Reading Your Way Through History

May 9, 2006

Saint Thomas Becket (d. 1170)

Filed under: L 12th Century — Alicia @ 8:36 pm

Grades 5-8:

If All the Swords in England by Barbara Willard

Grades 9-12:

Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot

Movies:

Becket (1964 – Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud) – teen/adult – recommend previewing by parents first

On the Web:

Eyewitness to History 

Images from Canterbury Cathedral

12th Century AD

Filed under: L 12th Century — Alicia @ 8:31 pm

"The Miracle of Braine, France", EM pgs 19-21 (1153)
The Red Keep by Allen French (1165)
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanore Jewett (1171)
"The Miracle of Ferrara, Italy", EM pgs 22-27 (1171)
"The King and His Hawk", BV (Genghis Kahn)
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, England
"The Miracle of Augsburg, Germany", EM 28-29 (1194)
The Great Heresies by Hilaire Belloc

Composers:

Hildegard Von Bingen (1098-1197)
On Audio CD: An Introduction to Early Music (Naxos)

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