The Middle Ages

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