What are the different types of sources that help us to know about medieval period?

Answer 1

You don't really say what you mean by "olden days" so I'm going to guess you're referring to the eras before modern technology. In the days before electricity or telegraphs, there were a variety of ways to get information:

• From books - and remember that books were hand-produced before they invented the modern printing press!
• From other people - word of mouth was a major source of information, and traveling salesmen were valued as much for the information they shared as for the goods they carried.
• From letters - mail took a lot longer to be delivered when it had to come by horse, but it usually arrived where it was supposed to be ... eventually.
• From newspapers - if the town was lucky enough to have a printing press and a newspaper.

Answer 2

primary and secondary sources

primary consists of newspapers,diaries,maps,archeological sites,monuments,etc.

secondary sources contains newspapers,biographies,magazines and movies etc.

Answer 3

I would go to the Medieval Sourcebook, which is a project at Fordham University, for source material. There is a link below. There is a large amount of source material, and since the Middle Ages lasted a thousand years and represents many cultures across a continent, there are too many source authors or texts to list without having the parameters narrowed.

The reason why some periods are known as "dark" is because they are the ones without large amounts of source material. Even so, the Dark Ages in the West, which is said to have lasted from 476 to 1000 AD, has a fair amount of documentation. English history is covered to a degree by the writings of Bede and Nennius. But there s a problem with both these sources and historians who use them.

Part of the problem is that no one really believes them. They appear to disagree with the archaeological record to some extent, and they often disagree with each other. They place different things at different times, or one will say something is important that the other ignores altogether.

Another part of the problem is that people historically have cited them as original sources without using the material in them or even appearing to have read it. For example Bede makes a series of statements about the history of the Celtic Church, which he considered as a rival to the Church of Rome. The statements are acknowledgements that are not politically motivated, because they would tend to reinforce the position of the rival. Nevertheless, these statements are not used because they disagree with current teachings of history.

The time when Bede's history was put out of fashion is known, but as far as I know the reasons why this was done are not recorded. It is known that the people who changed history had political reasons to do so. My conclusion is that there is a good chance history was rewritten for political purposes. And the bottom line here is that you should believe neither the original sources nor the current histories without checking the facts for yourself.

Answer 4

there are two ways for medieval information archeological and litrerary archeological contains coins tools etc.literary source contains biographies,autobiographiesetc