Asia Minor, 3, 46, 128, 130, 147, 150, 151, 156*, 191, 200, 206, 308, 311, 317, 318, 329, 348-349, 369, 370*, 431, 440, 590, 603, 616, 652, 769
Askold, 448
Asma, 168
Aspasia, 319
Assandun, 485, 492
assassination, 285, 292, 295, 296, 308, 309, 310, 312, 313, 368, 396, 428, 433, 501-502, 529, 568, 671, 783, 952, 958
Balkan, 657
Assassins, 262, 309-310, 340
assemblies, 463, 467, 718, 814, 839
Asser, 483, 484, 491, 496
Assisi, 753, 792, 793, 794, 796, 798, 799, 800, 801, 854, 855
basilica of, 802
Cathedral, 888
Assyria, 343
Astarte, 746
Astrakhan, 208, 446
astrolabe, 242, 244, 305, 937, 991
astrology, 121, 122, 139, 217, 244, 352, 364, 409, 417, 433, 438, 720, 911, 956, 970, 984, 987, 991, 996, 1000, 1005, 1007, 1016, 1067
astronomers, 309, 403, 991
Christian, 698
Irish, 533
Islamic, 242, 288
Jewish, 402-403
Astronomical Canon (Ptolemy), 122
astronomical tables, 241, 244, 305, 911
astronomy, 139, 240, 241, 242, 244, 288, 322, 329, 336, 343, 352, 372, 398, 402-403, 408, 437, 438, 460, 497, 698, 911, 913, 915, 919, 987, 990, 991, 1007, 1067, 1077, 1084
Asturias, 462
King of, 458, 459
asylum, right of, 753
asylums, 693, 823
for insane, 331
poor, 293
Ataulf, 36-37
Athanagild, 92, 95
Athalaric, 102
Athanaric, 46
Athanasius, St., 7-8, 18, 55, 57, 58, 115
atheism, 331, 334, 336, 674
atheists, 725, 955-956
Athens, 9, 11, 27, 33, 61, 62, 73, 99, 121, 123, 138, 258, 446, 654, 845, 893
University of, 9
Athos, Mt., 440, 530
Atiyya, Abu’l, 223
Atlantic Ocean, 196, 462, 596, 695, 752, 845
atomism, 905, 955
atonement, 359, 523, 740, 964*
Day of, 384
Attalia (Antalya), 595
Attica, 128, 434
Attila, 38-41, 41-42, 97, 443
also see Etzel
Attis, 75
Aucassin, 1050-1051
Aucassin et Nicolette, 697, 736, 1049-1051
Audovera, 92
Augsburg, 444, 549, 619, 809
Augusteum, Constantinople, 5, 129, 130
Augustine, St., 30, 31, 38, 45, 48, 54, 55, 56, 64-75, 76, 78, 121, 122, 177, 260, 332, 522, 523, 524, 533, 630, 734, 735, 737, 738, 744, 750, 788, 808, 822, 896, 932, 959, 961, 964, 967, 971, 976, 977, 980, 984, 986, 992, 1013
Augustinian Canons, 788
Augustus, 23, 34, 132, 156, 428, 1063, 1085
Aurelian, 23, 88, 108
Ausculta fili (Boniface VIII), 814
auscultation, 998
Ausonius, 56, 57, 75, 78, 85-86
Austin Friars, 804
Austrasia, 92, 93, 460
Austria, 607, 658, 660, 663, 664
authors, 236, 293-294, 322, 757, 908, 1016
autocracy, 425, 525, 526, 706
auto-da-fé, 782, 783
Auvergne, 87, 475
Auxerre, 83-84, 466, 476, 479, 670, 951
Cathedral, 857, 860
Avars, 4, 423, 424, 443, 446, 451, 462, 660
Ave Maria, 693, 742, 985
Avempace (Abu Bekr ibn Bajja), 333-334, 337, 957
Avenzoar, see Zuhr, Abu Marwan ibn
Averroës (Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Rushd), 123, 249, 251, 255, 257, 258, 330, 332, 333-338, 342, 343, 407-408, 415, 606, 910, 913, 954, 955, 957, 961, 963, 964*, 909, 971, 977, 978, 982, 984, 1005, 1068, 1070
Averroism, 337-338, 370, 955-958, 979
Aversa, 452
Avesta, 89, 141, 142, 186*, 269
aviaries, 840
Avicebron, see Gabirol, ibn
Avicenna (Abu Ali al-Husein ibn Sina), 203, 223, 243, 244, 247-249, 251, 255-257, 259, 276, 279, 322, 325, 334, 336, 337-338, 342, 407, 412*, 898, 910, 911, 913, 954, 955, 957, 961, 963, 982, 1011, 1014, 1068, 1070
Avignon, 292, 389, 577, 610, 621, 648, 688, 695, 706, 822, 919
Council of, 387
papacy to, 729, 815
Avila, 701, 890
Cathedral, 890-891
Avitus, 42, 86, 87
