By Sword and Fire

by Sean McGlynn

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  INDEX

  abbeys, ref1

  Abelard, ref1

  Abels, Richard, ref1

  Achilles, ref1

  Acre, siege of, ref1, ref2, ref3

  massacre, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

  Advent, ref1

  Africa, ref1

  Agaune, ref1

  Agincourt, battle of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  casualty figures, ref1, ref2, ref3

  massacre, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  myths, ref1

  agricultural implements, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Ailward, ref1, ref2

  Aire, river, ref1

  Albert of Aachen (Aix), ref1, ref2, ref3

  Albi, ref1

  Albigensian Crusade, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

  alcohol, ref1

  Alcuin, ref1, ref2

  Alençon, ref1

  Alençon, Duke of, ref1, ref2

  Aleppo, ref1

  Alesia, ref1

  Alexander II, King of Scotland, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Alexander the Great, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Alexius, Emperor, ref1

  Alice (infant-killer), ref1

  Alice of Abervenny, ref1

  Alice of Wheatley, ref1

  Aller, river, ref1

  Allmand, Christopher, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Alnwick, ref1

  Ambroise, ref1

  American Civil War, ref1

  Americans, ref1

  ‘Anarchy’, ref1

  Anatolia, ref1

  Andelys, ref1, ref2

  anger, ref1

  Angers, ref1

  Angevins, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  and Harrying of the North, ref1

  and torture, ref1

  animals

  on crusades, ref1, ref2

  and entertainments, ref1

  livestock, ref1

  in sieges, ref1, ref2

  and torture, ref1

  see also cats; dogs; geese; goats; horses; mice; pigs; rats; ravens; whales

  Anne, Queen, ref1

  Anonymous of Béthune, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Antioch, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  antiquity, ref1

  anti-Semitism, ref1

  Aoife, Princess, ref1

  Aquitaine, ref1

  Arab chronicles, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Arabs, ref1, ref2

  customs of, ref1

  archers, ref1, ref2, ref3

  at Agincourt, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  archery practice, ref1

  Armagnacs, ref1

  armies

  Chinese, ref1

  cruelty of, ref1

  Danish, ref1

  Egyptian, ref1

  Henry V’s, ref1

  increasing size of, ref1

  Mercian, ref1

  Mongol, ref1

  Muslim, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Norwegian, ref1

  recruitment of criminals, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Scottish, ref1

  training in, ref1

  armour, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Arnald Amalric, archbishop of Citeaux, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Arnold, Benjamin, ref1

  Arouille, ref1

  arson, ref1, ref2, ref3

  arsonists, ref1

  Arthur of Brittany, ref1

  Ascalon, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Ashingdon, battle of, ref1

  Asia Minor, ref1

  Assize of Arms, ref1

  Athanasius, Bishop, Duke of Naples, ref1

  Atlantic Ocean, ref1

  Auberoche, ref1

  Audley, Lord, ref1, ref2

  Aumale, ref1

  Auno, ref1

  Austregisel, ref1, ref2

  autophagy, ref1

  Avignon, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  axes, ref1, ref2

  Baginburn (Dun Domhnaill), ref1; see also Waterford

  Baha al-Din, ref1, ref2

  Bait al-Ahzan, ref1

  Baldwin, Count of Flanders, ref1

  Baldwin of Boulogne, ref1

  Balian of Ibelin, ref1, ref2

  Balkans, ref1

  ballistae, ref1, ref2

  Baltic, ref1

  Bannockburn, battle of, ref1, ref2

  Baraz, Daniel, ref1

  Barber, Richard, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Barnie, John, ref1

  Barnwell chronicle, ref1

  Bartlett, Robert, ref1

  Barton, Richard, ref1

  Basin, Thomas, ref1

  batailles, ref1

  battle, trial by, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  battles, ref1, ref2, ref3

  bravery in, ref1

  cavalry and infantry in, ref1, ref2

  confusion in, ref1, ref2, ref3

  death rates in, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  and discipline, ref1

  and loyalties, ref1

  and non-combatants, ref1

  rarity of, ref1

  and risk of captivity, ref1

  uncertainty of, ref1

  tactical units, ref1

  Bavaria, dukes of, ref1

  beating, ref1, ref2

  Becket, Thomas, see St Thomas Becket

  Bedford, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Bek, Anthony, bishop of Durham, ref1

  belfries, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Belgium, ref1

  Bellac, ref1

  Bellême, William de, ref1

  bellum hostile, ref1

  Belsen, ref1

  Belvoir, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Benedictines, ref1

  benefit of clergy, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Benevento, battle of, ref1

  Bennett, Matthew, ref1, ref2

  Berlin, ref1

  Bernard, Archbishop, ref1

  Berthold, ref1

  Bertran de Born, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
r />   Bertrand of Blancfort, ref1

  Berwick, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  bestiality, ref1

  Béziers, siege of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  bishop of, ref1, ref2

  casualty figures, ref1

  churches in, ref1

  Bible, ref1, ref2, ref3

  King James, ref1

  see also Book of Deuteronomy; Book of Revelation; Gospel of Matthew

  Bixen, bishops of, ref1

  Black Death, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  blasphemy, ref1, ref2, ref3

  blinding, ref1, ref2

  Bloch, Marc, ref1

  blockades, ref1, ref2

  ‘blood eagle’, ref1

  Blount, Sir Walter, ref1

  bodkin arrows, ref1

  Bogis, Peter, ref1

  Bogomils, ref1

  Bohemond of Taranto, ref1

  boiling, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Bologna, ref1

  Boniface, Pope, ref1

  Book of Deuteronomy, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Book of Revelation, ref1

  Bordeaux, ref1

  Bosworth, battle of, ref1

  Boucicaut, Marshal, ref1, ref2

  Boulogne, Count of, ref1

  Bourbon, Duke of, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Bourges, ref1

  Bouvines, battle of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Bovet, Honoré de, ref1

  boys, ref1, ref2

  Bracton, Henry, ref1

  Bram, ref1

  Brandenberg, margraves of, ref1

  branding, ref1

  Bremen, bishops of, ref1

  Brémule, battle of, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Brescia, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Breughel, Pieter, ref1

  Bricstan, ref1

  brigands, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Brissac, battle of, ref1

  Brown, R. Allen, ref1

  Browning, Christopher, ref1

  Bruce, Robert, ref1

  Bruges, ref1, ref2

  Brundage, James, ref1

  Brunechildis, ref1

  Brunswick, dukes of, ref1

  Brut chronicle, ref1

  Budde, Martin, ref1

  Bulgaria, ref1

  Burchard, ref1

  burial alive, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Burke, Joanna, ref1

  burning, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Bury St Edmunds, ref1

  Byzantine empire, ref1

  Cadoc, ref1

  Cadwalla, King of Wessex, ref1

  Cagnoli, Gerard, ref1

  Cairo, ref1

  Calais, ref1, ref2

  Burghers of, ref1, ref2

  siege of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  call-ups, ref1, ref2

  Cambrai, ref1, ref2

  Cambridge, John, ref1