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The Western Experience, 8/e
Mortimer Chambers, University of California - Los Angeles
Barbara Hanawalt, Ohio State University
Theodore Rabb, Princeton University
Isser Woloch, Columbia University
Raymond Grew, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

The Urban Economy and the Consolidation of States

Web Links

Medieval English Towns
(http://www.trytel.com/~tristan/towns/towns.html)

The aim of the site is to provide "historical information about cities and towns in England during the Middle Ages, with particular emphasis on medieval boroughs of East Anglia and on social, political and constitutional history. A selection of primary documents (translated into English) relevant to English urban history is included."
The Mongol Empire, A Historical Website
(http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2532/)

Includes timeline, biography of Genghis Khan, map of Mongol Empire, etc.
The ILTweb Digital Dante Project
(http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/)

The ILTweb Digital Dante Project is A long-term effort of the Institute for Learning Technologies at Columbia University to prototype and develop an online, multimedia Dante-related academic resource combining traditional elements of scholarly research with new communication and presentation possibilities enabled by networked digital technology.
Timeline of Medieval Europe: 500-1509 AD
(http://eawc.evansville.edu/chronology/mepage.htm)

Gender and Family Issues

Medieval Sourcebook: The Goodman of Paris
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/goodman.html)

"The Goodman, or "Menagier" of Paris, was a text written between 1392 and 1394 by an elderly Parisian merchant for his new, and much younger, wife. It is both a cookbook and a statement of the writer's ideal of marriage."
Women in Medieval Guilds
(http://lonestar.texas.net/~rferrell/wimguild.html)

The article explores "some of the roles played by women in the structure and functioning of the collective organization of craftspeople in a representative medieval city."