Even the best schools in America tend to give short shrift to the medieval period. You get a bit about the difficulties of a peasant, maybe something on the Manor and castles and pow, Columbus discovered America. A thousand years covered in a week if you are lucky. Hollywood made things worse.
I read a ton of books, most of them dry or outright terrible. Then the internet came around and it was full of information. Some of the information was conflicting, some was amazing (such as the British History Online), the internet is hit and miss that way. As I come across bits & pieces of research I expect to post it on the blog and correct the posts as necessary if I find something was wrong.
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