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The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000

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by Chris Wickham


  Adalbero I, bishop of Metz

  Adalbero II, bishop of Metz

  Adalbero, archbishop of Reims

  Adalbert, of the ‘Babenberger’ family

  Adalbert-Atto of Canossa

  Adalgis-Allo

  Adaloald, Lombard king

  Adams, Robert

  Adelaide, second wife of Otto

  Adelchis, prince of Benevento

  Adomnán, abbot of Iona

  Adoptionists

  Adrianople (Edirne), Turkey

  Adriatic Sea

  ‘Adud al-Dawla, Buyid ruler

  Adventius, bishop of Metz

  Áed Allán, king of Cenél nÉoghan

  Áedán mac Gabráin, king of Dál Riata

  Aegean Sea

  Aegidius, general

  Ælfgar, king’s reeve

  Ælfhelm Polga, king’s thegn

  Ælfhere, ealdorman of Mercia

  Ælfric, ealdorman of Mercia

  Ælfthryth, mother of Æthelred

  Ælfwyn, daughter of Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians

  Æthelbald, king of Mercia

  Æthelberht, king of Kent

  Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians

  Æthelfrith, king of Bernicia

  Æthelred I, king of Wessex

  Æthelred II of Mercia

  Æthelred II, king of England

  Æthelstan Half-king, ealdorman of East Anglia

  Æthelstan, king of England

  Æthelwine, ealdorman of East Anglia

  Æthelwold, bishop of Winchester

  Æthelwulf, king of Wessex

  Aetius, general

  Afghanistan

  Africa

  al-Afshin, Iranian prince

  Agapitus II, pope

  Agathias, historian

  Aghlabid dynasty

  Agila, Visigothic king

  Agilolfing family

  Agilulf, Lombard king

  Agnellus, historian

  Agobard, archbishop of Lyon

  Ahmad ibn Buya, see Mu‘izz al-Dawla

  Ahmad ibn Tulun, ruler of Egypt

  Aidan, bishop of Lindisfarne

  Aistulf, Lombard king

  Akhmim, Egypt

  Alahis, duke of Trento

  Alans

  Alaric I, Visigothic king

  Alaric II, Visigothic king

  Álava, Spain

  Alba; see also Scotland

  Albania

  Alberic, prince of Rome

  Albi, France

  Alboin, Lombard king

  Alcuin

  Aldebert, bishop

  Aldfrith, king of Northumbria

  Aldobrandeschi family

  Alemans, Alemannia, Germany ; see also Swabia

  Aleppo, Syria

  Alexander the Great

  Alexander, patriarch of Alexandria

  Alexandria, Egypt

  Alfonso I, Asturian king

  Alfonso II, Asturian king

  Alfred, king of Wessex/England

  Algeria

  ‘Ali ibn Musa

  ‘Ali, caliph

  ‘Alids

  Allah

  Almería, Spain

  Alps

  Alsace, France

  Althing, all-Iceland assembly

  Althoff, Gerd

  Alvar

  al-Waqidi, historian

  al-Wathiq, caliph

  Alypius, bishop of Carthage

  Amalaric, Visigothic king

  Amalarius of Metz

  Amalfi, Italy

  Amandus of Maastricht

  Amandus, bishop of Sorrento

  Ambrosius Aurelianus

  al-Amin, caliph

  ‘Amman, Jordan

  Ammianus Marcellinus, historian

  Amorian dynasty

  Amorion, Anatolia

  Anarawd, king of Gwynedd

  Anastasios II, emperor

  Anastasius I, emperor

  Anatolia, Turkey

  Anatolikon, theme of Anatolia

  Anau

  Anauhoiarn

  Andalucía

  al-Andalus, Spain

  Andronikos II, emperor

  Andronikos, governor of Cyrenaica

  Angeln, Germany

  Angers, France

  Angilberga, empress

