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" Want to know what kind of jobs there were in the Middle Ages? A unique source from 15th century Germany gives us some beautiful images of medieval people at work. Known the House Books of the Nuremberg Twelve Brothers Foundation, these were records of a charitable foundation started in the city of Nuremberg in 1388. The foundation would take 12 poor and needy people and provide them with training in a trade."

"Ever since antiquity astronomy has consisted of both theory and observation, but these two components have often received different treatments in the original sources. In the medieval period we find many texts that present theories (even new theories) for the motions of the Sun, the Moon, and the planets; and other texts that describe instruments (some newly invented) for making observations. Moreover, medieval scholars carefully read various works that survived from antiquity, notably Ptolemy's Almagest, and these treatises served as a guide for the scientific study of astronomy. In particular, Ptolemy described methods of determining the planetary models (or parts of them) from sets of dated observations, and he gave numerous examples (including many based on observations he himself made) which take up a major portion of his magnus opus. In this respect, however, the vast majority of his successors did not follow him, for we find surprisingly few planetary observations in the medieval astronomical corpus. (A similar paucity of observations of the Sun, the Moon, and eclipses has also been noted.) Indeed, in most astronomical tables compiled in the Middle Ages observations play no role, and it can be demonstrated that the tabular entries are largely based on earlier astronomical theories."

"Despite the quality of the primary sources, almost everything about Hastings is up for debate: the course of the action, the numbers on each side and, famously, whether or not Harold was killed by an arrow in the eye. As one of the foremost experts of the previous century, R. Allen Brown, once ruefully observed, sometimes the only certainty about Hastings seems to be that the Normans won."

"This application shows the order in which all the 26 cantons joined the Swiss Confederation and it's based on Wikipedia and BFS datasources. Created by Vasile Coțovanu, the project it's powered by GeoAdmin API, Boostrap 3.0 and it's open-sourced on Github."

"The story of the Norman Conquest was told by more than a few medieval chroniclers, including William of Jumièges, William of Poitiers, Orderic Vitalis, William of Malmesbury and John of Worcester. For a more visual account, one can turn to the Bayeux Tapestry to see how the events of 1066 were depicted. Historians trying to reconstruct the events of the invasion of England and the Battle of Hastings generally make use of these sources. However, there are other lesser-known accounts of the Norman Conquest. Here we present two of these works, both written over a hundred years after the Battle of Hastings."

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The following are early church fathers and apologists of the first and second centuries. The first eight or nine documents are also known as the Apostolic Fathers. The writers known as the church fathers represent the ancient orthodox church as opposed to other elements of ancient Christianity such as Gnosticism. These are the church fathers and apologists that can be read on the Early Christian Writings web site.

Women in medieval times

Knighton's Chronicle 1337-1396 read online in Google Books

Periode Capetienne Abbé Suger: Sur la jeunesse de Louis VI le Gros, dans  la Vie de Louis VI le Gros Abbé Suger: De la prise du château de Montaigu 1103, dans   la Vie de Louis VI le Gros Abbé Suger: De la venue en France du pape Pascal II 1107, dans   la Vie de Louis VI le Gros Abbé Suger: Louis VI s'attaque aux châteaux de Gournay et Sainte-Sévère 1107-1108, dans  la Vie de Louis VI le Gros Abbé Suger: La mort de Philippe Ier 1108, dans  la Vie de Louis VI le Gros Abbé Suger: Quant Louis devint roi 1108, dans  la Vie de Louis VI le Gros Abbé Suger: De méchants seigneurs 1108, dans  la Vie de Louis VI le Gros Traictié de la forme et devis d'ung tournoy 1108, [At Princeton]

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Crusader Castles in the Holy Land 1097-1192 

The Oxford history of the Crusades

The central convent of Hospitallers and Templars

Archaeology of the military orders: a survey of the urban centres,

The Hospitallers and the Holy Land: financing the Latin East, 1187-1274

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