Research Options and Links
Download assignment sheet: The Life of Peasants
Download assignment sheet: The Norman Conquest
Download assignment sheet: The Hundred Years War
How to set out the primary source question | A breakdown of each question below
The Life of Peasants
- Daily Medieval Life
- Variations in peasants’ status
- A film based on the Luttrell Psalter | Details about how the film was made
Primary Sources:
Dialogue between Master and Disciple, c.1000 | The Crede of Piers the Ploughman | Luttrell Psalter, British Library | Digital version of the Luttrell Psalter | Sample picture with a description from the Luttrell Psalter
The Norman Conquest
Primary Sources:
William of Poitiers 1 | William of Poitiers 2 | Orderic Vitalis 1 | Orderic Vitalis 2 | Anglo-Saxon Chronicle | Several varied primary sources | William I’s final confession
Hundred Years War
- Assignment Sheet Download: PDF
- BBC Website – a comprehensive account
- History.com – a shorter summary
- History.com – Joan of Arc
- Battle tactics during the Hundred Years War
- Battle of Crécy, 1346
- The impact of the longbow at the Battle of Crécy
- Joan of Arc
Primary Sources:
Online Froissart | Froissart on the Battle of Crécy | Froissart on the Battle of Poitiers | The Trials of Joan of Arc | Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Battle of Agincourt, 1415