The Middle Ages
Published on 31. October 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-1-898392-21-7 (ISBN)
Description
For the less academic pupil, this series provides a resource for the delivery of the curriculum in a colourful way, enticing children to enjoy learning. This book covers the Middle Ages for KS3 History.
High-quality full colour resource organised into topics with key words pinpointed, activities throughout and supported by three accompanying workbooks.
Contents:
Welcome to the Middle Ages!
The Norman Conquest
1 Who were the Normans?
2 Where did they come from?
3 The fight for the English throne
4 Rivals do battle
5 Saxon soldiers
6 Norman soldiers
7 The story told by the Bayeux Tapestry
8 Two accounts of the Battle of Hastings
9 How did Harold die?
10 Taking control
11 The Feudal System
12 The Domesday Book
13 Castles
14 Stone castles
15 Castles under attack
Medieval Society
16 How a Norman person was named
17 Norman food
18 Norman clothes
19 Norman games and pastimes
20 Norman justice
21 The poor
22 The rich
23 Town life
24 Country life
25 Convents and monasteries
26 Holy men
27 Holy women
28 Women in medieval times
29 Getting married
30 Disease and death
31 The Black Death
32 Knights and Crusades
Ireland and the Normans
33 Ireland before the Normans
34 Dermot MacMurrough
35 Dermot and the Normans
36 A wedding in Waterford
37 Why the Normans came
38 The Normans invade
39 The conquest of Ulster
40 De Courcy: the Norman who wanted to be king
41 De Courcy's legacy lives on
42 Carrickfergus Castle
43 Carrickfergus Castle - the siege
44 Carrickfergus Castle - change over time
45 Norman soldiers and Irish soldiers
46 The Greencastle skeleton
Timeline
High-quality full colour resource organised into topics with key words pinpointed, activities throughout and supported by three accompanying workbooks.
Contents:
Welcome to the Middle Ages!
The Norman Conquest
1 Who were the Normans?
2 Where did they come from?
3 The fight for the English throne
4 Rivals do battle
5 Saxon soldiers
6 Norman soldiers
7 The story told by the Bayeux Tapestry
8 Two accounts of the Battle of Hastings
9 How did Harold die?
10 Taking control
11 The Feudal System
12 The Domesday Book
13 Castles
14 Stone castles
15 Castles under attack
Medieval Society
16 How a Norman person was named
17 Norman food
18 Norman clothes
19 Norman games and pastimes
20 Norman justice
21 The poor
22 The rich
23 Town life
24 Country life
25 Convents and monasteries
26 Holy men
27 Holy women
28 Women in medieval times
29 Getting married
30 Disease and death
31 The Black Death
32 Knights and Crusades
Ireland and the Normans
33 Ireland before the Normans
34 Dermot MacMurrough
35 Dermot and the Normans
36 A wedding in Waterford
37 Why the Normans came
38 The Normans invade
39 The conquest of Ulster
40 De Courcy: the Norman who wanted to be king
41 De Courcy's legacy lives on
42 Carrickfergus Castle
43 Carrickfergus Castle - the siege
44 Carrickfergus Castle - change over time
45 Norman soldiers and Irish soldiers
46 The Greencastle skeleton
Timeline
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Colourpoint Creative Ltd
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Illustrations
Col.ill.
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 265 mm
Weight
115 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-898392-21-7 (9781898392217)
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Persons
Sheila Turner Johnston was born in west Cork, Ireland and spent her childhood in different counties the length and breadth of the country, as the family moved wherever her father's job took him. She attended Queen's University, Belfast, and apart from managing to graduate against all her expectations, one of her best experiences was reading her poetry to an audience that included Seamus Heaney.
Sheila has won prizes for both fiction and non-fiction, and has written many articles for both local and national publications. She and her husband Norman founded the publishing stable Colourpoint Creative Ltd, which is now owned and managed by their two sons.
