Make your own History thread (monday) History in your game.

[alsih2o]

I will be out of town for a few days starting in a few hours so there will be no "(monday) History in your game" thread this coming Monday.

In lieu of my regular thread I ask that all of oyu who read regularly please post a link here, even if it is just one. Maybe something you found that interests you, something game-related, something odd or filled with pretty pictures?

And why wait till Monday?

 

[alsih2o]

O.K., I will start-

A short history of Jews in Venice, including the possible origin of the word "ghetto"- http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/vjw/Venice.html

 

[jgbrowning]

Cool site of historic maps... http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/

And a great site for medieval stuff.... http://www.netserf.org/


joe b.

 

[Wombat]

For anyone with a taste for the Victorian (I know this is more limited on this board, but might be good for Cthulhu fans...), I present City of Shadows

http://cityofshadows.stegenga.net/

Views of the creepier side of London

And on the more Medieval front, I offer the One Stop Shopping locale for all things Arthurian, the Rochester Camelot Project:

http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/cphome.stm

Have a great vacation, alsih2o!

 

[JoeBlank]

I have a fear that some of the links I like may be from previous History threads. Still, can't hurt to see them again:

http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic2/quetiap_ad.htm
Marriage during the middle ages

To follow Clay's link:
http://www.orthohelp.com/geneal/seph_who.htm
On the Jews of medieval Spain (cited as a reference for The Lions of Al-Rassan, by Guy Gavriel Kay)

And some other cool links from Kay's website:
http://www.brightweavings.com/links/index.htm

 

[Ferret]

Lots of useful but maybe not RPG orientated links:

Latin-english-latin

http://www.sunsite.ubc.ca/LatinDictionary/

Not complete but list many animals

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html

Armors/armouree

http://www.eeldrytch.com/index.html

http://www.wolfgaardarmory.com/main.html

Map of faerun (text in french)

http://www.chez.com/bossk/map/feerun.htm

Gnomish (dead link, may come back)

http://www.cledha.freeserve.co.uk/gnomes/dictionary.htm

Animal plurals

http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Childrens/FactSheets/AnimalGroupNames.asp

List of fantasy race. Not comprehensive but good, also links to other similiar things below

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/List of species in fantasy fiction

 

[Greylock]

I haven't been around long enough to know what's been posted already, so anything I contribute may be old news.

So I'll toss out one of my faves anyways...

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

It's an omnibus site, but one of the better ones. I've been visiting it for a long, long time.

HTH

 

[Buttercup]

Here are a few odds & ends I've got bookmarked.


An overview of cooking techniques and equipment in late medieval and renaissance kitchens.
http://www.geocities.com/katjaorlova/MedievalKitchenEquipment.htm

Medieval cheesemaking.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/cheese-msg.html

A page of links about medieval and renaissance cookery.
http://www.godecookery.com/gdlinks/mhlink09.htm

Medieval Food
http://www.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/medieval/medieval_food.html

A PDF entitled Medieval Culinary Herbs & Spices
http://www.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/medieval/medieval_food.html