THE "BIG TEN" VERY SPECIAL PAGES

Virtual Renaissance - A Journey Through Time - A SPECIAL SITE

For the Renaissance, spend a day on this site.  "Travel back through time and space to a world completely different from your own. The incredibly creative " New Apprentices on The Way to Guild Hall." Stunning and remarkable project by the faculty and students of Twin Groves Junior High School really has no competition.  If this level of writing and creativity is indicative of what young students can do, some of American education, at least, is producing miracles.

Odin's Castle of Dreams & Legends - SPECIAL CREATIVITY

Archive of History and Historical Resources. "Welcome to Odin's Castle of Dreams & Legends. The pages that follow are dedicated to those of you who have, as I have, dreamed the dream, or longed for the days of long, long ago. . .   A misty, mysterious time full of heroes, romance, chivalry, and legends."  Dawn of Man to Ancient Times. Gods, Goddesses, Vikings, Mongols.  Dark Ages to Renaissance. King Arthur, Robin Hood, Crusades, Religion. Ships, and Sea. The Great Wars.  History of Science and Medicine, resources for educators, students, reenactors.  This site is like a whirlpool that can suck up a lot of your time!

Grover Furr's Medieval History and Literature Page - SPECIAL LINKS

Essential resource links located on this web site! Basic Medieval Resources on the Web, Chaucer, Middle English and Other Medieval Literatures, Journals and Criticism, History, Art, Music, and Culture. Medieval History Course by Paul Halsall of Fordham University presenting an excellent course outline summarizing "The End of the Classical World to the Later Middle Ages." If you can't find what you're browsing for on our fantastic site, Mr. Furr's reference of links is a great option.

Mad Monarch Series - SPECIAL ROYALTY

"Series of short biographies of the personal lives of history's mad monarchs, sadistic Sultans, terrible Tsars, crazy caesars, deranged dukes." Thoughtful examination of peculiar behavior patterns and little known physical handicaps of royalty from antiquity to the 1800's. Beats 90210 or Melrose Place by a wide margin and proves truth is definitely stranger than fiction.

NM's Creative Impulse.. Baroque  - SPECIAL CREATIVITY

Websters defines Baroque as "having the characteristics of a style of artistic expression prevalent especially in the 17th century."  Great site containing annotated links to people, events, art, architecture, literature, drama, music, dance, daily life, culture of the Baroque period. You can find anything from mainstream historical chronology to trivia like Captain Kidd and the history of coffee.

Pre-Enlightenment Europe - SPECIAL ESSAY

Analytical essay on the historical developments of the seventeenth century and history of ideas preceding Age of Enlightenment. France, Prussia, Austria, and even Russia. Useful links to The Wars of Religion. and what Divine Right of Kings was all about.   "European history throughout the 17th and 18th centuries took a variety of contradictory turns...The two centuries that bracket the Enlightenment saw the development of absolute monarchies and more tightly-centralized governments...Because of this growth in absolute and centralized power of the national government and the monarchy, this age in European history is generally called the Age of Absolutism (1660-1789)." Important to work through the entire site.

Welcome to the Middle Ages:  A SPECIAL HIGH SCHOOL EFFORT

Index of Materials, books, sites on the Middle Ages.  Great series on armor. Banners, Calendar, Cathedrals, Common People, Crusades Songs, Dances, Football, Fortune and Her Wheel, Humanism, Knights, Marriage Customs, Plague. Newspaper-Style Articles with Headlines: Beckett Dies, Black Death Spreads, The Plague: Will it Ever End?, Anti-Semitic Feelings During the Middle Ages, Children Hurled At Walls, Order of the Garter Formed. People such as Bernard, Chaucer, Charlemagne, Dante, Petrarch. Stunning site created by the Timpview High School Ancient History Class.

The Witching Hours - SPECIAL INVESTIGATIVE

Twelfth - eighteenth centuries . "The early modern period was a time in which being a woman could be a crime in and of itself - a crime often punishable by death." Serious investigative site that leaves no stone unturned. Comprehensive, passionate and artistically presented."Documents of the Witch Craze, Magic, Spells, and Potions, Modern Parallels, People of the Witchcraze, Punishment, Torture, and Ordeal, Traits of the Witches.

Dominion and Domination of the Gentler Sex:  The Lives of Medieval Women - SPECIAL SITE

Site down until February. "They were wives and writers, lovers and soldiers, mothers and midwives, scientists and traders. The day-to-day lives of medieval women of all classes and callings are often glossed over in modern history courses in favor of sequences of events. Not so here. This is the CITY OF WOMEN." Web-city highlights the roles, so often invisible, of medieval women. "So how much DO you know about medieval women? Take the quiz and find out.
VISIT THE CITY Take a tour to examine the roles -- predictable and unexpected -- of medieval women.  Inside a medieval walled city, . . . noisy and smelly. . . Streets were pitch-black at night and watchmen and thieves patrolled the streets."  
THE DISTAFF SIDE:  "Women and the circumstances of birth, childhood, marriage, and death. Women and religion in the Middle Ages -- mystics, monastics, and anchorites."

THE MARKETPLACE and THE ARMORY:  "Women were invaluable to medieval economics. Focus on women in businesses of all sizes. AND Medieval women were soldiers long before the WAACs. Whether as defenders, commanders, or mercenaries, women made their mark on medieval warfare."

THREADNEEDLE STREET and THE APOTHECARY:  "The fashion center of the City of Women. Here you can see fashion hits from the 11th to the 14th Centuries as well as the latest from the 15th. Information on medicine, science, and witchcraft.

THE ARTS:  "From famous writers to nameless actors, many contributors to the medieval art scene were women, who created literature, music, theatre, dance, and visual art."

BIOGRAPHIES: "General information about the lives of medieval women in various occupations," and information about specific women. This very special site created by members of ThinkQuest Team.