Albigensian Crusade, 405, 444-45 , 450, 456, 460, 466, 483, 49i, 495, 570
Albigensians, see Cathan
Alboin, King of the Lombards, 156
Alchemy, 182-83, 388
Alcibiades, 70
Alcohol, 182; and see Drinking
Alcuin, 211, 373
Aldermen, 362; and see Ealdorman
Alencon, House of, 625-26
Aleppo, 344
Alessandria, 353
Alexander the Great, 22-23 , 26, 40, 53, 190, 211, 407 , 591
Alexander Severus, Roman Emperor, 68-69
Alexander II, Pope, 287
Alexander III, 297, 352-53
Alexander V, 567
Alexander VI, 634-36
Alexandria, 22, 184, 343, 390, 608; Patriarch of, 102-03, 106-08, 156, 177, 190
Alexandrines, 407
Alexius Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor, 310-11, 315-16 , 343
Alfonse, brother of Louis IX of France, 497
Alfonso-VI, King of Castile and Leon, 302-03
Alfonso X, the Wise, King of Castile, 384, 386, 410, 537
Alfonso I, King of Aragon, Sicily, Naples, 586, 593
Alfonso II, King of Naples, 635
Alfred the Great, King of England, 220-23 , 275, 399, 474
Algebra, 386
Algeria, 180
Allegory and allegorical interpretation, 113, 154, 171, 408, 411-12
Alliterative verse, 400, 402; examples of, 516-17, 562-65
Almansor, 188-89
Almeria, 184, 186, 188-89, 304
Almohades, 302, 304, 309, 328, 453
Almoravides, 302-04, 309, 312
Alphabet, 21, 55, 183, 386
Alpine race, 10, 139
Alps, 11-12, 17, 23, 42, 80, 88-90, 151, 197, 213, 227, 247, 266, 271, 290, 335, 342, 355, 357, 369, 374, 378, 389, 398, 431, 492, 539, 553, 601,
617, 634, 638; passes of, 350, 353, 468, 583
Alsace, 88-90, 537, 621
Alsace-Lorraine, 260
Altaians, 55, 548
Amain 313, 341, 343
Amandus, St., 167
Ambrose, St., 77, 113, 157
Ambulances, 632
Ambulatory, 419, 431, 433
America and Americans, 8, 16, 358, 391, 612
America, discovery of, 15, 223, 587, 610, 632
Amiens, 366, 510, 524; cathedral of, 430; 432
Ammianus Marcellinus, 66, 107
Amphitheaters, 2, 32-33, 46, 126, 435
Amurath, see Murad
Amusements, of ancient cities, 25, 27, 33; of Roman Empire, 37-38, 66; of early Germans, 43; during barbarian invasions, 92-94; early medieval, 126; Mohammedan, 184, 320; feudal, 252-53; of students, 392; folk-festivals, 409; of Edward II, 485; Hanse games, 543; fools and jesters, 562; of Frederick III, 614; Burgundian, 617-18, 639; and see Hunting
Anagni, 505
Anastasrus, Byzantine Emperor, 128, 132
Anathemas, 194-95, 438, 441; and see Excommunication
Ancestor worship, 24, 45
Ancona, March of, 461-62, 464
Andalusia, 188
Angelico, Fra, 605
Angers, 274, 376
Angevin, see Anjou, House of
Angles, 85, 118, 166, 220-21, 233
Anglo-Norman monarchy, 226, 277, 474
Anglo-Saxons, 122, 160, 167, 169-70 , 192, 202, 220, 225, 238, 240, 406, 474, 487
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , 222-23, 399-400Anglo-Saxon coins, 224, 369
Anglo-Saxon conquest, 170, 398
Anglo-Saxon language, 170, 398, 400, 474, 487
Anglo-Saxon law, 169, 221-22, 240, 277
Anglo-Saxon literature, 168, 170, 222-23, 399-400, 487
Anglo-Saxon state, 167, 170, 220-22, 275-77, 400
Angora, battle of, 557
Angoulême, 422
Animals in medieval literature, 407-08; in sculpture, 603; in Renaissance painting, 605; and see Equestrian statues
Anjou, 274 , 321, 384, 457, 492, 494, 506, 508, 626; first House of, 274, 278, 459; and see Plantagenet; sec-