  Angilbert, abbot of Saint-Riquier

  Anglo-Saxons

  Anicia Juliana

  Anicii family

  Anjou, France

  Ankara, Turkey

  Annappes, France

  Ansegis, abbot of Saint-Wandrille

  Anskar, missionary

  Anstruda of Piacenza

  Antaiopolis, Egypt

  Antalya, Turkey

  Antenor, patricius of Provence

  Anthemios of Tralles

  Anthemius, emperor

  Anthimus, doctor

  Antioch, Turkey

  Antoninus, bishop of Fussala

  Antony, Egyptian hermit

  Antrim, Northern Ireland

  Aphrodito, Egypt

  Apion family

  Apollinaris, son of Sidonius

  Apollos, head-man of Aphrodito

  Appennines, Italy

  al-Aqsa mosque, Jerusalem

  Aquitaine, France

  Arabia, Arabs

  Arabic, language

  Aramaic, language

  Arbogast of Trier

  Arbogast, general,

  Arcadius, emperor

  Arcadius, son of Apollinaris

  Ardennes, France/Belgium

  Arethas, archbishop of Caesarea

  Arezzo, Italy

  Argait, Lombard commander

  Argimund

  Argonne forest, France

  Argyll, Scotland

  Argyros family

  Ariadne, empress

  Arians

  Arichis II, duke of Benevento

  Arioald, Lombard king

  Arios

  Aripert I, Lombard king

  Aripert II, Lombard king

  Aristotle

  Arles, France

  Arleus, son of Ingelelm

  Armagh, Northern Ireland

  Armenia

  Armeniakon, theme of Anatolia

  Armenian, language

  Armentarius, doctor

  Arneburg, Germany

  Arnulf of Carinthia, emperor

  Arnulf, bishop of Metz

  Arnulf, bishop of Reims

  Arnulf, duke of Bavaria

  Arnulfing-Pippinid family

  Arochis of Campione

  Artemios, saint

  Arthur

  Artois, France

  Arvandus, praetorian prefect of Gaul

  Asia

  Asklepiodoros, statue-interpreter

  Aspar, general

  Asparuch, khagan of the Bulgars

  Aspidius, senior

  Asser, historian

  Astorga, Spain

  Asturias, Spain

  Asulf

  Aswan, Egypt

  Athanagild, Visigothic king

  Athanasios bar Gumoye

  Athanasios, patriarch of Alexandria

  Athaulf, Visigothic king

  Athena, goddess

  Athens, Greece

  Athos, Mount, Greece

  Attigny, France

  Attila, king of the Huns

  Audoin, bishop of Rouen

  Augsburg, Germany

  Augustine, bishop of Canterbury

  Augustine, bishop of Hippo

  Augustus, emperor

  Aurelio, Asturian king

  Aurillac, France

  Auriolus

  Ausonius, poet

  Austrasia, France/Germany/Belgium

  Austria

  Authari, father of Anstruda of Piacenza

  Authari, Lombard king

  Autun, France

  Auvergne, France

  Avars

  Avicenna, see Ibn Sina

  Ávila, Spain

  Avitus II, bishop of Clermont

 
Avitus, bishop of Vienne

  Avitus, emperor, see Eparchius Avitus

  Azo, son of Andrea, Salisano landowner

  Baalbek, Syria

  Babenberger family

  Badajoz, Spain

  Badorf, Germany

  Báetán mac Cairill, king of Dál Fiatach,

  Bagaudae

  Baghdad, Iraq

  Bagratuni family

  Bahira, Syrian hermit

  Bahnasa, Egypt

  Bains, France

  al-Baladhuri, historian

  Bald, doctor

  Baldwin II, count of Flanders

  Baldwin IV, count of Flanders

  Bali, Indonesia

  Balkans

  Balthild, queen of the Franks

  Baltic sea

  Bamburgh, England

  Banu Fihri family

  Banu Qasi family

  Barcelona, Spain

  Bardas Phokas

  Bardas Phokas the Younger

