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Where's a good place 2 learn about Medieval times!!!?

Question Details: Not the dinner and a show place... I need 2 learn about the real medieval times... because i'm writing a story called " The Knight's Creed" but i want 2 know more about that time before writing about it... So can some1 point me in the right way??? Thank you!!!


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: First off, let's begin our tour with Wikipedia's entry on the Middle Ages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/middle_ages... (or, if you don't mind abstruse language, try the Columbia Encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/middle_ages... ).

Now that you've got a general understanding of the era, click on over to http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/mefrm... and explore what the people of the time had to say. Still can't get enough? Try http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1n.h...

Let's narrow our focus here. Have a look at Wikipedia's article, "Knights." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/knight... Explore the links a little.

Done? Check out the websites below. And don't forget to visit your local public library, the end-all be-all of reliable information!

http://www.medievalknights.com/... - general website
http://www.deremilitari.org/resources/re... - Medieval Military History
http://www.heraldica.org/topics/orders/o... - History of the Orders of Chivalry
http://www.themiddleages.net/ - general website

Novels set in the Middle Ages. I suggest you flip through a few to get an idea of what the language is like, and *gasp*, maybe even read a few all the way through. Ivanhoe is the most well-known, and it never hurts to read good literature. Don't worry, this is all legal. These books are all public domain.

Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe - http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/s/s...

More Sir Walter Scott - http://www.online-literature.com/walter_...

Novels set in the Middle Ages - http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/web...

For the books on this list, you'll have to visit the library. They're relatively recent and easy to read, but Sir Walter Scott is always the best (see above)! http://www.uoregon.edu/~midages/novels.s...

Read all about the major figures of Arthurian legend in in-depth detail http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/mai...

Note: The Middle Ages covers quite a lot of chronological ground, and unless you elaborate on the era you're looking at (The Crusades, the Norman Conquest, etc.), I can't do more.

Happy writing (or should I say reading?)!