Medieval Cyberspace

Medieval Fantasy in Cyberspace

In an ancient, rotting dungeon, the group edges forward toward the next room. The leader, speaking into a microphone attached to his PC, tells the other members to be careful. His character then walks to a switch and activates it, opening the door to the next room. Without warning, a group of skeletal warriors filters into the room. The party falls back, organizing itself amid the chaos. The warriors fight; the healers take care of the injured and other magic classes target enemies with spells from a safe distance.Welcome to Dungeons and Dragons Online: Stormreach, an MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) adaptation of the classic Dungeons and Dragons tabletop game series. Developed by Turbine (http://www.turbine.com) and published by Atari (http://www.atari.com), the game places the player in the Dungeons and Dragons universe, complete with the characters, quests, levels, enemies, items and treasure found in the tabletop game. go to the site

Medieval Cyberspaces

Medieval Cyberspaces

Teachers are always looking for places for their students to explore. Here are a few places found in Medieval Cyberspace. If you find something interesting at one of the sights let us know and we will included it our upcomming medieval treasure hunt.
http://members.aol.com/tmatrust/places.html

Medieval Landscapes

Medieval Landscapes

Mapping the Medieval Urban Landscape” is a two-year research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The project was completed at the end of May 2005.The project came about to try to further our understanding of the processes that created urban landscapes in the middle ages. Conventional historical records do not reveal much about this, and so it is necessary to look at the plans of the towns themselves to map out how they came into being. This work is important as the middle ages is the key period of European urbanisation, when many towns and cities were established and prospered. Indeed, much of the urban network and heritage of Europe today is the result of our medieval ancestors. To recognise and appreciate this legacy we need to study these towns and cities (Click here for more on the project).

The project has explored the design and planning of towns in the middle ages. This required careful study of the surviving layouts of medieval towns, looking in particular at their shape and form, and to this end the project focused on new towns founded by King Edward I in the late 1200s. Twelve of Edward’s towns in Wales were selected for close scrutiny, and one in England. (Click here for more information on the study towns).
http://www.qub.ac.uk/urban_mapping/

Medieval Village

Welcome to the web site of The Crossroads Project, an initiative to build an ecologically sustainable community, with excellent facilities for medieval activities.
Our goal is to build a medieval village on our property at Yass, New South Wales, Australia. We wish to foster traditional crafts and skills, establish partnerships with a variety of national organisations for pre-industrial crafts, for instance in blacksmithing and embroidery.
Crossroads will provide craft workshops and camping facilities for community groups, artisans and the public.
http://www.crossroads.org.au/

Medieval Christ

Medicina Medievale

Medicina Medievale

Parlando del mondo dell'uomo medievale, ci riferiamo in primo luogo alla condizione dell'uomo sofferente, che non è possibile vedere senza considerare la visione del mondo che sta alle sue spalle. La medicina medievale non deve essere intesa nella moderna accezione del termine, ma non va neanche confusa con le tecniche empiriche di una medicina popolare antiquata: ci troviamo infatti di fronte a un sistema organico che abbraccia tutti gli aspetti dell'uomo sano, malato e da guarire.
La medicina non era molto sviluppata, infatti fino al 1200 i medici scarseggiavano e le terapie non erano sufficientemente efficaci.
Questa scienza continuava ad essere infatti spaccata in due parti, da una parte, la medicina teorica che era profondamente legata alla filosofia, dall’altra la chirurgia che era considerata né più né meno una mansione da tecnici e non da scienziati. I progressi inizieranno con l’applicazione della meccanica alla biologia, con la conseguente nascita della Iatromeccanica, ed una più precisa conoscenza del corpo umano.
http://www.bluedragon.it/medioevo/medicina.htm

Medieval clothing

Medieval clothing

The few roads that still existed were in a bad state, bridges were scarce, and brigands were common. For this reason during the Dark Ages, which lasted until about 1000 A.D., populations were tightly bound to the land surrounding the feudal lord's castle. People moved about only when there were festivals in other cities. These were the only occasions on which people could buy or look at different goods and have a chance to sell their own food or objects and fabrics made for sale. Fear controlled people�s lives and induced them to ask for protection from powerful warriors who had constructed well-defended castles, or from monasteries, which did not have soldiers but did have thick walls to hide behind. Life was hard, and , people thought little of clothing. Clothes were often made at home and were often rough and shapeless. Trousers, tunics and shawls were used to keep away the cold. The shawls were made of wool or fur and put over the shoulder. Most Europeans were dressed like today�s Benedictine monks, except for men�s trousers. Shoes were leather wrapped around the foot. Colors were plain; they were shades of gray, brown, dark blue and red. Conical hats were commonly worn.
This was a pyramidal society because the classes of people were in a shape of a pyramid.. with the kings and queens at the top of the pyramid (and were few in number) down to the peasants (who were many in number). In the middle were feudal lords, clerics, and others, such as vassals.

http://www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/ma/1adele.htm

Chansons medievaux

Chansons medievaux

Recherches:
The following is an html version of my PhD dissertation, submitted as part of the requirements for the doctorate in systematic musicology from the Faculty of Music at the University of Western Ontario. Apart from minor corrections and changes in formatting it is unchanged and unrevised, so the research and bibliography are current only to 1994. The music examples were originally drawn by hand, and in order to make them available I scanned the printed sheets and converted them to gif images, which are viewable by clicking the appropriate links, either through the table of contents below, or from the main text.

The aim of this study is to lay the groundwork for an eventual codification of musical form and style in the troubadour songs. To that end, it concentrates on two of the broadest musical parameters, form and tonal structure. A new catalogue of all attributed songs is provided with the study, which is intended to remedy the deficiencies of Gennrich's, the only complete one available until now. It is based on descriptive and logical, rather than historical, principles, and the graphing procedure employed is designed to provide more information than the standard ones, by showing connections at the sub-phrase level. The songs are grouped into five large categories, based on the kind of phrase repetition found in their musical forms, and these categories then serve as a tool in the detailed examination of the nature and role of musical form in the repertoire. It is found that the troubadours' acknowledged fascination with structure for its own sake, as evidenced in their versification, can also be seen in their musical forms. Indeed, there is an intimate and dynamic interaction between the two kinds of form, which can serve as a paradigm for the understanding of music/text relations in the canso. The analysis of selected examples demonstrates some of the many ways in which the troubadours created subtle and finely articulated formal designs in their music; this contradicts the view that they were unskilled as composers and relied only on simple standard formulas for their music.v
http://www.troubadours.vaninpiano.com/bibliography.htm