Truthquest Middle Ages

sections

• 1 The Great Chessboard
• Think Write 1 Investigation Supreme!
• 2 A Cast of Thousands:The Barbarians Onstage
• Think write 2 Shuffling the Deck!
• 2a Genreal Resources
• 2b Attila the Hun
• 3 Heart of Barbarian
• think Write 3 What'chya believe?
• 3a General resource
• 3b Beowulf
• 4 The Angles and Saxons are Coming for a Visit
• 5 Mighty King Arthur
• Think Write 4 Yeah, King Arthur
• 5a General Resources
• 5b Related stories
• 5c Celts
• 6 Clovis and the Franks
• 7 Spain and Italy...and Their Unwelcome Guests
• 8 Justinian Has His Say
• 8a Justinian
• 8b Theodora
• 8c Belisarius
• 8d Byzantine history
• 8e Byzantine art and architecture
• 9 The Church Bursts Forth!
• 9a Genreal Resources
• 9b Monasteries and monks
• 9c St. Benedict
• 9d Irish Monks
• 9e Columba of Scotland
• 9f Gregory the Great
• 9g Augustine
• 9h Paulinius, St. Aidan, St. Cuthbert, St hilda, and a Queen
• 9i Boniface
• 10 Meanwhile, back on the Ranch
• 10a The Frank and Visigothic Spain
• 10b Nibelungenlied
• 11 A New Force: Islam!
• 11a General Overview
• 11b In Depth Study
• 12 A Case of Bad TIming: More Frankish Chaos with " Mayors of the Palace"
• 13 Islam on the March:Moorish Spain
• 14 Islam Reaches Deeper: Charles Martle and the Battle of Poitiers/Tours
• 15 Pepin the Short...and Church Power
• 16 Roll Out the Red Carpet for a star of teh Dark Ages : Charlemange
• Think Write 5 Charlemange-houw great was he?
• 16a Charlemange
• 16b Roland, Charlemange Knight
• 16c Haroun al-Rashid, Caliph
• 17 chaos Propels Europe to Feudalism..On teh Eve of NAother Invasion
• Think Write 6 Feudalism
• 17a Feudalism
• 17b General overview of the Middle Ages
• 17c Knights
• 18 Viking Raids
• 19 England reels Under Viking Attacks: Alfred the Great
• 19a Egbert the Saxon
• 19b Alfred the Great
• 19c Alfred descendants continue to resist the Vikings
• 19d Etherlred the Unready and Edmund Ironside
• 19e Canute, the Danish king of England
• 19f Edward the Confessor:England returns to a Saxon king
• 19g Scottish focus;Macbath
• 19g Historical Macbeth
• 19g Shakespearean Macbeth
• 19g Queen Margaret
• 20 Frankland Reels Under Viking Attacks: Eudes, Rollo, and Hugh capet
• 21 Leif Erikson: A Big Discovery and Bigger Change
• Think Write 7 Leif turns over a new leaf!
• 22 Off to Russia!
• 23 Off to Germany!
• 24 Off to Spain!
• 25 Phew:The Church at teh Year 1000
• Think Write 8 Darkness Lifts
• 26 Norman Conquest
• 26a harold Godwinson and William the Conqueror ( conquest , reign, and descendants)
• 26b Tower of London and Norman-Romanesque architecture
• 26c Anselm
• 26d Hereward the Wake
• 27 Castles
• 28 Crusades!
• Think Write 9 Crusades!
• 28a General overview
• 28b Persecution of Jew in Europe
• 29 The Plot Thickens!
• 30 A Crazy Couple: Henry II and Elenor of Aquitaine
• 30a Henry and Eleanor
• 30b Henry II and the Archbishop Thomas a Becket
• 30c Henry II conquered portions of Ireland
• 31 Richard the Lionheart
• 31a King Richard
• 31b Saladin
• 31c Krak des Chevaliers
• 32 Prince John, the Magna Charta, and Robin Hood
• 32a Prince John and the Magna Charta
• 32b Robin Hood
• 33 France in the 12th Century...and the Birth of Gothic Cathedrals
• 33a Doings in France
• 33b Bernard of Clairvaux and Abbe Suger
• 33c Magnificent medieval cathedrals
• 33d Stained glass windows
• 33e Notre Dame Cathedral of Paris
• 34 Germany in the twelfth century...and Frederick Barbarossa
• 35 Medieval towns
• ThinkWrite 10 Division
• 35a General Overview
• 35b Guilds and the Hanseatic League
• 35c Venic and Genoa
• 36 Good 'Ol Stories
• 36a General Topics
• 36b Kings and queens
• 36c Falconry
• 36d Minstrels, bards, and troubadours
• 37 New Voices in teh Church: Dominic, Francis or Assisi, and Others
• 37a St. Francis and Clare of Assisi
• 37b St. Dominic
• 37c Monks and Nuns
• 37d Peter Waldo (Valdes) and the Waldensians
• 37e Theodoric
• 37f Other Christian Figures
• 38 Terror Strikes Europe: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Invaders!
• 39 The Thirteenth Century
• 39a Food, clothing and homes
• 39b A great mathematician: Leonard Fibonacci (Leonard of Pisa)
• 39c General medieval handcrafts and art
• 39d Knights
• 39e Frederick II
• 40 Louis, King and Saint
• 41 England gets a Real Parliament
• 42 Medieval Learning: Thomas Aquinas and Roger Bacon
• 42a Thomas Aquinas
• 42b Roger Bacon
• 42c Medieval thought and education
• 43 Marco Polo
• 43a Polo's journey
• 43b Kublai Khan
• 44 Giotto
• 45 The House of Hapsburg
• 46 Epic Battle: William Wallace and Robert Bruce the Edwards of England
• 47 William Tell
• 48 John Wycliffe - ThinkWrite 11: "What's up with Wycliffe?"
• 49 The Hundred Years's War Begins!
• 49a General Overview...
• 49b Flanders and conflict over wool trade
• 50 Bubonic Plague!
• 51 Charles the Wise
• 52 Peasant Revolts!
• 53 A Young King and a Young Cousin-Richard II and Henry Bolingbroke
• 53a General Overview...
• 53b Dick Whittington and his cat!
• 54 Moorish Spain
• 54a General overview...
• 54b Alhambra
• 55 A Famous Book: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
• 56 The Hundred Years' War Winds Down...Thanks to a Teenage Girl!
• 56a General Overview...
• 56b Joan of Arc (1412-1431)
• 57 Tamerlane (Timur)
• 58 Drawing the Curtain on the Middle Ages