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The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople

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by Bauer, Susan Wise


  Lagos, 658–59

  Lahneck Castle, 613

  Lahore, 122, 123, 226, 228–29, 326, 328, 545

  Lakhnawati, 480

  Laknaur, 328

  Lakshman Sen, king of the Sena, 119, 123–24

  Lalibela, Gebra Maskal, 287–88

  Lanark, 400

  Lancaster, duke of, 591

  Lancaster, House of, 596, 625

  Landa, Diego de, 188

  Lanfranc, 5–6

  Langton, Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, 204, 248–49, 252

  Languedoc, 236–37, 238, 240, 246, 250, 258–59, 320, 391, 517, 582

  Laodicea, 39

  La Rochelle, 578

  Lascaris, Beatrice, duchess of Milan, 645–46

  Las Huelgas, 244

  Las Navas, 244, 245

  Las Navas de Tolosa, Battle of, 244, 245, 246

  Lastours, 240

  Latin, 354

  classical Greek texts available in, 5

  Qur’an translated into, 46

  Latin Empire, 180, 217–23, 367–70, 389

  timelines, 224, 232, 371, 378

  Latin language, xxiii

  law:

  Church, 53, 323, 413

  English, 395

  English church, 126–27

  in Germany, 388

  Islamic, 226, 332, 351, 588

  Jewish, 89, 395

  Mongol, 198, 339

  natural, 51

  Salic, 417, 463, 467, 499, 515

  Tang, 329

  Western Xia, 198

  “Law of the Fishes,” 117

  Lazar, 598

  Legnano, 85

  le Gros, Guy Foulques, see Clement IV, pope

  Leicester, 507

  earl of, 205, 238

  Leinster, 148–49

  Le Loi (Binh Dinh Vuong), king of Dai Viet, 640–42

  Le Mans, 594

  Leo I, king of Cilician Armenia, 17

  León, 43, 44, 88, 89, 242, 243

  Leonardo da Vinci, xxxiv

  León-Castile, 306–7, 307, 515

  lepers, 463

  Le (Ho) Quy Ly, 534–35

  Lesser Brothers, see Franciscans

  Letts, 284

  Lewes, 362

  li, 57

  Li Anchaun, king of Western Xia, 198–99

  Liegnitz, 315

  Lille, 250

  Limoges, 174, 577–78

  Limpopo river, 290–91

  Lin’an (Hangzhou), 55–56

  Lincoln, earl of, 435

  Lindholm Castle, 607

  lingams, 108, 113, 300–301

  lingayat, 113–14

  Lionel of Antwerp, 620

  Li-p’an mountains, 267

  Li Qingzhao, 25

  Li Renxiao, king of Western Xia, 197–98

  Lisbon, 88, 658

  Lithuania, 554–55

  timelines, 556, 564, 570

  Lithuanians, 284–85

  Little Poland, 284

  Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, prince of Wales, 394–97

  logic, 6

  Loire river, 251, 517, 578, 663, 665

  Lollards, 614

  Lombard, Peter, 53, 354, 647n

  Lombard League, 85–86, 318–24, 364, 410, 484, 486, 571, 573

  Lombardy, 322, 323, 486, 604, 646, 648

  London, 30, 76, 203, 252, 361, 363, 434, 451, 465, 501, 520, 578, 582, 583, 584, 625

  Long Campaign, 675

  Longxing Peace Accord, 59

  Lopburi, 531–32

  Lorraine, duke of, 321

  Lothair III, Holy Roman emperor, 20

  Louis, duke of Orleans, 594, 621

  Louis (dauphin, son of Charles VI), 621

  Louis IV (Louis of Bavaria), Holy Roman emperor, 416, 484–86, 487, 499–503, 551, 571

  Louis VII, king of France, 36–40, 37, 76–79, 128, 148, 150–52, 167

  Louis VIII, king of France, 248–49, 254–55, 259, 303

  Louis IX, king of France, 259, 303–4, 308, 332–37, 347, 353–57, 364, 367–68, 372–74, 391, 398, 410

