Cathedral, 491, 671, 744, 857, 871, 883, 884, 909
Canterbury Tales (Chaucer), 806, 830
“Canticle of the Sun” (St. Francis), 797, 800-801
Cantigas del Rey Sabio, Las, 853
cantors, 384, 896
Canute, 487
Capella Palatina, Palermo, 291, 705, 852
Capetian kings, 696
capitals, 861, 866, 872
Capitol, Rome, 450, 706, 707
Capitulare de litteris colendis (Charlemagne), 466
capitularies, 404, 466, 467
Cappadocia, 10, 46, 62, 78, 1002
Caprasius, St., 57
Capua, 452, 517, 703, 719
Carcassonne, 87, 772, 775, 782
cardinals, 545, 759, 760, 761, 768, 834
caricatures, 804
Carinthia, 444, 511, 660
Carloman, 461, 474, 511, 538
Carlyle, Thomas, 926, 1080
Carmathians, 262
Carmelites, 792, 804, 806
Carmen (Bizet), 980
Carmina Burana, 838, 1024, 1027
Carnival, 711, 929
Carolingians, 460-475
Carpathians, 447, 553, 658
carpets, 278, 432, 835
Persian, 318
Carpini, Giovanni de Piano, 339, 608, 656, 993
carriages, 621
Cartagena, 37, 624
Carthage, 30, 31, 38, 41, 64, 65, 67, 69, 109, 283, 284, 289
Carthusians, 788, 909
cartography, 329, 994
cartularies, 786*
carving, 846, 847-848, 857, 859-860, 884
Casanova, Giovanni Iacopo, 53
Caspian Sea, 144, 208, 231, 238, 241, 446, 447, 448, 506, 616, 655
Cassiodorus, 98, 99, 102, 915
castellum, Roman, 892
Castile, 295, 402, 458, 459, 697, 698, 699, 700, 702, 766, 802, 891, 892, 919
castles, 271, 378, 474, 553, 561, 643, 644, 651, 729, 797, 835, 837, 888, 892
English, 870
Frank, 317
Norman, 493, 870
Saracen, 291
Castor and Pollux, 745
castration, 433, 437
casuistry, 358, 364, 945
rabbinical, 358
Catalonia, 373, 459, 480, 571, 651, 698, 919
Catalaunian Fields, battle of the, 40
Catania, 704
cataract, operations for, 330
Categories (Aristotle), 240
Cathari, 767, 771-774, 778, 779, 780, 783
cathedral chapters, 863, 915
funds, 853-854
cathedrals, 276, 341, 343, 491, 564, 579, 636, 642, 649, 697, 747, 748, 753-754, 766, 785, 844, 845, 850, 852, 853, 854, 857, 859, 861, 863-869, 895, 913, 1066, 1086
English, 847, 870-872, 883, 885
French, 767, 876-882
funds for, 378
German, 886-887
Gothic, 640, 873, 875, 1085
Italian, 888-890
libraries of, 909
Norman, 873
Romanesque, 846, 870
Spanish, 890-892
Catholicism, 115, 521, 653, 747, 748, 801, 957
Catholics, 67-68, 451, 775
orthodox, 1083
Cato, Marcus Porcius (the Censor), 34
Cato, Marcus Porcius (Uticensis), 1074
cattle, 140, 435, 645
Catullus, Gaius Valerius, 76, 466
Caucasians, 26
Caucasus, 146, 156*, 341, 369, 446, 448, 653
Causae et curae (Hildegarde), 998
cautery, 295, 1001
Cavalcanti, Guido, 731, 1057, 1058, 1059, 1061
Cavallini, Pietro, 845
cavalry, 552, 569, 687, 839
Cecco d’Ascoli, 988
Cefalú Cathedral, 852
ceilings, 866, 870, 872
Celestial Hierarchy (Dionysius), 477
Celestine I, St., 48, 83, 896
Celestine III, 689, 808
Celestine V, St., 812
celibacy, 45, 47, 53, 76, 113, 181, 220, 259, 360, 529, 542, 757*, 787, 788
clerical, 544, 550, 784
Celts, 80, 82, 492, 531-532, 668, 681, 832
Iberian, 458
censorship, 907
census, 297
Cephalonia, 453
Cephisus River, 651
ceramics, 275, 310, 342
ceremonies, 382, 807, 986
Christian, 841, 1053
Jewish, 415
Cerchi family, 730
Cerularius, Michael, 544-545
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1055
Ceuta, 284, 329
