Council of, 7, 78, 630, 741, 764, 1082
   Second Council of, 427
   Niccolò Pisano, 727, 861-862, 889, 1058, 1086
   Nicene Creed, 7, 8, 34, 56, 57, 61, 528, 544
   Nicephorus I, 199-200, 427, 428, 443
   Nicephorus II Phocas, 230, 429, 430, 432
   Nicephorus Blemydes, 949
   Nicetas, 750
   Nicholas, St., 62*
   Nicholas I, St., 478, 526, 529, 535
   Nicholas II, 453, 482, 545, 546
   Nicholas III, 780, 802, 1072
   Nicholas IV, 782
   Nicholas V, 919
   Nicholas of Cusa, 387
   Nicholson, R. A., 267*
   Nichomachus Flavianus, 35
   Nicomachus, 99
   Nicomedia, 9, 10, 11, 46
   Nietzsche, F. W., 183, 711, 725, 957
   Nietzscheans, 253-254
   Nika revolt, 129, 130
   Nile River, 58, 59, 193, 286, 288, 607, 608, 874
   Nine Books of Disciplines (Varro), 915
   Nishapur, 207, 231, 273, 312, 319, 321, 323, 324, 339
   Great Mosque of, 274
   Nisibis, 49, 128, 132, 231*, 239
   Nizam al-Mulk, 308-309, 312, 319, 371
   Nizami (Ilyas abu Muhammad), 312, 324
   Nizami-i-Arudi, 321, 323
   Nizamiya College, Baghdad, 319, 331, 326
   Njal, 1033
   Noah, 156*, 184, 258
   nobles, 348, 392, 435, 459, 460, 461, 463, 465, 472, 473, 474, 475, 481, 512, 550, 566, 575, 640, 643, 646-647, 651, 653, 696, 699, 707-708, 718, 726, 730, 778, 825, 827, 840, 845, 861, 863, 1037, 1039, 1041
   Aragonese, 698
   Danish, 666
   English, 492, 493, 667, 669, 675-677, 870
   French, 691, 774, 814
   German, 511, 514, 549, 664, 961
   Hungarian,’ 658
   Italian, 651, 722
   Roman, 545, 706
   Russian, 448
   Scotch, 683
   Visigothic, 298
   Nogaret, Guillaume de, 695
   nomads, 270, 446, 447
   nominalism, 932, 934, 935, 950, 951, 1013
   Nonus Almansoris (al-Razi), 247
   Norbert, St., 791, 941
   Norman Conquest, 486, 489, 492, 493, 667-669, 678, 851
   Normandy, 473-474, 475, 479, 480, 481, 485, 493, 494, 496, 510, 553, 591, 666, 668, 669, 671, 674, 681, 688, 689, 693, 758, 774, 865, 869, 870, 882, 920, 931, 1019, 1054
   Normans, 286, 431, 444, 452-453, 475, 487, 492, 534, 543-544, 551, 568, 575, 586, 599, 662, 663, 669, 680, 681, 683, 684, 703, 704, 706, 831, 832, 851, 905
   Norns, 507
   Norse, 80, 473-474, 481, 492, 502-510, 575, 906, 913
   North Africa, 3, 38, 47, 64, 67, 118, 155, 192, 196, 219, 261, 284, 289, 291, 314, 316, 326, 349, 368, 369, 411
   North Sea, 376, 465, 514, 534, 617, 618, 645, 664, 665, 1005
   Northampton, 392
   Treaty of, 684
   Northumberland, 483, 495, 533-534, 683, 684
   Norway, 81, 493, 500, 502-504, 508, 553, 619, 666, 683, 1033
   Norwegians, 473, 489, 502, 504, 532, 832
   Norwich, 369, 487, 642, 829
   Cathedral, 871, 883
   Notker Balbulus, 476, 897
   Notker Labeo, 476
   Notre Dame, Paris, 317, 690, 697, 848, 860, 865, 875, 877, 882, 893, 894, 899, 914, 920, 921, 927, 928, 935, 1085
   school of, 920, 933, 934
   Nottingham Castle, 622
   Novellae (Justinian), 112
   Novgorod, 208, 447, 448, 615, 618, 619, 653, 655, 656, 754
   novices, 532, 913, 922
   Noyon, 639, 876
   Cathedral, 873
   numerals, 241, 244, 911, 989-991, 995, 1084
   numerology, 364, 985, 1067
   Numidia, 22, 64
