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The Newsletter for the Medieval History Site at the Mining Co.Vol. I, No.6 July 24, 1998 |
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This Week's Feature
Conflagration: The Peasants' Revolt, Part 2
In Part 1: The Fire is Laid, we saw how conditions were ripe for a peasant uprising in fourteenth-century England. This week we'll look at what triggered the revolt and its immediate effects.
Part 2: A Spark Ignites the Blaze
In the News
The Snorri Sets Sail from Sisimiut
The Viking Voyage 1000 is back on the open sea after equipment failures extended their stay in Sisimiut, Greenland. Now expedition leader W. Hodding Carter faces a difficult decision: to try crossing the Davis Strait to Labrador or to set a course for Baffin Island. The Davis Strait is an open crossing with no place to land, and Baffin Island would be safer; but weather troubles may make the island unapproachable.
And be sure to check out the Snorri daily journal at Beyond Lands' End.
Medieval Minutia
So significant was the longbow as a technologically superior weapon that in 1337, King Edward III of England, hoping to counteract the numeric disadvantage of his armies in the war against France, prohibited all sport but archery on pain of death and canceled all debts of anyone who produced the weapon and its arrows.
Source: A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
Find out more about the longbow at our page of net links on Armor & Weaponry.
Site Update
This week, we're a little light on new links, as I am in the process of reevaluating our net link organization. However, I have two new net link categories to offer you:
New links have been also added to the following net link
categories:
- Armor & Weaponry
- The Decline of the Longbow
- A Glossary of Archery
- The Medieval English Longbow
- Steel Bows in India (also added to Medieval India)
- Castles
- Castle Studies Group
- Living History
- The Middle Ages in Our Century (from your Mining Co. Guide)
- The Adrian Empire
- Medieval Britain
- Kings and Queens of England and Scotland
- The End of Roman Britain
- International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
- Medieval Europe
- Medieval Serbia
- Medieval Iberia
- The AARHMS
- Vikings and Scandinavian History
- Fröjel Discovery Programme (also added to Archaeology)
- Ruins of Gardar (also added to Archaeology and Religion)
- "Viking" Pilgrimage to the Holy Land (also added to Religion
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Be sure to check out our many other net link categories; or check out all the Latest Links .
Feedback Wanted
Is there a net link category you think we need to add to our directory? Do you ever have difficulty finding what you're looking for? Do you know of a site you think should be listed here?
If so, please email me and tell me all about it.
Medieval History Quizlet
Come to our quizlet page and see the results of the last question and the new question for this week.
Quote of the Knight
- He that will not apply new remedies must expect new
evils, for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
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Melissa Snell
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