Nelson, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. Nelson examines the divisions in society and how the lives of individuals in the difference classes were effected. |
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A New Theory on the Costumes of the Oseberg Queen and Her Attendant - http://www.forest.gen.nz/Medieval/articles/Oseberg/dress/OSEBERG.HTM
A translation of a part of the chapter in a book based on a ship-burial of a wealthy (perhaps royal) woman from the Vestfold |
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The Flour of Chivalry - http://www.whirlwind-design.com/madbaker/bakerguild.html
A short history of medieval bakers' guilds, focusing on pricing, aspects of membership and issues with local authorities and the growth of urbanisation. |
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The Feudal Society of the Middle Ages - http://www.camelotintl.com/village/society.html
Brief explanation of major roles in the feudal hierarchy. |
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Food in Medieval Jewish Spain - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/8636/Food.html
An overview of foods that were eaten by Jewish people in medieval Spain. Includes links to resources and analysis of some primary and secondary sources. |
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Instruments of Torture, Medieval Times - http://www.awesomestories.com/history/torture/torture_ch1.htm
Provides an overview of instruments of torture, including illustrations and descriptions of how they were used. |
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Medieval Muses - http://www.moonsmuses.com/Medieval.html
Information on herbs, recipes and traditions. |
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Meals & Manners - http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/lifemann/manners/
The page is part of Harvard's Geoffrey Chaucer page, and it contains information on what food was eaten and the manner in which it was consumed, with links expanding the text. |
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Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe - http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/osheim/intro.html
This project involves the creation of a hypertext archive of narratives, medical consilia, governmental records, religious and spiritual writings and images documenting the arrival, impact and response to the problem of epidemic disease in Western Europe between 1348 and 1530. |
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Business in the Urban Home - http://www.dur.ac.uk/r.h.britnell/Colchester_trade.htm
This article relates to the trade in commodities from people's homes in the Middle Ages |
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The Royal and Delightful Game of Piquet - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/org/Medieval/www/src/contributed/grm/games/piquet.html
The game of Piquet (or Cent, the game's English name in this period), has been played since at least the end of the 15th century. This site provides instructions on how to play the game. |
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Footwear of the Middle Ages - http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/SHOEHOME.HTM
An examination of the history, development, and techniques up to the end of the 16th century. |
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The Dark Ages - http://www.fscwv.edu/users/dyoung/Middle/
Online presentation giving an overview of Dark Ages themes such as daily life, economic revival and science. |
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Costuming - http://enigma.cs.ucla.edu/games/santiago/costuming.html
This site was intended as a guide to costuming for the game Murder on the Road to Santiago, but contains many details of what clothing was worn for daily life in medieval times. Sections include laypersons clothing and clothing worn by members of religious orders. |
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Forme of Cury - http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/foc/
Medieval recipes from "A Roll of Ancient English Cookery", which was compiled about 1390 CE. |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to Ancient Cookery - http://www.panix.com/~nexus/cooking/
These recipes are aimed at modern re-creation, but the original recipes are given. |
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Cauldrons and the Development of Cast Iron for Domestic Use - http://filebox.vt.edu/users/jselmer/cauldrons.htm
This article includes a paragraph on the use of cauldrons for medieval domestic use along with relevant illustrations. |
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The Vikings - Snayfwickby - http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/village.htm
Contain information about aspects of daily Viking life such as eating habits, animal rearing and travel. The site is aimed at 7 to 8 year old children, and was produced by Snaith Primary School in East Yorkshire, England. |