- Näfels, battle of, 542
- Nancy, battle of, 621
- Naples, 156, 216, 226, 341, 389. 565-66, 635; Kingdom of, 471-72, 553, 566-68, 586, 588, 593, 626, 634, 636
- Napoleon, 129, 540
- Narbonne, 82, 179, 272, 333, 357, 561, 568; Archbishop of, 273, 504
- Narses, 129-32, 136, 138
- Narthex, 146
- Nassau, see Adolf of
- Nationality, 212, 256, 260-61, 457, 472, 488, 490, 528, 530, 533, 566, 569, 612, 614-15, 622, 630, 633, 639; and see Government, growth of national
- "Nations" in medieval universities, 389, 552; at the Council of Constance, 567-68
- Natural history, 1
- Natural History, of Pliny the Elder, 24
- Natural law, 31
- Natural science, see Science
- Nature, in medieval literature, 400-01, 405, 408; in Renaissance art, 601-03; and see Landscape painting, Scenery
- Navarre, 273, 304, 321, 366, 405, 410, 517, 520, 522, 566, 630, 637
- Navas de Tolosa, battle of, 304, 453
- Nave, 146, chap. xxii, 600
- Navigation, see Shipping
- Navigation laws of Venice, 345
- Navy, see Shipping
- Nebuchadnezzar, 110
- Negro, a medieval, 360
- Nemours, Duchy of, 625-26
- Neo-Platonism, 64-65, 96, 106
- Nepos, Roman Emperor, 86
- Nepotism, papal, 463-64, 503, 506
- Nestorians, 109, 133, 184, 195, 550
- Netherlands, 15, 40, 340, 365, 512, 594, 616-18, 638
- Neustria, 118, 168, 179, 192-94, 198, 213, 261
- Nevers, County of, 525, 616
- Neville's Cross, battle of, 514
- New England, 223
- Newfoundland, 223
- New Monarchy, 629
- New World, 610-12, 638
- New York, 394
- Nibelungenlied, 42, 46, 400-01, 415
- Nicaea, 315-16; Councils of, 55, 105, 207
- Niccola Pisano, 601-02
- Nicholas II, Pope, 285-87, 302
- Nicholas V, 573-74, 592
- Nicomedia, 465
- Nicopolis battle of 553, 556-57
- Nika revolt, 132-33, 143
- Nile River, 3, 20, 110, 138, 322, 608
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- Nimes, 90
- Nimrod, 591
- Noah, 114, 409
- Nobility, 47, 52, 92, 94; of German invaders, 1 19-21, 123, 178; Arabian, 181, 189; Frankish, 193-94, 202-04; Anglo-Saxon, 222; in Germany, 287-90; of towns, 346-48, 354, 357; discussed by Dante, 411; Italian, 154, 160, 434, 578; English, 459; represented in Estates, 488; Scandinavian, 546; Bohemian, 569-72; Venetian, 581-82; Florentine, 584-85; passing of the medieval, 614, 616, 622-31; and see Feudalism, Barons, Lords, Counts, Dukes, Earls, Landgraves, Margraves, Marquis, etc.
- Nocera, 566
- Nogaret, 505
- Nomads, Asiatic mounted, 55-59, 139-40, 216, 228, 301, 309, 548, 554; and see Avars, Bulgars, Huns, Magyars, Mongols, Turks
- Nomads, of Arabia, 172, 176; and see Arabs
- Nomads, of Sahara, 178, 328; and see Berbers, Moors
- Nominalism, 379-80
- Norbert, 298, 307
- Noricum, 53, 79, 84, in, 136
- Norman architecture, 422-23, 487
- Norman conquest of England, 206, 223, 225, 246, 275-77, 398, 400, 483, 511
- Norman conquest of Sicily and southern Italy, 225
- Normandy, 206, 219, 225-26, 246, 256, 259, 270, 274-78, 292, 297-98, 314, 321, 329-31, 376, 378, 384, 406, 423, 457, 46o, 488, 494, 497, 501, 508-09, 513, 526-27, 530, 625-27
- Norman French, 400
- Normans, 219, 230-31, 286-87, 289, 291, 300-02, 314, 325, 343, 350, 352, 377, 383-84, 389, 406, 459, 461, 474, 480, 487, 633
- North Cape, 223
- North Mark, see Brandenburg
- Northern race, 10, 42
- Northmen, 202, 212, 216-26, 232-33, 239, 275-76, 301, 327, 369, 395, 397, 474; and see Danes, Normans, Scandinavians, Swedes
- North Sea, 12, 17, 40, 88, 213, 218, 226, 275, 369, 543, 617, 620
- Northumbria, Kingdom of, 166-69; 220; Earldom of, 276
- Norway, 12, 40, 42, 218, 270, 275-76, 395, 532, 543, 546
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