Discusses the history of castles, their purpose and uses, and the role in society held by them and their inhabitants.

Text and cutaway illustrations depict how people lived and worked inside a medieval castle.

Describes daily life in the castles of Europe from the years 500 to 1500.

Describes the life of a medieval knight and the culture he lived in.

Including works by Paolo Uccello, Lucas Cranach, Pietr Brueghel the Younger, and Hieronymous Bosch, an introduction to the world of the medieval knight .

Jack and Annie look at knights, armor, and life in a castle.

After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to develop a vision of Western society that remains at the heart of Western civilization today. On visits to the great cities of Europe--monumental Rome; the intellectually explosive Paris of Peter Abelard and Thomas Aquinas; the hotbed of scientific study that was Oxford; and the incomparable...

Describes the development of cities during the late Middle Ages, 1100 through 1400, discussing how they varied in government, commerce, population, and culture and how they influenced the shaping of European civilization.

The Story of Medieval England: From King Arthur to the Tudor Conquest tells the remarkable story of a tumultuous thousand-year period. Dominated by war, conquest, and the struggle to balance the stability brought by royal power with the rights of the governed, it was a period that put into place the foundation of much of the world we know today. Taught by Professor Jennifer Paxton, an honored scholar and a professor at The Catholic University of America,...