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1. Medieval Quest Develop your child's love for history as you undertake a hands-on exploration of the Dark and Middle Ages. There are many exciting themes relating to this time period and a wealth of excellent literature written about it. On this page you will find l...
2. Middle Age Freebies We are currently doing a unit study on the Middle Ages that will last all year long. In our research we have already gathered a ton of links and we needing a place to put them that we could add a brief description on. It never fails that just when yo...
3. Castles of England This lens is about the beautiful and amazing castles of Britain, which I hope to some day visit. I've always been fascinated with castles. Since there's so many, and I have a ways to go to list more, I will never list all of them. Just my favorites...
4. The Invention of the Clock Having accurate time measurement is something that we take for granted. We have clocks everywhere that we go. We wear clocks on our wrists, carry them around on cell phones, view them on our ovens and DVD players, and can find them just about anywher...
5. Nicolaus Copernicus Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus revolutionized science by postulating that the earth and other planets revolve about a stationary sun. Developed in the early 1500s but not published until years later, his heliocentric (sun-centered) theory disp...
6. The Black Death This is an article that I wrote for a history magazine for homeschooled middle and high school students. It contains a brief overview of what the Black Death was and how it functioned. Study questions for students below.
7. Castle Unit Study Links These are links that go along with our Middle Ages study but we ran out of room on the other page.
8. Medieval Weddings: How To Plan Your Fairy Tale Wedding Having a Medieval wedding is certainly not a "traditional" theme to choose. Although it can be more difficult to plan, a Medieval or Renaissance theme lends itself to having your wedding guests interact and participate with the wedding cere...
9. Medieval Weapons Starting with the major Medieval seige weapons and moving through the other common weapons of that historical era. Eventually this page will be a large resource for everything involving Medieval Weapons.
10. Magic Tree House- The Knight at Dawn Study Guide Magic Tree House series is both fun and educational for younger school age children. In Magic Tree House, two siblings named Jack and Annie are transported through time via a tree house and end up in a lot of historical stories. This particular story...
11. Camera Lucida: a lens for the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) Welcome all! This lens is a place for all things related to the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism). I hope you find it useful; please feel free to contact me if you have any compliments, complaints, or suggestions. Enjoy! For those who don't know...
12. The History of Ancient Plumbing Latin word for lead is plumbum, from which we derive the words plumber and plumbing. Plumbing refers to the specific water and sewage devices and systems of a building, while water and sewage systems refer to the systems that supply a group of buildi...
13. Baron the Friesian One of the most incredible Friesian stallions for crossbreeding you will ever find! We are pleased to announce Baron is now double registered with Friesians of America (FOA) as well as FPS. Read on to learn more about Baron the Friesian and this r...
14. Medieval Prayers This is a collection of medieval prayers that I provide my customers who are looking for something different or more traditional to pray.
15. Big In Medieval Philosophy? Who is the Medieval world's biggest thinker? Dante? St Augutine? Boethius? What is the Medieval mind? Are the ideas of the Middle Ages similar or different to his contempory thinking about the world? How did medieval people make sense of the p...
16. Music In The Middle Ages This lens is about music of the Middle Ages; also known as the medieval period, medieval, or Dark Ages. The Middle Ages started at about 450 AD after the fall of the Roman Empire and  lasted until 1450. Until 450 AD, Christianity (originally an u...
17. Artellus "Art From Earth" Welcome to my lens featuring items for sale with my Medieval Art-inspired designs, and info about the 15th Century artworks that have inspired my art.
18. The Middle Ages The Middle Ages (or Medieval Era) was the period in western Europe that lasted from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century (476 AD) until the 15th century and the Renaissance. Part of this period -- from 476 AD till 1000 AD -- is so...
19. Charlemagne Charlemagne (742-814), also known as Charles the Great, was a king and emperor of France. He later extended his empire into Italy. He fought the Moors in northern Spain and his exploits were celebrated in the great poem, the Chansons de Roland. The...
20. Hildegard von Bingen Throughout the Middle Ages, women had a life that was totally dominated by the male members of the family. They were expected to be very submissive and instantly obey not only their fathers and husbands, but other male members as well. Any kind of &q...