Crash Summer Course in Medieval Studies

Since it looks like Becky and I are going to be participating in Aquinas Learning next year and since it will be on Cycle 3, which is Modern history, I thought we might prepare by doing a sort of study of the Middle Ages/Renaissance this summer. (We've been moving slowly through the Romans and frankly, everyone here has lost interest so I'm skipping ahead!). Here's my plan:

• Listen to the audio of Story of the World Volume II  - maybe at lunch time?
• Read aloud The Hobbit and maybe listen to the audio of another book, perhaps Door in the Wall while driving down to the Outer Banks.
• Watch lots of movies on this time period.  Here's my list so far, culled from The Well Trained Mind Board as well as other sites.

Pendragon - Sword of his Father (Christian movie made by homeschoolers!)

The Secret of Kells - we watched this several times this past winter and really loved it.

David McCauley movies Cathedral and Castle

King Arthur - not sure which movie yet.

The Flowers of St. Francis - wonderful Italian movie made by one of those famous Italian directors

Henry V  - Kenneth Branaugh

Joan of Arc (1928)

Robin Hood - Errol Flynn

Ivanhoe - the one with Anthony Andrews

The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Charles Laughton

El Cid 

Terry Jones' Medieval Lives

A Man for All Seasons - Paul Scofield

Dear America - The Royal Diaries - netflix

Monsieur Vincent - great French movie about St. Vincent de Paul

The Agony and the Ecstasy- Charleton Heston

(This might not be in quite chronological order, but I tried!)

Maybe do a couple of fun things like build a trebuchet and maybe do some brass rubbings at the National Cathedral.  Maybe also visit the Franciscan Monastery again.