- Courland, 184
- Court attendance, 242-43, 251, 257, 481, 491
- Court ceremonial officials, 202, 262, 268, 277, 491, 533
- Court ceremony and etiquette, 70, 131, 148, 242, 268, 435, 617
- Court life of southern France, 404-06; of Italian Renaissance, 580, 587
- Courtesy, 403
- Courtier, The Book of the, 594, 596
- Courtly epic, 406
- Courts of law, see Admiralty, Church, Feudal, Folk, Gilds, Hundred, Imperial, Inquisition, Law, Manorial, Papal, Royal, Shire, Towns, Vehm
- Courtrai, battle of, 499, 512
- Cracow, 549; university of, 552
- Crécy, battle of, 513-14, 517, 519, 522, 526, 622
- Credi, Lorenzo di, 606
- Cremona, 352, 468
- Crenelation, 247
- Crete, 4, 19-20, 226, 308, 465
- Crimea, 55, 344
- Criminous clerks, 296-98
- Critical attitude in history, 6-8, 597-98
- Croatia and Croats, 151-52, 229, 308
- Crossbow, 514
- Cross, holy, 150-51, 321; sign of, 101, 158; "taking the," 311
- Cruciform churches, 419-20
- Cruelty, ancient, 32, 38; Visigothic, 121; Byzantine, 195-96, 308, 342; of Northmen, 216, 218; Bulgarian, 229; feudal, 251, 447-48; of Timur, 557; of Italian despots, 577-78
- Crusades, 16, 190, 225, 260, 299, 301, 310-26, 346, 349, 363, 405, 417, 435, 444, 463, 465-69, 483, 494-95, 537, 546, 554, 612; against the Ottoman Turks, 556, 558, 574, 622; against the Hussites, 570-71
- Crusading Orders, see Military Orders
- Crypt, 420
- Ctesiphon, 177, 184
- Cube, The, see Kaaba
- Culmbach, 540
- Culture, see Civilization, Classical
- Curiales (or, Decurions), 26, 66-67, 73
- Curia, see Papal court
- Curia regis, 268, 277
- Customs, surviving from earlier periods, 4; power of, among early Germans, 48-49; "college," 392; variety of medieval local, 371, 474-75, 508, 617, 632
- Customs duties, 258, 263, 333, 335-36, 343, 345, 351, 358, 366, 467, 521, 608
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- Cyclades, 367
- Cyprian, 102
- Cyprus, 19-20, 177, 308, 321, 453
- Cyrene, 106
- Czechs, 216, 228, 390, 552, 570
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- Dacia, 54-55, 151
- Dagobert, King of the Franks, 167, 192-93
- Dalmatia, 69, 118, 136, 138, 151, 209, 308, 445, 453, 583; Archbishop of, 157
- Dalriada, Kingdom of, 166
- Damascus, 150, 180, 182, 319, 344, 557
- Damasus, Pope, 107
- Damietta, 322
- Damme, 367
- Danelaw, 220-21
- Danegeld, 275, 277
- Danes, 199, 202, 217, 220-22, 226, 275, 305, 474; and see Denmark
- Dante, 410-15, 432, 560, 562, 576, 586-88, 593, 598, 601; quoted, 503
- Danube River, 12, 17, 23, 43, 53-55, 75-76, 80, 84-85, 138-40, 151, 228-29, 309, 548, 554
- Dardanelles, 54
- Dates, in history, 13; of French and English kings, 511
- Dauphin, 519-21, 526-28, 620, 623
- Dauphine, 271, 519, 620, 624
- David, of Donatello, 603-04
- Deacon, 100, 105, 154, 286, 562
- Dean, 437, 484
- Decameron, 593
- Deccan, 394
- Decius, Roman Emperor, 54
- Decorated architecture, 431
- Decretum of Gratian, 378
- Decurions, see Curiales
- Defensor pacis, 561-62, 575
- Defensores, 73
- Degrees, see Academic
- De hæretico comburendo, statute of 565
- Delhi, 556
- Demesne, 236, 344, 477, 486
- Democracy, 360, 362, 524, 570, 577, 584, 618; and see Communes, Government, People
- Democritus, 22
- De monarchia, 412
- Demons, 33, 65, 97, 158, 160, 379-80, 412, 429
- Demosthenes, 21, 24
- Denmark, 40, 85, 218, 275, 287, 369, 398, 455, 460, 488, 532, 543-47
- Deposition of rulers, of popes, 285,
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