Webliography – Webquest (Women in Medieval Times)

The Middle Ages

An excellent starting point—information is organized into different categories.

http://herstoryweb.users1.50megs.com/middleages.html

 

Dominion & Domination of the Gentle Sex: The Lives of Medieval Women

Good source for information on women and their roles in the Middle Ages.

http://library.thinkquest.org/12834/index.html

 

The Annenberg/CPB Exhibits: What Was It Really Like to Live in the Middle Ages

Information is organized into various sections and presented at an appropriate reading level for sixth graders.

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/clothing.html

 

Women’s Clothing in the Middle Ages by Sharon Carroll

Good description of women’s clothing according to their status in life.

http://www.millersv.edu/~english/homepage/duncan/medfem/cloth.html

 

 

Medieval Women

Gives information on individual women and there is a troubadour’s link that explores the impact of men leaving for the Crusades.

http://georgetown.edu/labyrinth/subjects/women/women.html

 

 

Medieval Women’s Headdress and Costume

Black and white drawings of headdress and a few costumes.

http://www.costumes.org/pages/mediheaddress.htm

 

Women’s Early Music, Art & Poetry

Biographies, discographies, and sound files.

http://150.252.8.92/www/iawm/pages/

 

Medieval Women and Music

Description of how women were involved in music during the Middle Ages.

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/~cyrus/ORB/orbwomen.htm

 

Women in Medieval Guilds

A look at craft guilds separated into six broad categories.

http://www.lonestar.texas.net/~rferrell/wimguild.html

 

Avoid It Like the Plague

In this webquest the student is assigned a task to be completed within a team.  The task is to create some solutions for the church to maintain its control over the populace in the face of the famine and Black Plague.

http://students.itec.sfsu.edu/edt628/ascendedone/plagueII.html

 

Life In The Middle Ages: A Medieval WebQuest

This is an online webquest.  which incorporates the multiple intelligences and gives the students options for their tasks.

http://topcat.bridgew.edu/~kschrock/ED560/thaxter/index.htm