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The Newsletter for the Medieval History Site at About.com Vol. II, No.16 October 12, 1999   •The Quest for Conquest •Columbus Letter •Ductch Mutineers •Viking Stereotypes

 

Our Latest Feature

The Quest for Conquest

Test your knowledge of the events surrounding the Norman Conquest and the people involved.

  

 

In the News

Columbus letter discovered

A fragment of a manuscript signed by Christopher Columbus has been discovered in a private archive in Naples. For more information, see the article at the Times by Richard Owen.

Remains of Dutch shipo mutiny victims found

Archaeologists believe they have discovered the remains of survivors from the shipwreck of the Batavia on Beacon Island, Australia. The skeletons are believed to have been victims of mutineers of the seventeenth-century Dutch ship. For more, see the article at Fox News.

 

 

Medieval Minutia

Christopher Columbus owned a copy of Marco Polo's Travels and made notations on more than 70 pages that illustrate how Polo influenced him and his own voyages.

Source: The Encyclopedia Americana

 

For more about Marco Polo, see the the feature by About.com Geography Guide Matt Rosenberg.

For more about Columbus and Columbus day, visit the article by About.com American History Guide David Schwalbe.

 

 

Site Update

Links have been added to the following NetLink pages:

 

Castles

Castles in Britain

The Ins and Outs of Borthwick Castle

Castles in Europe

Château de la Guillonnière (also added to France)

Château de Saint-Loup (also added to France)

Ranton Castle (also added to France)

 

Medieval Britain

Medieval Britain: General

The Great Fire of London

Cromwell: A powerful historical figure--warts and all

The Curious Career and Uncertain Past of Perkin Warbeck

England's Warrior-King Edward I

Fryar Roger Called Bachon (also added to Science & Technology)

Sir Thomas Becket (also added to Hagiography)

The Tudors at Hampton Court

Magna Carta Exhibit at NARA

TRANSITIONS: English Feudal Development, 1016-1135

(also added to Norman Conquest)

Dark-Age Britain

Anglo-Saxon England

Anglo-Saxon England

The Life of King Alfred

The Historical King Arthur

In Search of the Real King Arthur

The Saxon Advent

Medieval Ireland

The Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland (also added to Battles)

Irish Triumph at the Yellow Ford (also added to Battles)

The Norman Conquest

1066: The Effects of the Norman Conquest

Battle of Hastings

The Norwegian Invasion of England, September 1066

Domesday Book and Beyond...

Domesday Revisited

Laws of William the Conqueror

Norman Castles in Wales

William Malet: Companion of William the Conqueror, 1066

Medieval Scotland

Annals of Dumfermline

 

Medieval Europe

Byzantine Studies

Belisarius' Bid for Rome (also added to Battles)

France

Louis XIV: French Mastermind

History of the Ranton Area

 

Military History

The Crusades

Dorylaeum, 1097 AD

Taking Jerusalem: Climax of the First Crusades

Wars

The Battle of the Three Suns: Mortimer's Cross (also added to Battles)

 

 

 

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Medieval History Mini-Quiz

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Elsewhere at About.com

I lived there, off and on, for more than fifteen years. I went to college there at the University of Texas. I've done Halloween on Sixth Street, swum at Barton Springs, attended free concerts at Zilker, watched classic films at the Paramount, danced the night away at Carnival, and ushered in the New Year at Liberty Lunch. It's the greatest town in Texas, and you can visit it on the web with your Guides Judy Litt and Jacci Howard Baer. Check out their virtual tour of Austin.

 

  

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I hope you enjoyed this edition of the Knightly Newsletter! Thanks for reading it, and thanks for visiting the Medieval History site!

Melissa Snell
Your Medieval History Guide at About.com

 

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