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The Newsletter for the Medieval History Site at About.comVol. II, No.12
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Our Latest Feature
Your Guide's review of James Reston's popular history of events surrounding the year 1000 A.D.
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And be sure to join us tonight at 9:30 Eastern time for a chat about the last millennium. Bring your questions and opinions about life in the year 1000 A.D.
Medieval Minutia
In the intrigue-ridden halls of Córdoba, Little Sancho plotted to remove his half-brother Al Malik from power and take his place. Poisoning one half of an apple, he ate the safe half while his brother consumed the poisoned one. Though Al Malik had been an inept and self-indulgent ruler, Little Sancho was worse, and in a matter of a few years he met a grisly end at the hands of the rebel, Ibn Abd al Jabbar.
Source: The Last Apocalypse by James Reston, Jr.
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Site Update
Some major reorganization has been done in our net links library. I've created a new net link index for Arts and Literature. Here you'll find:
- Architecture, divided into three pages:
- General Architecture
- Church Architecture
- Monastic Architecture
- Art, also divided into further segments:
- General Art
- Artists
- Book & Manuscript Art
- Eastern Medieval Art
- Drama and Literature, which has some new pages:
- Drama
- General Literature new
- Arthurian Studies
- Beowulf new
- William Shakespeare
- Writers and Poets new
- Music, divided into four pages:
- General Music History
- Composers
- Gregorian Chant
- Musical Instruments
In Our Forum
MARIAH20 is looking for assistance:
Does anyone know about medieval arts and crafts that would be suitable for lesson plans for 3rd grade? I'm looking for art lessons with simple materials that would be available in public school, such as construction paper, tempera paints, crayons, etc.
If you can help Mariah, please post a response.
RMILKINS would like your opinion:
Who was the greatest Medieval swordsman?I would like to open the discussion by casting Miyamoto Musashi as the greatest of those engulfed by the cult of the sword. He is credited with creating the two-sword style of fencing in feudal Japan and combined this with an aritistic ability second to none.
Post your opinion.
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Quote of the Knight
- Whether time is long or short, and whether space is
broad or narrow, depend upon the mind. Those whose minds
are at leisure can feel one day as a millennium, and
those whose thoughts are expansive can perceive a small
house to be as spacious as the universe.
Hung Tzu-ch'eng (1593-1665)
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Melissa Snell
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