  Louis X, king of France, 416–17, 466

  Louis of Anjou, 520, 521

  as king of Hungary, 551, 552, 553

  Louvre, 250

  Lübeck, 83

  Lucca, 415, 572–73, 575

  Lund Cathedral, 608

  Luong river, 534

  Lusignan, Hugh de, 308

  Lu Yu, 56, 59

  Ly dynasty, of Vietnam, 27, 29, 298–99, 301

  Lyons, 238, 324, 375, 376, 413

  Ly Than Tong, 29

  Ly Thuong Kiet, 27

  Ma’bar, 506

  Machaut, Guillaume de, 510, 551

  Machiavelli, Niccolò, xxiv, 612, 646

  Mac Murchada, Diarmait, king of Leinster, 148–49

  Madanapala, king of Pala empire, 120

  Madden, Thomas, 36

  Madura, sultanate of, 480

  Mafia, 97

  Magha, 270–71

  Maghan, king of Mali, 457

  magic, 459

  Magna Carta, 251–54, 251, 283, 361

  Magnus Ericsson, king of Sweden and Norway, 604–5

  Magyar tribes, 137

  Mahakassapa, 111

  Mahavansa, The, 108, 110

  Mahmud, Nasiruddin, 561–63

  Mahmud Ghuri, 225

  Ma-Huan, 638

  Maimon ben Joseph, Rabbi, 89

  Maimonides, 89

  Maine, 151, 202

  Mainz, 19, 321

  Mainz, archbishop of, 613

  Majorca, 306

  Malaya, 450

  Maldives, 638

  Malestroit, Treaty of, 501

  Mali, 209, 209, 455–59, 456, 458, 459

  timelines, 460, 469, 477

  Malik Shah, 34

  Malinke people, 100, 208

  Malmesbury, 78

  Malwa, 428, 549, 627

  mamluks, 225–26, 228, 327, 336–37, 346–49, 376, 404, 449, 450, 459, 463, 628, 632

  Circassian, 628

  timelines, 352, 358, 366

  Manco Capac, king of the Incans, 192–93

  Manfred, 360, 363–64, 390

  mangonels, 258–59

  Mani, 455

  Mannar, 109–10

  Mansa Musa, king of Mali, 455–59, 458

  Mansa Sulayman, king of Mali, 457–59

  Mansurah, 335–36

  Mantua, 321, 572

  Manuel, 422, 541

  Manuel I Comnenus, emperor of Constantinople, 35, 40, 103–5, 134–39, 138n, 141–44, 168n, 673

  Manuel II, emperor of Byzantium, 598–601, 629–33, 650

  Mao Ziyuan, 525

  Mapungubwe, 289, 290–91

  timelines, 292, 297, 302

  Mar, earl of, 498

  Maragheh, 349

  Marara, king of the Zagwe, 287

  Marcel, Etienne, 519

  Marche, 308

  Marche, count of, 202, 335

  Mardin, 632

  Margaret, queen of Norway, 397, 605

  Margaret, queen of Scotland, 397

  Margaret, ruler of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, 605–9, 606