   nunneries, 404, 472, 527, 732, 757*, 766, 836, 841
   nuns, 427, 467, 497, 536, 756, 805-807, 830, 831, 846, 847, 850, 942, 944, 997, 998, 1002
   Nuremberg, 391, 514, 619, 623, 641, 642, 822
   Nursia, 517, 536
   nursing, 807, 831, 998, 1002
   Nur-ud-din, 310-312, 329, 330, 594, 596, 1020
   Nur-ud-Din Ali, 408
   Nuwas, Abu (Hasan ibn Hani), 198, 220, 264
   oaths, 381, 389, 775, 779, 829, 830
   for Jews, 389
   Obadiah, Book of, 370*
   Obadiah Abu Isa ben Ishaq, 384-385
   Obeida, Abu, 189, 190
   Obeidallah, 193
   Obeidallah ibn Muhammad, 284
   Obituaries of Men of Note (Ibn Khallikan), 320
   oblates, 536, 785, 913
   Obolla, 210
   observations, astronomical, 288, 305
   obstetrics, 998, 1001
   Occam, 923, 979, 983, 1082
   occultism, 245, 249, 720, 911, 979, 984, 988, 1083
   Ockley, Simon, 334
   O’Connor, Rory, King of Ireland, 682
   Octavian, son of Alberic, 538
   octoechoes, 895
   oculists, 246
   “Ode to Zion” (Jehuda Halevi), 399-400
   Odenathus, 143
   Oder River, 511, 575, 646, 658, 659, 664
   Odin, 507, 508-509, 567, 1032
   Odo (Eudes), Count of Paris, 474, 475
   Odo of Cluny, 537, 897
   Odoacer, 42-43, 97, 99
   Odofredus, 916, 926*
   Odom of Deuil, 650
   Odyssey (Homer), 269
   Oesterley, W. O., 351*
   Of Generation and Corruption (Aristotle), 966
   Of Heaven and Earth (Aristotle), 966
   Offa, 465
   Officium ribaldorum, 900
   O’Flainn, Eochaid, 498
   Ogadai, 340, 658
   O’Hartigan, Kenneth, 498
   oikoumene, 45
   Oise River, 617, 876
   Olaf I Tryggresson, 485, 503
   Olaf II the Saint, 503, 504
   Olaf the White, 500
   Olaf Skoffkonung, 502
   old age, 831, 1006
   Old Testament, 16, 183, 185, 186, 211, 240, 351, 362, 364, 368, 387, 395, 396, 398, 401, 411, 425, 528, 535, 769, 776, 808, 907, 910, 1006
   Oleg, 448
   Olga, Princess, 448
   oligarchy, 648, 706, 709
   olifants, 840, 1031
   Oliver of Malmesbury, 995
   Olivier, 1030, 1031
   Olivo de Venezia, 850
   Olybrius, 42
   Olympic Games, 9
   Olympius, 28, 35, 41
   Omar I, (Umar Abn al-Khattab), 151-152, 165, 166, 172, 180-190, 192, 208, 215, 218, 220, 227, 228, 252, 258, 282
   Omar II, 194-195, 214
   Omar Khayyam, 231, 248, 275, 309, 312, 321-323, 327
   Omeir, 168
   Omurtag, 443
   On the Occult Operations of Nature (Aquinas), 966
   On the Celestial Hierarchy, 123
   “On the Consulate of Stilicho” (Claudian), 33
   On the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, 123
   On the Elements (Isaac Israeli), 405
   On Evil (Aquinas), 966
   On Foods (Galen), 912
   On Free Will (Augustine), 68
   On the Destruction of Britain (Gildas), 81
   On the Divine Names, 123
   On the Divine Unity and Trinity (Abélard), 90
   On the Generation and Corruption of Animals (Aristotle), 240, 911, 912
   On the Government of God (Salvian), 30
   On the Heavens (Aristotle), 912
   On the Heavens and the Earth (Aristotle), 911
   On the Improvement of the Moral Qualities (ibn Gabirol), 406
   On the Laws and Customs of England (Bracton), 678
   On the Marriage of Philology and Mercury (Martianus Capella), 915
