The Middle Ages

At school or in a public library, begin by using the Computer Catalog (Lemon Bay's OPAC)
to do a Subject Search using the following

Search Terms -
Middle Ages -- History
Fourteenth Century
Fifteenth Century
Crusades
Middle Ages
Church History -- 600-1500
Feudalism
Knights

Call Numbers for Books on this subject are usually
909.07 or 940.1
See Also: Biographies

General Encyclopedias are a good starting place to get basic, background information about a subject. Use the Index (usually the last volume) to locate your subject. The following sets of encyclopedias are available in our media center:

Compton's Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Britannica
The World Book Encyclopedia

Print Resources:

Medieval Wordbook - 909.07 COS
Headlines in History: The 1000's - 940.1
Medieval History; The Life and Death of a Civilization - 914 CAN
The Early Middle Ages - 940.1 COR
The Reign of Chivalry - 394 BAR
The March of Islam, Time Frame, AD 600-800 -- 909 MAR
Age of Feudalism - 321 BIE
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages - 940.1 BUN

Dictionary of the Middle Ages - REF 909.07 DIC
Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia for Students - REF 909.07 MID
Dictionary of the Middle Ages - REF 909.07

Online Databases -

If you plan on accessing these sites from home,
be sure to ask the media specialists for the password-you'll need it!
Grolier Multimedia Online
eLibrary

Websites -

What was it really like to live in the middle ages? -- http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/feudal.html

Internet Medieval Sourcebook -- http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1.html

The End of Europe’s Middle Ages : Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries -- http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/endmiddle/FRAMES/econframe.html

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