  Margaret (heir to Scottish throne), 397–98

  Margaret (wife of Henry the Younger), 153

  Margaret of Provence, queen of France, 333, 336

  Marguerite, queen of England, 401

  Marica river, 537

  Mari Diata II, king of Mali, 459

  Marigny, 667

  Marinids, 372, 655–57

  timelines, 661, 672, 682

  Marion of Lanark, 400

  Marmande, 259

  Marmara, Sea of, 170, 222, 370, 423, 680

  Marrakesh, 45, 88, 244, 372

  Marseille, 168, 507, 541

  Marshal, William, 167, 252–55, 304

  Marsilius of Padua, 485–86, 500, 582

  Märstetten, count of, 484

  Martin IV, pope, 389, 391

  Martin V, pope, 618, 648

  Martirano, 321

  Marwan II, caliph, 134n


  Mary, queen of Hungary and Poland, 553–54

  Mary of Antioch, empress of Byzantium, 137, 144–45

  Masakiyo, 67

  Master of Hungary, 354–55, 462

  mathematics, 46

  Matilda, Holy Roman empress, 10, 19–22, 103

  England invaded by, 22, 76–78, 149, 254

  Matthew, gospel of, 257

  Matthew (son of Emperor John VI), 537–38

  Mayans, 187–88

  Mayapan, 187–88

  mazmudins, 242

  Mazovia, 284, 552

  Meath, king of, 148–49

  Meaux, 579

  Meaux, Geoffrey de, 445

  Mecca, 95, 97, 103, 155, 290, 429, 451, 456, 480, 482, 638

  sharif of, 351

  Medici, Cosimo de’, 650

  Medieval Warm Period, 443

  Medina, 351

  Mediterranean Sea, 14, 102, 104, 134, 135, 176, 236, 294, 306, 342, 351, 370, 372–73, 391, 445, 506, 551, 587, 588, 628, 655

  Mehmed, emperor of the Ottomans, 632–33, 650

  Mehmet II, emperor of the Ottomans, 676–80

  Mekong river, 531

  Melisande, queen of Jerusalem, 21

  Melun, 49

  Mencius, 341

  Menelik, 288

  Menteith, John, 434

  Mercia, 394

  Merkit coalition, Mongol, 196

  Merv, 134, 264

  Mesoamerica, 188–89

  Mesopotamia, 157

  Messina, 506

  Messina, Strait of, 389

  Mesufa tribe, 85

  Metternich, Klemens von, 16

  Meulan, 663

  Meung, 663

  Mewar, 230, 329, 428

  Mexica people (Aztecs), 491–95, 493

  Mexico, Valley of, 491

  Michael, archangel, 288

  Michael VIII Palaeologus, ruler of Byzantium, 369–70, 375–76, 389

  Michael IX, co-emperor of Ottoman empire, 420–22

  Michael Comnenus, ruler of Epirus, 220, 221

  Michelangelo Buonarroti, xxiv

  Middle East, 121, 343, 349, 450

  Milan, 83, 85, 235, 320, 321, 323–24, 374, 484, 486, 571, 573–75, 612, 646, 648, 675

  Milan, archbishop of, 235n

  Minamoto clan, 62–63, 65–67, 161, 473

  Minamoto Sanetomo, 213

  Minamoto Tametomo, 65

  Minamoto Tameyoshi, 65

  Minamoto Yoriie, shogun, 212–13

  Minamoto Yoritomo, 162–64, 211–13

  Minamoto Yoshinaka, 162–63

  Minamoto Yoshitomo, 65–67, 162

  Minato river, 474

  Minerve, 240

  Ming dynasty, 528, 528, 534, 565–69, 637–43, 641

  timelines, 570, 576, 586, 644, 653, 661

  Minor Friars, see Franciscans

  Mircea the Elder, prince of Wallachia, 633

  Moche people, 191–92

  Modena, 324

  Monastery of St. George, 539

  money, paper, 55–56

  Mongke, Great Khan, 339–43, 382

  Mongolia, 310, 379

  timelines, 269, 274

  Mongols, 55n, 195–200, 262–68, 279, 282, 301, 310–16, 312, 327, 328, 329, 333, 339–43, 344, 347–49, 374, 379–86, 405–8, 406, 420, 450, 452, 470, 525, 527, 531, 533, 554, 557–63, 565–66, 627–32, 637, 642

