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Mysteries of the Middle Ages

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by Thomas Cahill

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
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  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)

  Neoplatonism

  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

  Schillebeeckx, Edward

  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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