Ceylon, 208, 238, 242, 993
Chalcedon, 147, 424
Council of, 49, 61, 64
Chalcis, 9, 51
Chalcondylas, Demetrius, 907
Chama ben Ilae, 361
Champagne, 401, 480, 615, 695
champions, paid, 568
champlevé, 849
Champollion, Jean François, 237
Chananya, 367
chancery, papal, 545, 768
chandeliers, 287, 303
Chang-an, 198, 241
Chanoch, 369
Chanson de Roland, 462, 576, 578, 697, 1030-1031
chansons de geste, 697, 1042, 1044-1051, 1054
chants, Ambrosian, 896
Gallican, 897
Greek and Syrian, 895
Gregorian, 895, 896-897, 899, 1085
Mozarabic, 897
chapels, 863, 891
chapter house, 883
Charibert, 94
charity, 77-78, 360, 379, 433, 470, 521, 785, 805, 820, 844, 1060, 1083
administration of, 831
Christian, 1002
communal, 382-383
ecclesiastical, 706
Jewish, 361
of St. Francis, 796
organized, 378, 818
Charlemagne, 93, 150, 198, 200, 207, 370, 443, 450, 452, 459, 461-471, 476, 479, 480, 483, 484, 492, 500, 510, 525, 526, 528, 535, 541, 544, 547, 564, 579, 587, 626, 660, 662, 663, 673, 763, 765, 817, 831, 845, 848, 897, 913, 914, 1019, 1030, 1031, 1044, 1063, 1078
capitularies of, 630, 633
court of, 1018
law of, 824
truce of, 837
“Charlemagne’s cloak,” 440
Charles IV, 696
Charles V, 315, 316
Charles of Anjou, 694, 699, 726, 727, 912, 963
Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor, 472, 473, 474, 476-479, 497, 515, 531, 833, 904, 914
Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor, 472, 474
Charles the Good, Count of Flanders, 568
Charles Martel, 292, 461, 463, 766
Charles III the Simple, King of France, 275, 472
Charles, son of Charlemagne, 470, 471
Charles of Valois, 730-731, 812
Charter of Love, 788
charters, 389, 638, 690, 699, 828, 882
Chartres, 474, 475, 476, 481, 695, 753, 846, 863, 914, 923, 1023
school of, 949-953
Cathedral, 132, 317, 579, 691, 697, 753, 858, 859, 860, 861, 865, 873, 874, 875, 877-880, 882, 883, 892, 1084
chastity, 76, 527, 798, 804, 805, 824, 1026, 1038
Châteaudun, 892
Château Gaillard, 892
châteaux, 850, 892
libraries in, 909
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 343, 681, 805, 806, 830, 904, 905, 1019, 1045, 1052*, 1054
chauvinism, 458
cheating, 829
checkers, 838
chemistry, 122, 244-245, 305, 720, 911, 994, 996-997, 1000, 1012
Chernigov, 448, 653, 656
cherubim, 354, 1079
chess, 342, 838, 928
Chester, 487
Chevalier de la charette, Le (Chrétien), 1045
Chichester Cathedral, 871
Childebert I, 92
Childebert II, 92
Childeric I, 91
Childeric III, 461
childlessness, voluntary, 360
children, 138, 381, 466, 821, 825, 826, 864, 1007
of aristocracy, 562-563
care of, 360
Christian, 388
German, 838
of heretics, 781
illegitimate, 529, 822
Jewish, 360-361, 380, 390
peasant, 557
poor, 914
of priests, 542
sacrifice of, 386
school, 360
unbaptized, 984-985
Chilperic, 92-93, 94, 370, 530-531
China, 49, 118, 140, 150, 152, 219, 236-238, 242, 263, 277, 285, 376, 441, 616, 617, 655, 658, 993
Chinchilla, 851
Chinese, 209, 216, 236, 328, 658, 989, 996
Chinon, 672
Chintila, 370
Chioggia, 713
Chios, 440
Chirurgia (Salicetti), 1001
Chirurgia magna (Lanfranchia), 1001
chivalry, 459, 496, 551, 552-579, 651, 669, 698, 748, 844, 1018, 1039, 1045, 1046, 1049, 1084
Chivi al-Balchi, 367
Chlodio, 91
Chlodomer, 92