crèche tradition, 6.1, 6.2
Crusade experience
Dante’s portrayal of
death of
early years
enduring appeal of
Giotto’s portrayals of, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7
great insight of
hagiographical stories about
illnesses in later years, 2.1, 2.2
personality of, 2.1, 2.2
religious career, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 6.1
“trial” for theft
troubadour poems, attraction to
writings, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Frederick I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman emperor, 1.1, 2.1, 7.1, 8.1
Frederick II, Holy Roman emperor
Fresco technique of painting
Friars, 4.1, 6.1
Fulbert, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
G
Galan, Thierry
Galen, fm2.1, fm2.2, itr.1, 5.1
Galileo
Gaylin, Willard
Genesis, Book of
Geoffrey of Anjou, Count
Geoffrey the Fair, 2.1, 2.2
Geography, fm2.1, 3.1, 5.1
Geometry
Gerbert of Aurillac
Ghibelline family, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Ghiberti, Lorenzo
Giotto di Bondone, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1
architectural works, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2
Assisi basilica paintings, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7
development as artist, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5
influence on later artists
physical appearance and personal qualities
portrait of, 6.1, 6.2
realism in art, quest for
Scrovegni Chapel paintings, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 6.10, 6.11, 6.12, 6.13
Giraldus Cambrensis, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Gnostics, fm2.1, fm2.2, fm2.3
God
in Christianity
in Judaism
science and
Gold
Gothic architecture
Greek East
Green, Dominique Jerome
“Gregorian” chant
Gregory I (the Great), Pope, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, 1.1, 8.1, 9.1
Gregory II, Pope, itr.1, itr.2
Gregory XIII, Pope
Grosseteste, Robert
Guelph family
Guido, bishop of Assisi, 2.1, 2.2
Guilt
Guinevere, British queen, 2.1, 2.2
Gunpowder, 3.1, 5.1
H
Hart, Columba
Hawkins, Peter S.
Heinrich, archbishop of Mainz
Héloïse, 4.1, 8.1
letters of
Henry (son of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II), 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Henry II, king of England, 2.1, 8.1
Becket and, fm1.1, 1.1
death of
Eleanor of Aquitaine and
Louis VII’s war with
physical appearance and personal qualities
prophecies regarding
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
Henry V (Shakespeare)
Henry VIII, king of England
Herbert, George
Hildegard of Bingen, fm2.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1
anchorite experience, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Bernard of Clairvaux and, 1.1, 1.2
celebrity status, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
convent-founding ventures
election as abbess
feminism and, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Frederick Barbarossa and
health problems
medical works
monastic vows
music of, 1.1, 1.2
nuns, treatment of
on oblation
personal infallibility, presumption of, 1.1, 1.2
preaching career
reading program
reformist agenda, 1.1, 1.2
Richardis and, 1.1, 1.2
scientific works
Virgin Mary cult and, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
visionary experiences, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6
writings, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9
Hinduism
Hippocrates
Holy Grail
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 4.1, 5.1
Hrolf the Ganger
Hugh, bishop of Lincoln, 2.1, 2.2
Hugh of Lucca
Hugo, archbishop of Rouen
Huns
Hypatia
I
Ikonic tradition in art, itr.1, 6.1, 6.2
Innocent III, Pope, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 6.1, 6.2
Inquisition
Iraq war, itr.1, 3.1, 3.2
Irish prudery
Irving, Washington
Isidore of Seville
Islam
conflict with the West, 3.1, 3.2. See also Crusades
early history
Francis of Assisi’s experience with
Greek texts and
Kaaba shrine
Quran
women, treatment of
Italians, itr.1, 8.1
J
Jesus of Nazareth, itr.1, itr.2
Abelard’s views on
animal symbols of
Christ (Messiah) identity
Christian theology and
crucifixion art, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
dying thief and
Gnostics’ view of, fm2.1, fm2.2
Madonna and Son imagery, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6
Pantocrator (All-Ruler) Christ images, 6.1, 6.2
priestly pedophilia crisis and
Virgin Mary cult and
Jews. See Judaism
John, king of England, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
John XXII, Pope
John XXIII, Pope
John of Greccio, 6.1, 6.2
John of Salisbury, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
John of Wildeshausen
John Paul II, Pope
Jones, Terry
Jordan, William Chester
Joseph of Arimathea
Joyce, James
Judaism
“blood libel” against Jews
in classical period
deicide charge against Jews
Nazi persecution of Jews
sacrifice, tradition of
sexual attitudes in
Judas, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Justinian, Roman emperor, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
Jutta von Sponheim, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7
K
Kaaba shrine
Kahlo, Frida
Kamil, al-Malik al-, 2.1, 2.2
Kempe, Margery
Kepler, Johannes
Kilwardby, Archbishop Robert
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
King Lear (Shakespeare)
King’s entourage
Knights, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Kublai Khan
Kung, Hans
Kuno, abbot of Disibodenberg, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
L
Landulf of Aquino, 4.1, 4.2
Langue d’oc
Latin language
Latin West
Law, Cardinal Archbishop Bernard
Lenses
Leo I (the Great), Pope, itr.1, itr.2
Leo III, Pope
Leo XIII, Pope
Leonardo da Vinci
Leopold, duke of Austria, 2.1, 2.2
Letronne, Antoine-Jean
“Letter from Birmingham Jail” (King)
Levi, Carlo
Lewis, C. S., 2.1, 7.1
Lewis, R. W. B.