  Christianity and, 340, 341, 348–49

  drinking habits of, 339, 340, 341, 405

  empire of, 265, 314, 343, 344

  Islam and, 348, 349

  timelines, 201, 206, 210, 325, 345, 352, 387, 393, 409, 418

  Monreale, church of, 324

  Monstrelet, Enguerrand de, 622–23, 625, 662, 664–65, 669, 678–79

  Montclus, 462

  Montfort-l’Amaury, count of, 205

  Montlhéry, 303

  Montpellier, 465

  Montreal Castle, 155

  Montrose, 399

  Morava river, 598

  Moravia, 388

  Moray, Thomas Randolph, earl of Moray, 497–98

  Morgannwg, 394

  Morocco, 88, 91, 451

  Mortimer, Catherine, 621

  Mortimer, Edmund, earl of March, 620–21

  Mortimer, Roger, 464–68

  Moscow, 315, 339, 560

  grand duke of, 509

  Moses, 287

  Mosul, 156, 157, 379

  Mototsune, 61n

  Mount Cadmus, 39

  Mount Hiei, 472

  Mourtzouphlus, see Alexius V Ducas

  Mstislav III, grand duke of Kiev, 266

  Mughulistan, 557

  Muhammad, Prophet, 134n, 226n, 277, 351

  Muhammad, sultan of Khwarezm, 300

  Muhammad (brother of Ghiyas), 122–23

  Muhammad bin Tughluq (Ulugh Khan), 478–82

  Muhammad Ghuri, sultan of the Ghurids, 225–28

  Muhammad Shah I, king of Vijayanagara, 546–47

  Mühldorf, 484

  Mu’izzu-d din, sultan of Delhi, 403–4

  Mulahidah, 226

  mune, 288–90

  Munich, 83

  Muntaner, Ramon, 421–22

  Murad, emperor of the Ottomans, 539–42, 598

  Murad II, emperor of the Ottomans, 650, 673–78, 674

  Murcia, 88, 89, 306–7

  Muret, 245–46

  Musa (son of Bayezid), 630, 632

  Muslims:

  in Edessa, 39

  in Palestine, 34–35

  Mussis, Gabriele de’, 506

  Myeongjong, king of Goryeo, 72–73

  My Son, 30

  Naiman tribe, Mongol, 196, 198

  Nambokucho era, 475, 475, 569

  Nam Dinh Province, 298

  Nam Quoc Son Ho (“Land of the Southern Kingdom”), 27

  Namur, Guy de, 412

  Nanchang, 527

  Nanjing, 25, 58, 527, 528, 638

  Nantes, 304

  Nanzhao, 341

  Naples, 360, 391, 392, 574, 612

  Kingdom of, 410, 571, 579

  Nara, 62

  Naramasimha Deva, 328

  Nare Fa Maghan, king of the Keita, 208

  Narmada river, 108, 405, 479

  Nasiruddin, sultan of Delhi, 327–29

  Nasrid dynasty, 307

  National College of Dai Viet, 299

  natural law, 51

  Navarette, 522

  Navarre, 43, 89, 89, 242–44, 373, 398, 416, 417, 516, 519–21

  timelines, 524, 530, 536, 597, 603

  Nayaka, Kapaya, sultan of the Andhra County, 480

  Nazca people, 189–91, 190

  Ndiadiane N’Diaye, emperor of the Wolofs, 459

  Nemanjicć dynasty, 139

  Nepal, 119

  Neri (Black Guelphs), 411, 415

  Neszmély, 674

  Neustadt, 445

  Nguyen Trai, 640–41

  Niani, 209

  Nicaea, 39, 219, 223, 234, 420, 423

  empire of, 220, 222, 347, 367–70, 368

  timelines, 224, 232, 371, 378

  Nicene Creed, 234, 248

  Nicetas Choniates, 144–46, 176, 180

  Nichiren Shonin, 383

  Nicholas III, pope, 389

  Nicholas IV, pope, 392

  Nicholas V, pope, xxv, 660, 677

  Nicholas V, pope (Pietro Rainalducci), 486–87

  Nicholas Mesarites, 180

  Nicomedia, 423

  Nicopolis, Battle of, 601, 616, 621, 629

  Niger river, 95–97, 98, 208–9, 456–57, 588

  Nijo, emperor of Japan, 65n, 66–67, 161

  Nile river, 105, 276–77, 287, 326, 335, 419, 449, 451, 587

  Ningbo, 27

  Ninth Crusade, 375, 398

  Nis, 598

  Nishapur, 264

  Nitta Yoshisada, 473–74

  Nizami, Hasan, 228–29

  Nizamu-d din, Chief Justice, 404

  Nizari, 226–28, 227, 342

  Njimi, 95, 588

  Nogaret, Guillaume
de, 412–13

  Norfolk, duke of, 595

  Norman Conquest, 584, 596

  Normandy, 5, 8, 20, 21, 76, 77, 78, 131, 151, 167, 203, 249, 354, 501, 516–17, 520, 625, 667

