I thought I would share these great sites with all of you interested in the medieval period. This website has some of the best info I've ever found.
Pictures, Ancient texts, the works.

Also it has a course on learning Old English (As in Anglo Saxon, not Shakespeare.) It's great and I'm starting to learn it. (Slowly.)

http://www.the-orb.net/encyclo.html

http://www.regia.org/main.htm
http://www.regia.org/Saxons1.htm

Thank you for sharing these, Joe!

Yes, thanks!

The Orb can take some getting used to, but it's one of my favorite tools! Also, almost any books you can find by Joseph and/or Frances Gies are very handy resources! And should you not be able to find them in your local library, I have several of their books that I can peruse if needed

A course on Old English? I must check this out!

Andrew

Here is the link to the course http://www.the-orb.net/textbooks/oeindex.html

Excellent! *bookmarks* Thanks, Joe!

I just thought I'd post some resources I've gathered over time. I'm always looking for something that covers the 12th century or, even better, 12th century England, but I think all of these do cover a broader geographical area and time period.

Mostly Medieval:
--This has loads of stuff. The "Merkat Cross" has links to books, nonfiction and fiction, (and music CDs!) on Amazon. The "Exploring the Middle Ages" has some cool stuff too--but I wouldn't trust the costumes they link. (There's a reason it says "Medieval THEMED.")
http://www.mostly-medieval.com/

Patterns of Time:
--This is technically a store of sorts, but it has period-accurate costumes, and pictures of them, so it might not be bad as a resource for the looks of things. (And yes, I've bought one of these...yet to get it done.)
http://www.patternsoftime.com/

Gode Cookery:
--This one is mostly just cool. I want to do some of these recipes sometime. It's a bit of ancient, clunky site but it has real medieval/renaissance recipes translated into modern recipes.
http://www.godecookery.com/

Great Courses:
--Really, I suggest this company for ANYTHING. All of the courses we've bought have been superb. I've personally listened to Daileader's High Middle Ages and it was very good--I'm currently doing Dorsey Armstrong's "Medieval World" and I quite like it as well. Unfortunately, this is *not* free. They do have 70% off sales almost constantly, however.
http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/courses.aspx?s=848&ps=918

I also have a pile of books, but mainly I suggest Names Through the Ages by Teresa Norman (for naming characters in *most* time periods and in selected geographical places) and England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings (1075-1225) by Robert Bartlett, for the serious Anglo-Norman enthusiast like me (the book is huge).

Awesome, thank you!

Thank you so much, Nairam! Very helpful.

These are some great resources.

Wow, more awesome resources! *bookmarks them all* So what do the Great Courses cover?

Andrew

The medieval ones or in general?

The medieval ones I linked to, so you can read course descriptions there.

But in general, they have history, mathematics, philosophy, religion, literature, economics, what they call "better living" (I haven't seen any of those), fine arts and music...a bunch of stuff. A couple hundred courses, maybe three hundred. I've mostly seen the history and music courses, but we have an economics course that's good and two good Shakespeare courses (judging by what my sister thinks of them).

The way they pick their courses is by a process to find the best teachers in America, basically, and have them record lectures so anybody can listen to them. This process of looking for good teachers is what makes them all (that I've seen) so fascinating. Our bookshelf of Great Courses is a prized possession. I even bought the two medieval history ones myself.

Ah, I was thinking of the courses in general. That is a really interesting process for getting their lessons. I'm going to have to check them out in some more detail =)

Andrew

I recommend anything by Joseph and/or Frances Gies. They're a husband-wife team of historians who really do a good job of presenting their information on a popular level that's easy to understand.
Some specific ones that I have are:
Daily Life in a Medieval Village,
Daily Life in a Medieval Town,
Daily Life in a Medieval Castle,
Women in the Middle Ages,
and Marriage and Family in the Middle Ages.
I haven't read all of these (in fact, the only one I've even gotten part-way through is Daily Life in Middle Ages, I haven't touched the others yet. I plan on remedying that in the hopefully near future, and I'll let you know more about them once I do.

Since we are on the topic of Medieval History, I was wondering if anyone has any good sites for Irish Medieval History (preferably pertaining to the 1200's-1400's AD)? I am currently writing a story that is partly set in Ireland, and so far my research has only scratched the surface (clothing mostly). Any help someone could give would be most appreciated!
-Lass

Oh, wow. This is an amazing list of resources... thank you Nairam and Bard I'm writing a medieval novel so these will be great

As I am delving into the history of England, I found this site (http://www.britainexpress.com/History/m ... _index.htm) that might interest some of you history gurus. Not completely sure if it all is historically correct, but looks pretty good and legit!

Very informative page-and thanks for posting the link to the Old English lesson course!!

Usborne Books of Castles: Internet Linkes

This was a really, really good book. Only about castles, obviously, but was very informative.