Castles - Plague - Witch Trials - the Church - Royalty

Updated October 3, 2003

CASTLES & PALACES
Castles on the Web 
  Castle Tours will take you to several different castles including Windsor and even Buckingham Palace!
GLOSSARY: Castle Terms 
GLOSSARY: Castle and Siege Terminology
GLOSSARY: Castle Terminology 
  MAP: Castle Labeled Components 
MAP: Castles in Wales
Castle Learning Center - Britain 
World Castle Archive 
  Castle Search: Links to castle pages from around the world.  
Life in a Medieval Castle
  Home Sweet Castle - Suite101.com
  Castles of the World
Castles of Britain 
  British Castles 
  Fortifications/Castles of Kent, England and Northern France 
  Castles and Ancient Monuments in Great Britain 
  Castles, Palaces & Stately Homes of Britain 
The Tower of London 
  Tower of London -- Britain's Crown Jewels -- Virtual Tour
  Tower of London:History 
Tyburn Tree Homepage: Public Execution in Early Modern England 
Castles Abbeys and Medieval Buildings 
   Hampton Court History
  The Castles of Wales
A Virtual Tour of Raglan Castle
  Castles of France 
Versailles 
Chateau de Versailles 
  Vir-Ren Castle
Roads to Ruins, the Castles of Germany 
The Castle Neuschwanstein in Schwangau 
Neuschwanstein - HomePage
Castles of Japan
Castles and Palaces of Poland 
Palaces of Petersburg - Welcome Page 
   Castles with Ghosts 
   Gargoyle Home Page 
  Castles on the Web: Castles for Kids
Ghosts in the Castle - For Kids - from nationalgeographic.com 
  Ian's Land of Castles 
Build a Medieval Castle
   Life in the Middle Ages 
Palaces and Great Homes
  Medieval Fortifications 
Castles on the Web: Travel and Accommodations
Castle Greetings - Castle related postcards!  

PLAGUE - THE BLACK DEATH
Did you know? The children's nursery rhyme 'Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses' actually refers to the Black Death which killed about 30 million people in the fourteenth-century.  QUESTION ABOUT TITLE: 'Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses' is the original British title of the rhyme.  In the 19th century Americanized version, the title changed to 'Ring-Around-the-Rosie.'  The American version also uses the line "ashes, ashes, we all fall down," while the original British version uses the line, "a-tishoo, a-tishoo, we all fall down."  "A-tishoo" refers to the uncontrollable cough & sneezing that were symptoms of the pneumonic plague, the most deadly strain.  Both titles are correct and refer to the plague.  However, Urban Legends says all of the above is myth.  For an alternative view on the origins of "Ring-Around-the-Rosie/"Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses," check out the last link in this section on the plague. 
THE PLAGUE
The Great Plague devastates Constantinople 541 - 543 C.E. 
Plague
Plagues since the Roman Empire
AVOID IT LIKE THE PLAGUE!!! 
  BBC Medicine Through Time - Progress in the understanding of the plague? 
  The Black Plague - (1348-1350) 
  The Black Death, 1348  
  Transatlantic Traffic: Plague
Conditions in cities during outbreaks of plagues 
Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe 
Plague, Peste - Beyond the French Riviera 
The Black Death: Bubonic Plague 
The Plague in England, 1539 - 1640 
The Black Death in Derby(England) 
Black Death Spreads 
The Plague: Will it Ever End 
Area graph - monthly death rates - in England
Average monthly burials 1539-1640 - in England
The Pestilence Tyme 
Beyond the Pale: Jewish Expulsions and the Black Death
Plague
   The Black Death and the Medieval Family - Suite101.com 
  The Great Famine and the Black Death 
   Great Plagues of the Elizabethan Period
The Medieval Miracles of Healing -- Medical Science.
History of Blood-letting 
The Ancient Art of Bloodletting 
The Art and History of Bloodletting 
   Waterborne disease: Plagues & Epidemics
  A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe 
  Medieval Macabre
  Urban Legends Reference Pages: Language (Ring Around the Rosie)  
Did you know? Eau de Cologne was originally marketed as a way of protecting yourself against the plague.