Library of Alexandria, fm2.1, fm2.2
Liebfrauenkirche, 1.1, 1.2
Limbo, doctrine of
Logic
Louis VI (the Fat), king of France
Louis VII, king of France
death of
Eleanor of Aquitaine and
Henry II’s war with
Louis IX, king of France
Lowell, Robert
Luini, Bernardino
Luther, Martin, itr.1, 7.1
M
Macbeth (Shakespeare)
Magi tradition, 3.1
Magna Carta
Maimonides, Moses, 5.1, 8.1
Malatesta, Paolo
Male, Emile
Manchester, William, 4.1, 4.2, 8.1
Mandelbaum, Allen
Map, Walter, 2.1, 2.2
Map of the World (Eratosthenes), fm2.1
Margherita degli Aldobrandeschi
Marie de Champagne, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Marriage law
Mary, Virgin. See Virgin Mary cult
Maurin, Peter
Maxims for Marriage (Plutarch)
Medicine, fm2.1, fm2.2, fm2.3, 1.1, 5.1
Merlin
Metaphorical and analogical thought
Michelangelo, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2
Middle Ages, periods of
Milton, John
Monasticism
in Christianity, 1.1, 1.2, 9.1
in classical world
Mondino da Luzzi
Mongols
Moses
Mouseion
Muhammad, 3.1, 3.2
Multhauf, Robert P.
Music, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1
Muslims. See Islam
“My Dancing Day” (song)
Mystery plays
N
Name of the Rose, The (Eco)
Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis (Brendan the Navigator)
Nero, Roman emperor
Newton, Isaac
Nicholas III, Pope
Normans
North-south division of Europe
Notre-Dame de la Belle-Verrière, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Novello, Guido
Nuclear arms
O
Oblation, 1.1, 1.2
Old Testament
Opera
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Opus maius (Bacon)
Ordo Virtutum (Hildegard of Bingen)
Oresme, Nicholas
Orient, European contact with
Origen, fm2.1, fm2.2, fm2.3
Original Sin, doctrine of, 4.1, 4.2
Ovid, 2.1, 2.2
Oxford
P
Padua
Papacy, itr.1, 7.1
Paris
Paris, Matthew
Pascal, Blaise
Pelagio, Cardinal
Pelicans
Peter of Ireland
Peter the Venerable
Petrarch
Petronilla, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Pharos, the Lighthouse
Philip II, king of France, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
Philip IV (the Fair), king of France, 8.1, 8.2
Philo Judaeus, fm2.1, fm2.2, fm2.3
Philosopher’s stone
Philosophy
of Abelard
of apathics
of Aristotle, 4.1, 4.2
of Plato, 4.1, 4.2
of Plotinus
of Thomas Aquinas, 4.1, 4.2
universals, problem of
See also Rationalism
Pilgrimages, fm1.1, 7.1
Pinter, Harold
Pisano, Andrea
Pius XII, Pope
Plantagenet family
Plato, fm2.1, fm2.2, fm2.3, fm2.4, 4.1, 6.1
philosophy of, 4.1, 4.2
Plotinus, fm2.1, fm2.2, fm2.3, fm2.4, 4.1
Plutarch
Poitiers palace, 2.1, 2.2
Polenta, Francesca da
Polo, Marco, 3.1, 8.1
Poor Clares
Portinari, Beatrice
Prejean, Sister Helen
Priestly pedophilia crisis
Procopius
Ptolemaic theory
Ptolemy, Claudius, fm2.1, fm2.2
Ptolemy Philadelphus, fm2.1, fm2.2
Ptolemy Soter, fm2.1, fm2.2, fm2.3
Public speaking
Purgatory concept
Pythagoras
Q
Quran
R
Raban, Jonathan
Rabb, Theodore K.
