|
Student knights 'joust' having fun
|
Swords crashed, shields flew, and crowds cheered as students at
Children First School fought to unseat each other during Friday's
joust on the courtyard.
The girls learned why women weren't participants in active sports
during the Middle Ages - it isn't easy to run in a long skirt. And
the boys discovered that even real men wore tights.
Friday's activities, which included the jousts, races in the
courtyard and a feast in the dining hall, were the culmination of a
weeklong summer ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
|
The strange allure of the Middle Ages
The Independent - London
; THE Middle Ages are back. With their stained-glass windows, haloed saints, hooded pilgrims, illuminated manuscripts and polished Excaliburs, they have never looked so chic. After the books and films comes Strange Landscape, a five-part series which began last night on BBC2 and goes out at peak
|
 "Odessa American (Odessa, TX)")
|
Noel students study the Middle Ages: Party culminates yearlong look at period.
Odessa American (Odessa, TX)
; ... instead of working all day, Hope said. Copyright (c) 2006, Odessa American, Texas Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News. For information on republishing this content, contact us at (800) 661-2511 (U.S.), (213) 237-4914 (worldwide), fax (213) 237-65 ...
|
|
The Christian World of the Middle Ages
The Catholic Historical Review
; The Christian World of the Middle Ages. By Bernard Hamilton. (Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: Sutton Publishing. 2003. Pp. xxvii, 256. $29.95.) This book attempts to fill a gap in the knowledge of students-and teachers-whose training has given them a Eurocentric view of medieval Christianity, by
|
|
Heretics and Scholars in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1200.(Review)
History: Review of New Books
; Fichtenau, Heinrich Heretics and Scholars in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1200 Trans. Denise A. Kaiser University Park: University of Pennsylvania Press 403 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0-271-01765-1 Publication Date: June 1998 This is a translation of a volume originally published as Ketzer und Professoren:
|
|
Tall stories: What's so sexy about the 13th century? Twenty years ago The Name of the Rose helped define the post-modern world. And those pesky Middle Ages are still with us. DJ Taylor on why we can't let go of our murky, unknowable past
The Independent on Sunday
; It would take a fairly radical 1980s fiction "best of" compiler to leave out Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. A dense and abstrusely conceived medieval mystery, long- burnished in the imagination of an Italian professor of semiotics, it notched up worldwide sales of over 10 million copies, the
|
|
If you lived in the middle ages.(WORLD HISTORY)
Junior Scholastic
; ... clothing), then present it by designing posters, re-creating an outfit, role-playing a situation, or writing an essay, skit, or news report. STANDARDS SOCIAL STUDIES, GRADES 5-8 * Production, distribution, and consumption: Now labor, goods, and services were ...
|
|
Adrift in history: Author covers no new ground on Middle Ages
Chicago Sun-Times
; ... history opening with Alexander and the fourth century, B.C., is a tip-off that Cahill takes forever to make one. Susan Hogan/Albach has written about religion for 17 years for newspapers such as the Dallas Morning News and the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
|
 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
|
AT 10, MIDDLE AGES HAS REASON TO CELEBRATE.(CNY)(Column)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
; Byline: DON CAZENTRE STAFF WRITER The Anheuser-Busch plant in Lysander, one of 12 A-B breweries in the United States, has a capacity to produce 8.6 million barrels a year. That works out to 17.2 million kegs; 117.8 million cases or 471.3 million six-packs. Middle Ages Brewing Co. rolled out its
|
 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
|
Weekend: Books: Inspiring window into the Middle Ages; Medieval Panorama. Edited by Robert Bartlett (Thames & Hudson. pounds 29.95). Reviewed by Richard Edmonds.(Features)
The Birmingham Post (England)
; ... meanspirited when you find him concluding gardening is all about lifestyles, money and class. Perhaps someone should break the news there are one or two people around who can be at peace with the world creating a garden without needing an ulterior motive. CAPTION ...
|
|
In between.(Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe)(Book review)
Commonweal
; Mysteries of the Middle Ages The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe Thomas Cahill Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $32.50, 368 pp. Of the Middle Ages, medieval men and women knew nothing. Of the notion so familiar to us, the existence of a sort of middling period of
|