  Henry I’s invasion of, 4

  Henry III as duke of, 304

  kings of, 16

  Normans, 22, 82, 83, 135, 141

  North Africa, 43, 44, 88, 89, 90, 94–95, 135, 243, 306, 372–73, 655

  timelines, 378, 387

  North America, 189

  Northampton, 397

  North Equatorial Current, 455

  North Sea, 447

  Northumberland, 445

  Norway, 372, 397, 604–6, 607, 608–9

  timelines, 610, 619, 626

  Notre Dame Cathedral, 31, 49, 53, 668

  Novgorod, 266, 315

  numerals, Hindu-Arabic, 46

  Nur ad-Din, 38, 39–40, 102–6, 102, 134, 135, 137, 155–56

  Nymphaion, Treaty of, 370

  Obatala, 98

  Odantapuri Buddhist monastery, 119

  Offa’s Dyke, 394

  Ogiso Owodo, king of Benin, 98–99

  Ogodei Khan (son of Genghis Khan), Great Khan of the Mongols, 267–68, 310, 313, 316, 339

  Oirat confederation, 637–43, 641

  Oise river, 522

  Oki, 473

  Oki Island, 473

  Olaf, king of Denmark and Norway, 605, 608

  Old Man of the Mountain, 226

  Oliver of Paderborn, 277, 284

  Oljeitu Khan, ruler of Il-khanate, 421, 450

  Ólodùmarè, 98

  Oranmiyan, king of Benin, 99

  Orda, 313

  Oreja, 45

  Orhan, ruler of Ottoman empire, 422–25, 537–40

  Origen, 615

  Orissa, 230, 270, 327–28

  Orkney Islands, 398

  Orleans, 235n, 354, 663, 665

  Orleans, duke of, 622, 625

  Ormus, port of, 273

  Orvieto, 389

  Os Lusiadas (Camões), 90

  Osman, chief of the Ottoman Turks, 419–22

  Otokoyama Shrine, 383

  Otrar, 263

  Otto IV, Holy Roman emperor, 177, 178, 249–50, 276

  Ottocar II, duke of Bohemia, 388

  Ottoman empire, 463, 537–40, 540, 551, 560, 598–602, 600, 621, 628–33, 631, 650, 660, 674

  Constantinople overthrown by, xxiv–xxv, 14, 600–602, 629–30, 673, 677–81

  origins of, 419–25, 421

  timelines, 426, 432, 439, 454, 460, 469, 543, 550, 556, 603, 610, 619, 634, 644, 653, 682

  see also Turks

  Otto of Freising, 36, 52, 82–83

  Ourique, Battle of, 45

  outlaws, in Japan, 471

  Oxus river, 134, 262, 263, 342–43, 525, 557

  Pachymer, George, 420

  Padmini, queen of Mewar, 428

  Padua, 572, 575

  Pak So, 311

  Pala empire, 117–21, 123–24

  Palermo, 324, 390, 391, 392

  Pali language, 270, 271, 273

  Palk Strait, 270, 547

  Palma, 306

  Panciatichi family, 411

  Pandyan Kingdom, in south India, 272–73, 428, 547–48

  Pandyan realm, 428

  papacy, timelines, 12, 18, 24, 33, 42, 48, 54, 60, 68, 87, 93, 183, 241, 247, 256, 261, 269, 280, 286, 292, 297, 325, 331, 338, 345, 358, 366, 371, 378, 387, 393, 402, 418, 426, 469, 477, 483, 490, 496, 504, 511, 524, 543, 550, 556, 576, 586, 590, 603, 610, 619, 653, 661, 672, 682

 

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