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  1. Atlas of World History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
  2. Common Women
    Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England (Studies in the History of Sexuality)

    Resource Type: Book
    Karras analyzes medieval attitudes towards prostitutes and female sexuality.
  3. Dictionary of the Middle Ages
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  4. A Distant Mirror
    The calamatious 14th century

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
  5. A Dream of John Ball
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1888
    Morris' novel describes a dream and time travel leading to an encounter between the medieval and modern worlds. Morris describes a positive image of the Middle Ages, seeing it as a golden, if brief, period when peasants were prosperous and happy and guilds protected workers from exploitation.
    It contains the famous passage "... I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name..."
  6. Love Locked Out
    A survey of love, licence and restriction in the Middle Ages

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    A study of the irrepressible sexuality of the Middle Ages, describing the attempts of the church to impose a morality on libidinous medieval society, and shows how they were frustrated at every turn.
  7. A Marxist History of the World part 31: Crusade and Jihad
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    The Crusades lasted 200 years and represented the most extreme expression of the futile violence inherent in western feudalism - a murderous attack on the Middle East by western feudal thugs under the banner of religion.
  8. A Marxist History of the World part 32: Lord, burgher, and peasant in medieval Europe
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Feudalism is often portrayed as a stagnant system where little changed over centuries. The reality was a system that was more dynamic and productive than anything before it argues Neil Faulkner.
  9. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
  10. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization

Experts on Mediaeval & Modern Studies in the Sources Directory

  1. The British Museum
  2. The Hermitage
  3. World Digital Library


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