   On the Measurement of the Circle (Archimedes), 911
   On Monarchy (Dante), 664
   On the Multiplication of Vison (Roger Bacon), 1011-1012
   On Mystical Theology, 123
   On the Parts of Animals (Ari 
					     					 			stotle), 912
   “On Perspectival Science” (Roger Bacon), 1011
   On Power (Aquinas), 966
   On the Principles of Nature (Aquinas), 966
   On the Properties of Things (Bartholomew of England), 1015
   On the Recovery of the Holy Land (Dubois), 696
   On the Relics of Saints (Guibert), 745
   On the Resurrection of the Dead (Maimonides), 413
   On the Rule of Princes (Aquinas), 966
   On the Soul (Aristotle), 240, 912, 966
   On the Syllogism (al-Farabi), 911
   On Truth (Aquinas), 966
   On the Unity of the Intellect Against Averroes (Albertus Magnus), 957
   On the Unity of the Intellect Against the Averroists (Aquinas), 962
   On the Unity of the Intellect (Aquinas), 966
   On Virtues (Aquinas), 966
   On the Mind (Aquinas), 966
   oneiromancy, 987
   opals, 992
   operations, 437, 720, 1000, 1001
   opthalmology, 246, 330, 403
   Oporto (Portus Cale), 701*
   optics, 289, 403, 995-996, 988, 1007, 1008, 1010, 1011-1012, 1084
   Optics (al-Kindi), 251
   Optics (Ptolemy), 912
   Opus maius (Roger Bacon), 289, 1011-1012, 1014, 1015
   Opus minus (Roger Bacon), 1007, 1008-1009
   Opus tertium (Roger Bacon), 1007, 1011
   oratory, 528, 903, 915
   Orcagna, Andrea, 889
   orchestras, 280
   “ordeals of God,” 567-568
   order, 470, 485, 579, 811, 817, 969
   moral, 332, 535, 536, 818, 820, 933, 945
   orders, mendicant, 779, 806, 1085
   military, 659
   monastic, 693, 758, 768, 785, 786*, 791-792
   military religious, 697
   “Ordinance of Omar,” 333
   ordinances, 374, 641, 813
   Ordericus Vitalis, 571, 742, 833, 907, 1019
   Orestes, prefect of Alexandria, 122-123
   Orestes, regent of Italy, 42
   Organon (Aristotle), 3, 99, 250, 949
   organs (biology), 357
   organs (music), 279, 902
   Organum, 899
   Oribasius, 120, 121, 437
   Orient, 127, 405, 441, 992, 1010
   spices from, 836
   Origen, 46, 55, 733
   Orlandi, Guido, 1057
   Orleans, 92, 474, 481, 639, 648, 697, 769, 771, 778, 914, 916, 923, 1025, 1051
   Council of, 387, 630
   University of, 926, 1018
   “Ormsby Psalter,” 853
   Ormuzd, 137, 139, 140, 147
   ornament, Arabic, 846
   Byzantine, 442, 449
   Gothic, 875, 888, 892
   Moorish, 291
   Romanesque, 846
   Orosius, 30, 69, 484
   Orontes River, 33, 328, 591
   O’Rourke, Tiernan, 682
   orphans, 379, 433, 531, 652, 755, 824, 831, 1002
   Orseolo II, Peter, 454, 455
   orthodoxy, 265, 267, 309, 311, 333, 341, 437, 776, 783, 811, 907, 923, 939, 954, 1008, 1015, 1068
   Christian, 250, 977
   Islamic, 331, 332, 405
   Orvieto, 770, 958, 962
   Cathedral, 811, 862, 888, 889
   Osier, Sir William, 885
   Ossian, 498
   Ostia, 41, 290, 616
   Ostrogoths, 22, 24, 25, 28, 97, 107, 109, 110, 117
   Oswald, King of Northumberland, 534
   Othman ibn Affan, 175, 190-191, 193, 304
   Otranto, 403, 404, 440, 633
   Otrar, 339
   Otto I the Great, 444, 450, 469, 511-512, 515, 538-539, 564, 568
