Useful Links

 

 

The Writing Center at West Georgia www.westga.edu/~writing/

 

The Middle Ages

The Bayeux Tapestry
 
www.bayeuxtapestry.org.uk

www.hastings1066.com

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/bayeux.htm

The Tower of London http://www.camelotintl.com/tower_site/index.html

 

Notre Dame http://www.paris.org/Monuments/NDame/

http://www2.art.utah.edu/cathedral/paris.html

http://www.notredamedeparis.fr/-Francais- (If you do a Yahoo search for this cathedral, you have the option of translating this page to English.  Check it out!)

Questions:

The Bayeux Tapestry

1)  Who commissioned the Bayeux Tapestry and when?

2)  Tell me about the size of the tapestry.

3)  Name and describe five of the scenes depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry.

The Tower of London

4)  Examine four of the towers within the Tower of London.  What are their names, when were they built, and what were their functions?

5)  Which tower currently stands on the spot of the tower originally built by William the Conquerer?  When was the current tower built, and for what has it been used?

6)  Tell me about the Chapel of St. John the Evangelist.

Notre Dame

7)  When was the first church built on this site?

8)  In what year did construction begin on the current cathedral?

9)  Tell me about the famous Rose Window?

10)  Which monarch is crowned in Notre Dame?

 

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
Nice website for Modern editions of the tales.
http://www.canterburytales.org/