Ralph of Diceto, 2.1, 2.2
Raoul of Vermandois, Count, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Rationalism, fm2.1, 4.1
Christianity and, 5.1, 6.1
science and
Ravenna, 8.1, 8.2
Raymond of Poitiers
Reality, medieval perspective on, 3.1, 5.1
Reason. See Rationalism
Resurrection, concept of
Richard I (Lionheart), king of England, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8
Richard FitzNigel, bishop of London
Richardis von Stade, 1.1, 1.2
Richard of Wallingford
Robert Guiscard
Robin Hood
Roger II, king of Sicily
Roland of Parma
Roman civilization
barbarian invasions
Christianity and, itr.1, itr.2
East-West split, itr.1, itr.2
legal system
origins and expansion
Romanesque architecture
Romantic love
Abelard and Héloïse
in ancient poetry
sexual attitudes and, 2.1, 4.1
Rome’s rebuilding into Christian shrine
Rosamund de Clifford
Rosary
Rossellini, Roberto
Ruggieri, archbishop of Pisa
S
Sabines
Sacks, Oliver
Sacrifice, tradition of
Salic law
San Clemente church (Rome), 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
Sanitation
Santa Priscilla catacomb
Sant’Egidio community
San Vitale basilica (Ravenna), 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Sappho
Scala, Bartolomeo della
Scala, Can Grande della, 7.1, 7.2
Science, 4.1, 8.1, 8.2
in Alexandria
Bacon’s career
chemistry
Christian mysteries and, 4.1, 5.1
God and
Hildegard of Bingen’s works
pseudosciences of Middle Ages
rationalism and
unity of human knowledge and
Scivias (Hildegard of Bingen), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7
Scott, Sir Walter
Scrovegni, Enrico
Scrovegni Chapel paintings (Giotto), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 6.10, 6.11, 6.12, 6.13
Seafaring
Septuagint
Sexual attitudes
adultery, culture of, 2.1, 2.2
changes between historical periods
in Christianity, fm2.1, fm2.2
of Dante
in Greco-Roman society, fm2.1, fm2.2
in Judaism
romantic love and, 2.1, 4.1
royalty’s carryings-on
Shakespeare, William, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 5.1, 7.1
Shapeshifters
Sic et Non (Abelard)
Sinclair, John D., 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Singer, Charles, 5.1, 5.2
Slavs
“Smiling angel” of Rheims, 6.1, 6.2
Smith, Bessie, 1.1, 1.2
Soranus
Soul, idea of the
Spenser, Edmund
Spoto, Donald, 2.1, 2.2
Stained-glass windows, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 5.1
Statuary, 1.1, 1.2
Stoicism
Storytelling with pictures
Students, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Suger, abbot of Saint-Denis, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Synge, John Millington
T
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
Tempier, Bishop Étienne
Tengswich, Abbess
Teodora of Chieti, 4.1, 4.2
Teutonic Knights
Theobald of Champagne, Count, 2.1, 2.2
Theodora, Roman empress, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
Thomas Aquinas, itr.1, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 8.1, 9.1
astrology, rejection of
Dante’s portrayal of
life and works
posthumous fortunes
Thomas of Celano
Time, beliefs about
Torquemada, Tomás de
Translations of classical texts
Trier, 1.1, 1.2
Trier Cathedral, 1.1, 1.2
Trinity concept, fm2.1, itr.1
Troubadours, 2.1, 2.2
Tuan Mac Cairill
Twain, Mark
U
Ugolino, Cardinal
Ugolino of Pisa, Count
Unicorns, 5.1, 5.2
Universals, problem of
Universities
University of Bologna, 4.1, 4.2
University of Oxford, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1
University of Padua
University of Paris, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.1
Urban II, Pope
V
Varro
Vasari, Giorgio
Vernacular languages
Vestal Virgins
Vikings, 1.1, 3.1
Virgil
Virginity, classical attitudes toward
Virgin Mary cult
adultery and
cathedrals and, 1.1, 1.2
feminism and
Giotto’s portrayals of Mary, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5
Hildegard of Bingen and, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
Madonna and Son imagery, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6
value of virginity, medieval assumption regarding
Viriditas (abundance of nature), 1.1, 1.2
Vita Nuova (Dante)
Voice of the Faithful
Volmar (monk), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
W
Wade, John F.
“Waiting for the Barbarians” (Cavafy)
Weir, Alison, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
William I (the Conqueror), king of England
William IX, duke of Aquitaine
William X, duke of Aquitaine, 2.1, 2.2
William of Malmsbury
William of Saliceto
Women
Christian attitudes toward
female body, social attitudes toward
Islam’s treatment of
See also Feminism
Z
Zappa, Frank and Moon Unit
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