- Albigensian Crusade, 405, 444-45, 450, 456, 460, 466, 483, 49i, 495, 570
- Albigensians, see Cathan
- Alboin, King of the Lombards, 156
- Alchemy, 182-83, 388
- Alcibiades, 70
- Alcohol, 182; and see Drinking
- Alcuin, 211, 373
- Aldermen, 362; and see Ealdorman
- Alencon, House of, 625-26
- Aleppo, 344
- Alessandria, 353
- Alexander the Great, 22-23, 26, 40, 53, 190, 211, 407, 591
- Alexander Severus, Roman Emperor, 68-69
- Alexander II, Pope, 287
- Alexander III, 297, 352-53
- Alexander V, 567
- Alexander VI, 634-36
- Alexandria, 22, 184, 343, 390, 608; Patriarch of, 102-03, 106-08, 156, 177, 190
- Alexandrines, 407
- Alexius Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor, 310-11, 315-16, 343
- Alfonse, brother of Louis IX of France, 497
- Alfonso-VI, King of Castile and Leon, 302-03
- Alfonso X, the Wise, King of Castile, 384, 386, 410, 537
- Alfonso I, King of Aragon, Sicily, Naples, 586, 593
- Alfonso II, King of Naples, 635
- Alfred the Great, King of England, 220-23, 275, 399, 474
- Algebra, 386
- Algeria, 180
- Allegory and allegorical interpretation, 113, 154, 171, 408, 411-12
- Alliterative verse, 400, 402; examples of, 516-17, 562-65
- Almansor, 188-89
- Almeria, 184, 186, 188-89, 304
- Almohades, 302, 304, 309, 328, 453
- Almoravides, 302-04, 309, 312
- Alphabet, 21, 55, 183, 386
- Alpine race, 10, 139
- Alps, 11-12, 17, 23, 42, 80, 88-90, 151, 197, 213, 227, 247, 266, 271, 290, 335, 342, 355, 357, 369, 374, 378, 389, 398, 431, 492, 539, 553, 601,
- 617, 634, 638; passes of, 350, 353, 468, 583
- Alsace, 88-90, 537, 621
- Alsace-Lorraine, 260
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- Altaians, 55, 548
- Amain 313, 341, 343
- Amandus, St., 167
- Ambrose, St., 77, 113, 157
- Ambulances, 632
- Ambulatory, 419, 431, 433
- America and Americans, 8, 16, 358, 391, 612
- America, discovery of, 15, 223, 587, 610, 632
- Amiens, 366, 510, 524; cathedral of, 430; 432
- Ammianus Marcellinus, 66, 107
- Amphitheaters, 2, 32-33, 46, 126, 435
- Amurath, see Murad
- Amusements, of ancient cities, 25, 27, 33; of Roman Empire, 37-38, 66; of early Germans, 43; during barbarian invasions, 92-94; early medieval, 126; Mohammedan, 184, 320; feudal, 252-53; of students, 392; folk-festivals, 409; of Edward II, 485; Hanse games, 543; fools and jesters, 562; of Frederick III, 614; Burgundian, 617-18, 639; and see Hunting
- Anagni, 505
- Anastasrus, Byzantine Emperor, 128, 132
- Anathemas, 194-95, 438, 441; and see Excommunication
- Ancestor worship, 24, 45
- Ancona, March of, 461-62, 464
- Andalusia, 188
- Angelico, Fra, 605
- Angers, 274, 376
- Angevin, see Anjou, House of
- Angles, 85, 118, 166, 220-21, 233
- Anglo-Norman monarchy, 226, 277, 474
- Anglo-Saxons, 122, 160, 167, 169-70, 192, 202, 220, 225, 238, 240, 406, 474, 487
- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 222-23, 399-400
- Anglo-Saxon coins, 224, 369
- Anglo-Saxon conquest, 170, 398
- Anglo-Saxon language, 170, 398, 400, 474, 487
- Anglo-Saxon law, 169, 221-22, 240, 277
- Anglo-Saxon literature, 168, 170, 222-23, 399-400, 487
- Anglo-Saxon state, 167, 170, 220-22, 275-77, 400
- Angora, battle of, 557
- Angoulême, 422
- Animals in medieval literature, 407-08; in sculpture, 603; in Renaissance painting, 605; and see Equestrian statues
- Anjou, 274, 321, 384, 457, 492, 494, 506, 508, 626; first House of, 274, 278, 459; and see Plantagenet; sec-
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