Middle Ages History List

1 Leaves of Gold: Treasures of Manuscript Illumination

http://www.leavesofgold.org/

The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents this beautiful on-line tour exhibit of illuminated medieval manuscripts hand-produced books that include drawn, painted, and gilded decoration on pages made of vellum, a specially prepared and polished animal skin which were as rare as jewels and as precious as gold because they were made by handmade and have some of the gold used for illumination and some colors are made of ground-up jewels.

2 Enter the Middle Ages

http://www.themiddleages.net/

For several hundred years, from about the first to around the fifth century AD, Rome was the greatest power on Earth, ruling Britain and the countries around the Mediterranean Sea, and around 400 AD, the Roman Empire began to weaken and the northern tribes swept across the continent of Europe and plundered the city of Rome, then the Roman Empire collapsed and was gradually replaced by many small kingdoms.

3 The Middle Ages

http://www.byu.edu/ipt/projects/middleages/

Legends of Arthur, March of Arthur, The Holy Grail, Armor Making, Arts and Literature, Wife of Bath , and Games such as Danse Macabre MUSH, Gwyddbwyll: A Welsh Board Game, Piquet: An English Card Game and about the people and their life and times.

4 The Labyrinth :

http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/

The Labyrinth a web resource for Medieval Studies from Georretown University provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through easy-to-use menus and links provide connections to databases, services, texts, and images on other servers around the world to give users an "Ariadnes thread" through the maze of information.

5 Medieval Technology

http://scholar.chem.nyu.edu/~tekpages/Subjects.html

The Medieval Technology Pages are an attempt to provide accurate, referenced information on technological innovation and related subjects in western Europe during the Middle Ages with this information accessible through a subject index which provides direct access to all the technology pages or via a historical timeline.

6 Internet Medieval Sourcebook

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

The medieval history index supported by Fordham University.

7 The History of the Inquisition

http://net2.netacc.net/~mafg/jtchick/inquistn.htm

Explanation of the Albigensian wars where the detection and punishment of these heretics the Council of Toulouse (1229) established a special ecclesiastical tribunal known as the Inquisition.

8 The Roman Inquisition

http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Student_Work/Trial96/

An overview of the history of the Inquisition (Medieval, Spanish and Roman) with short biographies of other important figures prosecuted by the Inquisition, primarily the Italian and Roman Inquisitions, description of the process of the Roman Inquisition. TIMELINE Timeline of the Inquisition: from Medieval to the present and information on censorship in the Italian Inquisitions, with chief emphasis laid on the Congregation of the Index.

9 Inquisition Record of Jacques Fournier

http://web.archive.org/web/20070929124343/http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/Fournier/jfournhm.htm

The Inquisition Record of Jacques Fournier Bishop of Pamiers 1318-1325 An English translation of selected confessions by Cathar heretics and Jews to Bishop Jacques Fournier and the Inquisition at Pamiers (France).

10 Inquisition Regions

http://odyssy.net/users/erica/wicca/regions.htm

The Inquisition regions in Europe.