Avranches, 671, 939
Awan, ibn al-, 330
Awfi, Muhammad, 319
Aw ja, ibn Abi al-, 212
Aybak, 312
Ayyub, 310
Ayyubids, 311, 312
Azbar, el-, 273
mosque of, 286, 287-288
Azerbaijan, 210, 328, 340
Aziz, 284, 287
Aziz, ibn, 276
Azriel, Jewish mystic, 417
Baalbek, 230, 271, 310, 319, 404
Babik al-Khurrani, 210
Babylon, 157, 191, 232
Babylonia, 185, 241, 343, 366, 367, 369, 384, 402, 405, 417, 989
Babylonian Captivity, 365, 815
backgammon, 838
Bacon, Francis, 243, 336, 981, 982, 1008, 1009, 1010, 1015
Bacon, Roger, 249, 251, 257, 288, 289, 338, 733, 802, 804, 831, 843, 899, 912, 913, 923, 925, 953, 958, 980, 982, 988, 991, 992, 995, 1003, 1006-1015, 1016, 1082
badges, 387, 388, 392, 764
yellow, 394
Badi al-Hamadhani, 263
Badia y Leblich, Domingo, 155*
Badoer, Agnello, 454
Badon, Mt., battle of, 81
Baghdad, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 203, 204, 206, 207, 208, 210, 222, 223, 226, 227, 232-234, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 242, 246, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 257, 264, 265, 268, 273, 278, 285, 297, 302, 304, 308, 309, 310, 312, 317, 330, 331, 338, 340, 366, 369, 404, 432, 436, 438, 440, 447, 457, 467, 597, 719
Christians in, 333
Great Mosque of, 593
colleges in, 319
Bagratuni family, 205
Bahram I, 149
Bahram II, 149
Bahram V Gur, 144
Bahram Cobin, 146
Bahya, 386, 910
Baibars, 312-313, 340, 607, 608
Baitar, Abu Muhammad ibn, 329, 330
Bajazet, 840
Bajja, ibn, see Avempace
bakers, 625
Bakhtisha, Jibril ibn, 246
Balas, 144
Baldur, 507
Baldwin I, Latin Emperor, 603, 605
Baldwin II, Latin Emperor, 652, 694, 849
Baldwin I, King of Jerusalem, 590, 592
Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem, 593
Baldwin III, King of Jerusalem, 595
Baldwin IV, King of Jerusalem, 1020
Baldwin V, Count of Flanders, 481, 482, 493
Balearic Islands, 698, 919
Balian, Lord of Nablus, 598
Balkans, 23, 25, 39-40, 43, 47, 98, 118, 150, 432, 443-446, 462, 528, 553, 586, 657-659, 665, 769, 779, 832, 903, 992
Balkash, Lake, 993
Balkh, 49, 136, 144, 152, 191, 194, 323, 324, 337, 340, 993
ballads, 268, 508, 1030, 1031, 1033
Balliol, John, 924
Balliol, John, King of Scotland, 683, 924
Baltic Sea, 443, 447, 448, 462, 514, 618, 645, 654, 658, 664, 665
ports, 376
states, 616, 659, 832
Baluchistan, 136, 196
Bamberg Cathedral, 886, 909
Bangor, 497, 500
banishment, 335, 374, 393, 427, 525, 528, 529, 533, 730, 777, 779, 1061
bankers and banking, 120, 379, 436, 613, 627, 628, 710, 729, 730, 839, 1084
Cahorsian, 628
Christian, 377, 385, 392
Florentine, 728-729
French, 767
Italian, 628
Jewish, 378, 385, 393, 395
Bannockburn, 682, 684
banquet, 836
baptism, 462, 467, 475, 528, 738, 740, 769, 821
compulsory, 389, 390, 393
Bar Cocheba, 347
bar mizvah, 382*
Barbad, 138
barbarians, 22-43, 314, 434, 444, 473, 519, 754, 818, 829-830, 843, 893, 906, 930, 1039
barbarism, 79, 423, 443, 445, 464, 470, 514, 520, 893, 984, 1036, 1073, 1082, 1084
barbers, 1000-1001
Barcelona, 372, 400, 402, 403, 404, 459, 462, 571, 612, 615, 617, 623, 638, 699, 857, 892, 979, 1000, 1085
Cathedral, 909
Count of, 460
Bardas, the Caesar, 428, 430, 437, 528, 529
Bardesanes, 528
Bardi family, 628, 629
bards, 495-496
Irish, 901, 1054
Islamic, 263-270
Welsh, 684, 901, 1054
Bar-Hebraeus (Abu-’l-Faraj), 282, 283, 984
Bari, 290, 369, 440, 453, 616
Barmakids, 197, 199, 246, 308