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Health: What was it really like to
live in the Middle Ages?
www.learner.org/exhibits/
middleages/health.html
Clear overview of medieval medicine, plus a chance to try your hand at medieval diagnosis.

The Medieval Child: Childbirth
http://historymedren.about.com
/library/weekly/aa101900b.htm
Article on childbirth in the Middle Ages, with links to many other aspects of the hazards of being born and growing up in those troubled times.

Books

The Black Death by Philip Ziegler (Penguin, 1998) £8.99
Ziegler's classic account traces the course of the virulent epidemic through Europe and its dramatic effect on society. It includes a reconstruction of life in an English village suddenly overtaken by plague.

A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman (Papermac, 1995) £13.99
Historical study of medieval warfare, the Black Death and bizarre superstitions.

Medieval Warfare edited by Maurice Keen (Oxford Paperbacks, 2001) £15
Explores over 700 years of European warfare, from the time of Charlemagne to the end of the Middle Ages.

Crime in Medieval Europe 1200-1550 by Trevor Dean (Longman, 2001) £20
History of lawlessness and legal retribution in medieval Europe, using court records to illustrate the lives of ordinary men and women.

Medieval Combat by Hans Talhoffer, edited by Mark Rector (Greenhill, 2000) £14.95
Talhoffer's 1467 'fight book' of 1467 illustrates the intricacies of the medieval art of fighting, covering both the 'judicial duel' (for resolving legal disputes) and personal combat.

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