  Bardas Skleros, doux of Mesopotamia

  Bardas, brother of the empress Theodora

  Bari, Italy

  Barmakid family

  Barsanouphios, hermit of Gaza

  Basil I, emperor

  Basil II, emperor

  Basil Lekapenos

  Basil, bishop of Caesarea

  Basil, brother of Romanos

  Basilios, pagarch of Aphrodito

  Basiliscus, emperor

  Basques

  Basra, Iraq

  Bath, England

  Bavaria, Bavarians, Germany

  Bayt al-Hikma, Baghdad

  Beatrice, daughter of Hugh the Great

  Beauvais, France

  Bede, historian

  Bedouins

  Beirut, Lebanon

  Belgium

  Belisarios, general

  Benedict Biscop

  Benedict III, pope

  Benedict of Nursia

  Benevento, Beneventans, Italy

  Bentham, Jeremy

  Beowulf

  Berardenghi family

  Berbers

  Berengar I, king of Italy

  Berengar II, king of Italy

  Bergamo, Italy

  Berhtwulf, king of Mercia

  Berkshire, England

  Bernard ‘Hairy Paws’, count of Autun and elsewhere

  Bernard II, lord of Uxelles

  Bernard of Septimania

  Bernard, king of Italy

  Bernard, marquis of Gothia

  Bernard, son of Charles the Fat

  Bernicia, England/Scotland

  Bertha, daughter of Charlemagne

  Bertha, regent of Tuscany

  Berthfried

  Bertrada, mother of Charlemagne

  Bertram, bishop of Le Mans

  Bet She’an, Israel

  Bible

  Bierzo, Spain

  Billung family

  Birka, Sweden

  Black Death

  Black Land, see Sawad

  Black sea

  Bleda, brother of Attila

  Bloch, Marc

  Blois, France

  Bobastro, Spain

  Bobbio, Italy

  Bodilo

  Bodo, deacon

  Boethius

  Bogomils

  Bohemia, Bohemians, Czech Republic

  Boleslav I, Bohemian ruler

  Bolesław Chrobry, Polish ruler

  Boniface IV, pope

  Boniface of Canossa

  Boniface, archbishop of Mainz

  Bonitus, bishop of Clermont

  Bordeaux, France

  Boris I, khagan of the Bulgars

  Boris II, tsar of the Bulgars

  Boivoj I, Bohemian ruler

  Borrell, count of Barcelona

  Boso, bishop of Piacenza

  Boso, king

  Boso, marquis of Tuscany

  Bosonid family

  Bosporos, Turkey

  Boulogne, France

  Bourges, France

  Braga, Portugal

  Braulio, bishop of Zaragoza

  Brega, Ireland

  Brescia, Italy

  Bretons

  Brian Bórama mac Cennétig, Brian Boru,

  king of the Dál Cais

  Bridei son of Beli, Pictish king

  Brioude, France

  Bristol channel

  Britain

  Brittany, France

  Brown, Peter

  Bruges, Belgium

  Brun, archbishop of Cologne

  Brun, duke of Saxony

  Brunhild, queen of the Franks

  Bukhara, Uzbekistan

  Bulgaria, Bulgars

  Burchard I, duke of Alemannia

  Burgos, Spain

  Burgred, king of Mercia

  Burgundians, Burgundy

  Burgundofara

  Buyids, Iranian dynasty

  Buzurg ibn Shahriyar

  Byrhtnoth, ealdorman of Essex

  Byzantine empire, Byzantines, Byzantium

  Cadwallon, king of Gwynedd

  Caecilian, bishop of Carthage

  Caeonii family

  Caesarea, Israel

  Caesarea, Turkey, see Kayseri

  Caesarius, bishop of Arles

  Cahors, France

  Cairo, Egypt

  Caithness, Scotland

  Calabria, Italy

  Cambrai, France

  Campione, Italy

  Canossa family

  Canstatt, Germany

  Cantabria, Spain

  Canterbury, England

  Capetian family

  Cappadocia, Turkey

 

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