For more information visit her website at: https://www.sheilaturnerjohnston.com
By Sheila Turner Johnston
Healer of My Heart Colourpoint 2020
Maker of Footprints Colourpoint 2019
The Harper of the Only God Selected poems of Alice Milligan (as editor)
Alice, a biography of Alice Milligan Colourpoint 1994
The Middle Ages (with Kathleen Gormley) Colourpoint 1997
History In Close-Up: the Twentieth Century Colourpoint Educational 2010
History In Close-Up: the Medieval World (with Norman Johnston) Colourpoint Educational 2011
Sheila has won prizes for both fiction and non-fiction, and has written many articles for both local and national publications. She and her husband Norman founded the publishing stable Colourpoint Creative Ltd, which is now owned and managed by their two sons.
For more information visit her website at: https://www.sheilaturnerjohnston.com
By Sheila Turner Johnston
Healer of My Heart Colourpoint 2020
Maker of Footprints Colourpoint 2019
The Harper of the Only God Selected poems of Alice Milligan (as editor)
Alice, a biography of Alice Milligan Colourpoint 1994
The Middle Ages (with Kathleen Gormley) Colourpoint 1997
History In Close-Up: the Twentieth Century Colourpoint Educational 2010
History In Close-Up: the Medieval World (with Norman Johnston) Colourpoint Educational 2011
Content
Contents:
Welcome to the Middle Ages!
The Norman Conquest
1 Who were the Normans?
2 Where did they come from?
3 The fight for the English throne
4 Rivals do battle
5 Saxon soldiers
6 Norman soldiers
7 The story told by the Bayeux Tapestry
8 Two accounts of the Battle of Hastings
9 How did Harold die?
10 Taking control
11 The Feudal System
12 The Domesday Book
13 Castles
14 Stone castles
15 Castles under attack
Medieval Society
16 How a Norman person was named
17 Norman food
18 Norman clothes
19 Norman games and pastimes
20 Norman justice
21 The poor
22 The rich
23 Town life
24 Country life
25 Convents and monasteries
26 Holy men
27 Holy women
28 Women in medieval times
29 Getting married
30 Disease and death
31 The Black Death
32 Knights and Crusades
Ireland and the Normans
33 Ireland before the Normans
34 Dermot MacMurrough
35 Dermot and the Normans
36 A wedding in Waterford
37 Why the Normans came
38 The Normans invade
39 The conquest of Ulster
40 De Courcy: the Norman who wanted to be king
41 De Courcy's legacy lives on
42 Carrickfergus Castle
43 Carrickfergus Castle - the siege
44 Carrickfergus Castle - change over time
45 Norman soldiers and Irish soldiers
46 The Greencastle skeleton
Timeline
Welcome to the Middle Ages!
The Norman Conquest
1 Who were the Normans?
2 Where did they come from?
3 The fight for the English throne
4 Rivals do battle
5 Saxon soldiers
6 Norman soldiers
7 The story told by the Bayeux Tapestry
8 Two accounts of the Battle of Hastings
9 How did Harold die?
10 Taking control
11 The Feudal System
12 The Domesday Book
13 Castles
14 Stone castles
15 Castles under attack
Medieval Society
16 How a Norman person was named
17 Norman food
18 Norman clothes
19 Norman games and pastimes
20 Norman justice
21 The poor
22 The rich
23 Town life
24 Country life
25 Convents and monasteries
26 Holy men
27 Holy women
28 Women in medieval times
29 Getting married
30 Disease and death
31 The Black Death
32 Knights and Crusades
Ireland and the Normans
33 Ireland before the Normans
34 Dermot MacMurrough
35 Dermot and the Normans
36 A wedding in Waterford
37 Why the Normans came
38 The Normans invade
39 The conquest of Ulster
40 De Courcy: the Norman who wanted to be king
41 De Courcy's legacy lives on
42 Carrickfergus Castle
43 Carrickfergus Castle - the siege
44 Carrickfergus Castle - change over time
45 Norman soldiers and Irish soldiers
46 The Greencastle skeleton
Timeline