- Miniatures, 432, 601
- Ministeriales, 246, 255, 279, 288
- Minnesingers, 405-06
- Minorites, see Franciscans
- Minorities, 192, 271, 285, 288, 461, 481, 491, 495, 523-24, 527, 571, 627
- Minstrels, 251
- Miracle Plays, 409, 415, 426
- Miracles, pagan, 63; of Jesus, 98; of early Christians, 100; early medieval, 158-69, 170-71, 374; of Mohammed, 176; of the crusades, 310; of the Mass, 439~4i, 564; 528
- Miran Mirza, 557
- Mirror of Perfection, 454
- Missal, 210
- Missi, 203-05, 222, 475, 492
- Missions, Christian, 27, 55, 100-01, 109, 111-12, 134, 149, 152, 160, 163-71, 194, 233, 393-94, 435, 450, 550
- Mithra, worship of, 64, 113
- Mithridates, 54
- Model Parliament, 484
- Modena, 352, 603
- Moesia, 75-77
- Mohammed, the Prophet, 151, chap. x.
- Mohammed II, Sultan of Turkey, 558-59
- Mohammedanism, 5, 14, 145, chap. x, 200, 223, 226, 273, 301-04, 309-12, 320, 322-24, 385, 402, 453, 466, 549, 558, 608, 611, 630; and see Arabs, Islam, Moslems, Saracens
- Moldavia, 140, 554
- Mombasa, 611
- Monasticism (including monasteries, monks, nunneries, etc.), 2, 16, 92, 109-12, 116, 123, 125, 134, 152, 154, 157-68, 171, 175, 182, 184, 194-95, 199, 206-07, 210, 212, 218, 220, 223, 229, 232-33, 240, 274, 281-86, 291-93, 295, 298-300, 303, 307-08, 320, 327-28, 337, 363, 365, 370, 375-77, 381, 392, 412, 418, 427, 435-36, 450-52, 456, 458, 490, 492, 495, 501, 515, 544, 546, 569, 572, 592, 601-02; and see Abbot, Asceticism, Friars, Military Orders, Rule
- Money, see Banking, Capital, Coinage, Interest
- Money fiefs, 243-44
- Money payments on the manor, 486
- Mongols, 58 ; their invasions and Empire, 393, 548-51, 554, 556, 559, 608
- Mongolia, 393, 550
- Monks, see Monasticism
- Monophysites, 128, 133, 195
- Monopolies, 616, 633
- Montanism and Montanus, 101
- Mont Cenis Pass, 353, 356
- Monte Cassino, 160, 377
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- Montefeltro, Federigo di, 580
- Montenegro, 453
- Montferrat, Marquis of, 265, 464, 466, 580
- Montfort, see Simon de
- Monthéry, battle of, 625
- Montpellier, 357, 456, 508, 519
- Moors, 54, 79, 121, 126, 135, 182, 273, 373, 630-33; and see Berbers, Libyans, Mauretania, Morocco
- Moral Essays, of Plutarch, 38
- Moral standards, 20, 38, 93, 98, 162, 574
- Moralia, of Gregory the Great, 158
- Morality Plays, 375
- Morat, battle of, 621
- Moravia, 307, 537, 551
- Moravians, religious sect, 571
- Morea, Duchy of, 466
- Morgante Maggiore, 593
- Morgarten, battle of, 542
- Morocco, 135, 180
- Mosaic Law, 95
- Mosaics, Roman, 32; at Ravenna, 83, 129, 146-47, 420; of St. Sophia, 145; of Cordova, 186; at Pisa, 421; stained glass and miniatures compared with, 426-27, 432; at Venice, 599; in Italy, 601
- Moscow, 549, 551
- Moselle River, 620
- Moslems, chap. x, 195, 200, 226-27, 233, 273, 302-04, 309-10, 312, 320-23, 326, 366, 550, 554, 558, 574
- Mosques, 180, 185-87, 189, 558
- Mosquitoes, 60, 184
- Mother-goddess, 63-64
- Mountains of Europe, 11-12
- Mozambique, 611
- Mummeries, 409
- Mundus, 133
- Municipalities, of Roman Empire, 26-27, 39, 66; survival in early Middle Ages, 115, 121; governing bodies of, disappear, 123, 327-28; and see Communes, Towns
- Murad I, Sultan of Turkey, 556
- Murad II, 557
- Musa ibn Nusair, 178-79
- Museums, 7, 25, 125, 147-48, 225, 417
- Music, 124-25, 140, 183-84, 375, 392, 403-04, 410, 598, 606
- Muslimin, 174; and see Moslems
- Myriobiblos, of Photius, 148
- Mysteries or Mystery Plays, 334, 375, 409, 415, 426
- Mysticism, 64, 311, 411
- Mystic significance of numbers, 142
- Mythology, Greek, 21-24, 62, 97, 112, 166, 586, 589, 591; Oriental, 64: Norse, 45-46, 59, 397, 400
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