Week 1
Tuesday:
Introduction to course
Videos:
Medieval castle images, with medieval music (9:39 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioGvEA_KNc4
Horrible Histories: Norman Family Tree Song:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2lwjyl
(alternative URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJAY2QNtGug)
Secrets of the Castle: Why Build a Castle? (Episode 1, 58 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydoRAbpWfCU
Topic I:
Map of medieval England and Wales
htpps://www.heritage-history.com/ssl/cds/british_middle_ages/maps/philips/phil034.jpg
Interactive map of castles in England
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/CastlesinEngland/
Map of Britain, c. 1250, by Matthew Paris, monk of St Albans (d. 1259)
https://i2.wp.com/www.medievalists.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/matthewparismapp1.jpg?w=1220
Information about Matthew Paris and his map
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/mapsviews/mapgb/
Topic II:
Beaumaris Castle: Identify military and domestic design features of this castle
Photographs of Beaumaris Castle
Aerial photograph of Beaumaris Castle
Plan of Beaumaris Castle
Reconstruction drawing of Beaumaris Castle
Plan of Beaumaris Castle and town, by John Speed (1610)
Wikipedia article on Beaumaris Castle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaumaris_Castle
Online bibliography of Beaumaris Castle (at end of brief history)
http://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/Welshsites/1.html
Topic III:
J. H. Robinson, “Why Study History through Primary Sources?”
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/robinson-sources.asp
Of the materials above:
Which are primary sources?
Which are secondary sources?
Are there any scholarly secondary sources? How can you tell?
What sort of source is:
a map?
a photograph?
a bibliography?
a dictionary?
Thursday
Where were the castles of medieval England? (Assignment 1)
Castles were major building projects, and required lots of land, labor, and wealth to build.
Questions:
- WHO built castles? (List at least 3 kinds of people – not the construction workers, but the owners of the castles)
- WHY build a castle? (List at least 3 important reasons for building a castle)
- WHERE were castles built? (List at least 3 major criteria for choosing a site)
MAPS:
Relief map of British Isles
https://nimax-img.de/Produktbilder/zoom/52366_1/Georelief-Great-Britain-3D-relief-map.jpg
Major rivers of England
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b4/ba/a5/b4baa5194f4d7bce45a47d16513bd137.jpg
Major roads of medieval England and Wales
https://erenow.com/postclassical/medieval-britain-a-very-short-introduction/medieval-britain-a-very-short-introduction.files/image016.jpg
Historic counties of England, Wales, and Scotland
http://jonathan.rawle.org/hyperpedia/counties/images/bigold.gif
Interactive county/castle map of England (click on county to see castles in that county)
http://www.ecastles.co.uk/ukmap.html