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Wilberg Presents Medieval England: Daily Life
Medieval Daily Life Links
- BBC. (2021). Everyday life in the Middle Ages. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zm4mn39/revision/1Simple, easy to understand information about life in Medieval Times.
- Boundless. (no date). Ch. 8 The Middle Ages in Europe, Daily Life. In Boundless World History. Lumen Learning. https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldhistory/chapter/daily-medieval-life/Compares and contrasts the lives of different groups of the population during the Middle Ages
- Olson, Dr Katherine. (2020). Plague, famine and sudden death: 10 dangers of the medieval period. https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/why-did-people-die-danger-medieval-period-life-expectancy/It was one of the most exciting, turbulent and transformative eras in history, but the Middle Ages were also fraught with danger. Historian Dr Katharine Olson reveals 10 of the biggest risks people faced.
- Skoda, Hannah. (2020). Medieval misconceptions: 12 myths about life in the Middle Ages – busted. https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/myths-middle-ages-what-life-like-facts/Did everyone die young in medieval times? And were medieval people really as dirty as we think? Historian Hannah Skoda shares a dozen little-known facts about the Middle Ages and busts some of the biggest misconceptions...
- Snell, Melissa. (2019). Work and adolescence in the Middle Ages. https://www.thoughtco.com/medieval-child-teens-at-work-and-play-1789126Explores what teenagers did in the Middle Ages.
