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What Was It Really Like to Live
in the Middle Ages?
www.learner.org/exhibits/
middleages/feudal.html
Overview of feudal life, with a section on the role of women.
Regia Anglorum
www.regia.org
Website of the re-enactment group Regia Anglorum, whose aim is to
re-create a cross-section of English life around the turn of the first
millennium.
Magna Carta
www.archives.gov/exhibits
/featured_documents/magna_carta/
translation.html
Full translation of the document that for the first time brought an English
monarch under the control of the law.
Sources of English History: English Peasants' Revolt, 1381
http://britannia.com/history/docs/
peasant.html
Details the 100,000-strong peasant uprising lead by Wat Tyler against
the crown.
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1s.html
Here you'll find a wealth of information on monasticism and the power of the Church.
Books
The Doomsday Book edited by Thomas Hinde (Random House, 1995)
£19.99
The medieval tax survey that provides a record of England and its inhabitants
in the 11th century, with lavish illustrations and maps.
Fabulous Feasts: Medieval cookery and ceremony by Madeleine Pelner
Cosman (George Brazilier, 1978) £15.99
Explores every aspect of medieval life as reflected in the food and the
eating habits of the Middle Ages.
The Paston Letters edited by Norman Davis
(Oxford Paperbacks, new ed 1999) £5.99
A collection of letters preserved by three generations of the Pastons,
a well-to-do Norfolk family, written around 1420-1504. They offer evidence
for the language of the time and show the contemporary historical, political
and social interests.
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