Mr. Haskell
World History
13 October 2004
Webliography
The web site I chose is a very good website if you want to get an outlook on the history of the Middle Ages. The website provides information that allows the reader to imagine living in the Middle Ages. This was a sentence on the website, �To begin your journey into the Middle Ages, try to picture a world with far fewer people, where no one moved away from their hometown, and life moved at a slower pace. There was no electricity, no water from faucets, no television, and no cars.� With those two sentences and a few other sentences and a pretty good imagination, you can get a feeling of what it was like back then. The website also gave a very basic outline of how it was Europe at its peek then there was a gap and after the gap it was the Renaissance period and the gap was the Middle Ages or Medieval period. Without many luxuries that the people of the Middle Ages had seen before them they did a pretty good job. They made advancements in art, literature, science, and medicine. If it wasn�t for some other ideas that the people of the Middle Ages came up with then they, the renaissance Period wouldn�t have been as successful. The information I just provided can be compared to the world today in that we need a period like the middle ages in our world, a period in which the people have very little luxuries and necessities and build the society back up from scratch so that the future years can be successful. This website would serve as a good source for anyone doing a report on the Middle Ages. The website has to do with our world history class because we have been learning about the middle ages through our book, Mr. Haskell�s lectures and through projects such as our journal where we became a person in the Middle Ages.
Gilbert, Rachel, The Middle Ages, http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/middleages/ , October 13, 2004
This website gives a basic outline of the events that happened in the Middle Ages, it tells about religion, philosophy, and even physical fitness. This website shows that the Middles Ages had many things going on during the time saying that �Middle Ages was a time that ranged from the athletic feats of knights during the age of chivalry to the use of sport in preparation for crusades to the ascetic views of monks who believed the body was an endless source of trouble.� The website talks about how the trade, commerce, and public administration basically disappeared during the Middle Ages and how castles and big walls were being built for protection. During the middle ages Greek philosophy and Christianity kind of blended together with some Christians liking it and some opposing the situation. The website also talks about St. Thomas Aquinas and how he took the idea of physical fitness and recreation and used it as a positive force in promoting social and moral well-being. A saying that he said and that I liked was �we can come to know things through our bodies as well as through our mind, although the mind was to remain superior to the body�. This is perfectly true from when Aquinas lived all the way to today. We can not let our bodies be superior to our minds which goes with the concept that it is education over athletic at Mission Viejo High School. This website gave me more information to store in my knowledge nugget and would give a lot of people more information because this website ahs some interesting facts on it that a lot of people wouldn�t know.
Daniel Frankl, Ph.D., http://instructional1.calstatela.edu/dfrankl/CURR/kin375/k260ch5.htm, October 13, 2004
The last website I chose was about the Black Death, this website is an unbelievable bank of information about the Black Death. The website has information about the disease, its origins, what the affect of it was and basically anything you can think of. The Black Death�s medical term is the Bubonic Plague, which is Bacillus which is an organism usually carried by rodents. Fleas take over the rodent usually a rat and also move into a human very easily. If a flea gets into the human then it takes the infected blood from the rodent and infects the human and in the end the flea lives and the rodent and the human die. Once infected and the first symptoms showing up, high fever, aching limbs, the human has about 3 to 4 days of hell to deal with until he or she is put of misery and is dead. There is swelling of the lymph nodes which are found in the armpits, groin and neck, the swelling gives off a visible black color which gives name to the Black death and later the nodes burst killing the person later. We now have medicine to treat the bubonic plague but historians still questioned the 1348 outbreak and how it could kill so many people. The conclusion was that there was more than one plague. They came up with septicemia plague which attacked the blood and pneumonic plague which attacked the lungs and was transferred through the air. This website has much more information to offer and the information gets you hooked on to the subject. Death and what causes death is a very interesting subject and the Black Death is no exception. This topic has to do with what we are studying in class because it was a key topic in the later Middle Ages and we are studying the middle ages.
Skip Knox, http://history.boisestate.edu/westciv/plague/15.shtml, October 13, 2004