   Otto II, 512, 536, 857
   Otto III, 512-513, 539, 540
   Otto IV, 685, 690, 714, 715, 763, 778
   Otto, Bishop of Constance, 546
   Otto of Freising, 1020
   Ottokar I, 660, 1075
   Ottokar II, 660
   Ottoman Turks, 171*, 313
   Ourique, battle of, 702
   Ovid, 787, 907, 915, 939, 1018, 1053, 1070, 1085
   Oviedo, 458
   Cathedral, 891
   oxen, 298, 559, 645
   Oxford, 487, 622, 628, 635, 640, 672, 676, 784, 853, 903, 908, 915, 922, 955, 979, 980, 990, 995, 998, 1006, 1014
   University, 135, 914, 924-926, 927, 928, 929, 977
   Oxus River, 142, 144, 193, 203
   Pachomius, St., 51, 57, 59
   Pachymeres, George, 949
   Paderborn, 462, 463, 468
   Padua, 451, 453, 616, 662, 708, 712, 722, 723, 919, 960, 998, 1062
   University of, 338, 414, 956
   paganism, 7-10, 18, 35, 73, 75, 76, 126-127, 425, 426, 451, 456, 462, 464, 483, 503, 529, 530, 553, 907, 916, 945, 974, 976, 977, 986
   pageantry, 432, 433, 752-753, 839, 840, 858
   pages, 566, 572
   painting, 270, 276, 286, 287, 319, 491, 686, 748, 752, 802, 846-847, 851-857, 860, 889, 1028, 1085
   Byzantine, 133
   Islamic, 276, 319
   Italian, 855
   mural, 853-856, 857
   Renaissance, 455, 727
   Roman, 854
   Sasanian, 149
   Palace School, Carolingian, 476, 478
   palaces, 263, 271, 274, 279, 282, 291, 293, 296, 302, 316, 429, 432, 435, 444, 449, 454, 456, 466, 657, 888
   Palencia, 802, 919
   Palermo (Panormus, Balerm), 282, 289, 290, 329, 374, 388, 403, 457, 624, 642, 680, 703, 714, 717, 726, 911
   University of, 291
   Palestine, 55, 69, 117, 125, 151, 156*, 161, 196, 206, 218, 226, 227, 229, 238, 273, 285, 292, 312, 347, 348, 349, 350, 351, 356, 367, 384, 385, 391, 392, 402, 404, 408, 411, 414, 415, 585, 588, 592, 593, 596, 597, 599, 601, 603, 605, 606, 607, 608, 609, 612, 616, 651, 673, 691, 716, 717, 752, 792, 827, 865, 980, 982, 992, 1006, 1020
   Palestrina, 812, 1085
   “palimpsest,” 906
   Palladius, 41, 83, 84
   Pallavicino, Oberto, 725, 783, 1085
   Palm Sunday, 393, 751
   Palma, 892, 919, 979
   palmers, 585
   Palmyra, 143, 201, 242
   Pamiers, abbey of, 773
   Pamplona, 458, 462
   Pandectae, 111, 434
   Pandnama (Sa’di), 326
   Pandulf, Duke of Capua, 543, 675
   Pange lingua (Aquinas), 751
   Pange lingua (Fortunatus), 94
   pantomimes, 433
   Pannonia, 37, 57, 97, 434, 444, 446, 451
   pantheism, 324, 810, 955, 1013
   Pantheon, Rome, 126, 130, 131, 530
   Panticapeum (Kerch), 446
   papacy, 452, 456, 461, 469, 511, 513, 521, 524-527, 530, 537-541, 543, 544, 566, 628, 638, 662, 664, 678, 694, 695, 697, 699, 714, 715, 717, 722, 723, 726, 729, 758, 759-765, 767, 783, 803, 811-816, 852, 899, 909, 917, 923, 983, 1008, 1012, 1013, 1020, 1062, 1063, 1082, 1083
   Papak, 142
   papal bulls, 668
   legates, 549, 551, 668, 677, 779
   Papal League, 727
   Papal States, 389, 512, 543, 545, 663, 706-708, 714, 715, 716, 717, 725, 730, 761, 763, 812, 813, 1063
   paper, 236, 304, 319, 624, 906
   Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim), 418
   Paraclete (oratory), 941, 942, 944, 947-948
