Middle Ages

Life in medieval Europe

• arts and cultural life
  • literature
  • poetry
  • dance
  • architecture and sculpture
  • European music
    • the troubador
  • murals and paintings
  • tapestry, and handicrafts
  • books, manuscripts, scribes and the art of making books
  • universities
• monastic orders
  • Benedictines
  • Carthusians
  • Cistercians
• mendicant friars
  • Dominicans
  • Franciscans
  • Carmelites
• Black Death and health of populations
• politics and religion
  • Crusades
  • Papacy
  • Inquisition
  • Heresy e.g John Wyclif
  • Alchemy
• everyday life in the Middle Ages
  • guilds of craftsmen
  • Danse macabre

See also:

• warfare
• fortification
• siege weaponry
• Inquisition
• European music
• dance
• Pilgrimage
• Romanesque Architecture

External Garb Links

• One theory on how to make a bliaut and one of the better methods - http://bliautlady.50megs.com/
• The clothing index for Marguerie's Pages - http://jauncourt.i8.com/costume.htm
• Some Extant Clothing of the Middle Ages - http://www.virtue.to/articles/extant.html
• Some clothing of the Middle Ages, includes many sketches - http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/cloth/bockhome.html
• Marc Carlsons' Excellent site. Goes up until the end of the 16th century - http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/SHOEHOME.HTM
• Comparative study of Extant garments relevant to East Denmark - http://www.forest.gen.nz/Medieval/articles/garments/garments.html
• Robin Netherton's excellent work on the gothic fitted dress - http://netherton.net/robin/
• Another way of making kirtles - http://sca-garb.freservers.com/articles/corikirtle.html
• Ten gore dress from Herjolfnes - http://sca-garb.freservers.com/articles/cotehardie.html
• Summary of WOmen's Cotehardies - http://www.loudzen.com/users/jessica/cotehardie/index.html