   paradise, 179, 181, 182, 337, 341, 368, 413, 896, 1009, 1050, 1052, 1067, 1069, 1070, 1076, 1077, 1080
   Paradise Lost (Milton), 270, 1022
   Paradiso (Dante), 72*, 1061, 1065, 1067
   paralysis, 330, 791
   “pardoners,” 740
   parentage, 76, 360, 361, 380, 382, 757*, 785, 823
   Paris (Lutetia), 12, 81, 92, 122, 150, 263, 388, 402, 403, 414, 415, 432, 461, 474, 475, 476, 481, 615, 621, 624, 635, 642, 647, 648, 670, 674, 680, 688, 696, 697, 717, 776, 814, 822, 823, 826, 827, 831, 835, 840, 849, 850, 876, 877, 882, 903, 914, 915, 918, 919, 920, 934, 935, 937, 939, 948, 951, 955-956, 959, 960, 962, 979, 980, 982*, 990, 998, 999, 1000, 100 
					     					 			1, 1002, 1006, 1029, 1036, 1052, 1070
   Cathedral, see Notre Dame, Paris
   Council of, 838, 955-956
   Paris, University of, 246, 247, 287, 404, 675, 920, 922*-929, 931, 936, 954, 956-957, 959, 962, 977, 1001
   Paris Company for the Transit of Merchandise by Water, 634
   Paris Psalter, 441
   Paris, Matthew, 612, 627, 720, 725, 767, 803, 850, 920, 926, 1020
   parishes, 758, 765, 863
   Parliament, 119, 365, 459, 486, 646, 678, 679, 700, 822, 823, 826, 858, 1083
   Parma, 662, 712, 724, 770, 916
   parodies, 841, 900, 1025
   Parthenon, Athens, 126, 530, 860-861, 893
   Parzival (Wolfram), 1039, 1085
   Pascal, Blaise, 808
   Paschal lamb, 388
   rites, Jewish, 392*
   Paschal II, 514, 546, 661
   Paschasius, St., 856
   Passion, 385, 752
   Passion Play, 1028
   Passover, 358, 386
   Past and Present (Carlyle), 926
   Pastoral Care (Gregory I), 484
   Pastoureux, 647-648
   Patarines, 767, 770, 780, 783
   Pater noster, 742, 749
   Paternon, Filippo, 779
   pathology, 249
   Patras, 435, 436, 616
   patriarchs, 349, 428, 527, 528-529, 530, 867, 1008
   patricius, 42, 43, 97, 100
   Patrick, St., 82, 83-84, 89, 496, 498, 735, 1068
   “Patrimony of Peter,” 706
   patronage, 276, 306, 1039
   Patzinaks, 446, 586, 653
   Paul III, 919
   Paul of Aegina, 437
   Paul, Bishop of Constantinople, 8
   Paul the Christian, 402
   Paul the Deacon, 451, 465
   Paul, St., 9, 45, 66, 68, 69, 73, 84, 123, 127, 194, 523, 528, 547, 753, 881, 965, 976, 1068
   Paul the Silentiary, 856
   Paula, 51, 52, 54, 55, 59, 78
   Paulicians, 47, 425, 528
   Paulinus, missionary, 534
   Paulinus of Pella, 29-30
   Paulinus, St., 56, 85, 86
   Pavia, 40, 98, 444, 451, 452, 462, 466, 616, 638, 712, 714, 916, 1025, 1026
   Synod of, 761
   University of, 916
   peace, 470, 571-572, 755, 804, 818, 844
   Peace of God, 571
   peasant proprietorship, 425, 553, 644, 648
   peasants, 118, 298, 424, 430, 435, 444, 447-448, 465, 481, 485, 519, 571, 578, 640, 644-645, 646, 647, 650, 656, 687, 688, 704, 778, 791, 816, 832, 841, 1007
   free, 434, 497, 503, 505
   German, 514, 664, 665
   Italian, 731
   Persian, 140
   Peckham, John, 924, 925, 960, 962-963, 978, 995
   pederasty, 220, 267, 299, 380, 821
   Pedro I, 315
   Pedro II, 698, 772
   Pedro III, 373, 699, 726, 1037, 1075
   Peipus, Lake, battle on, 655, 659
   Pelagius, Franciscan monk, 557
   Pelagius, heresiarch, 48, 54, 69-70, 946
   Pelagius II, 520, 522
   Pelayo, 458