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Great Lives from History: The Middle Ages

Editor: Shelley Wolbrink, Drury University
ISBN: 978-1-58765-164-9
List Price: $175

November 2004 · 2 volumes · 1,263 pages · 8"x10"

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Great Lives from History: The Middle Ages
Table of Contents

Publisher's Note, ix
Contributors, xiii
Key to Pronunciation, xvii
List of Maps and Tables, xxv
Maps of the Middle Ages, xxvii

A
Pietro d'Abano, 1
`Abd al-Malik, 3
`Abd al-Mu'min, 6
`Abd al-Rahmān III al-Nāsir, 9
Peter Abelard, 13
Abū Hanīfah, 18
Abul Wefa, 21
Adam de la Halle, 24
Adrian IV, 27
Ĉthelflĉd, 30
Afonso I, 33
Ahmad ibn Hanbal, 36
`Alā'-ud-Dīn Muhammad Khaljī, 39
Saint Albertus Magnus, 42
Alboin, 45
Alcuin, 49
Saint Alexander Nevsky, 52
Alexander III, 56
Alfonso X, 59
Alfred the Great, 63
Alhazen, 66
Alp Arslan, 70
Amalasuntha, 75
An Lushan, 78
Blessed Angela of Foligno, 81
Fra Angelico, 83
Anna, Princess of the Byzantine Empire, 86
Anna Comnena, 89
Saint Anselm, 92
Saint Anthony of Padua, 95
Arnold of Villanova, 98
Arnolfo di Cambio, 102
Árpád, 105
Āryabhata the Elder, 108
al-Ash`arī, 111
Ashikaga Takauji, 115
Averroës, 118
Avicenna, 123

B
Roger Bacon, 127
John Ball, 130
Basil the Macedonian, 133
al-Battānī, 137
Baybars I, 139
Beatrice of Nazareth, 144
Saint Thomas Becket, 147
Saint Bede the Venerable, 150
Saint Benedict of Nursia, 153
Benjamin of Tudela, 157
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, 160
al-Bīrūnī, 163
Blanche of Castile, 166
Giovanni Boccaccio, 169
Boethius, 173
Bohemond I, 176
Saint Bonaventure, 180
Saint Boniface, 183
Boniface VIII, 186
Boris I of Bulgaria, 189
Henry de Bracton, 192
Brahmagupta, 195
Saint Brigit, 198
Robert Bruce, 200
Filippo Brunelleschi, 205
Leonardo Bruni, 208
Hubert de Burgh, 211
Jean Buridan, 215

C
Cĉdmon, 219
Canute the Great, 221
Giovanni da Pian del Carpini, 226
Casimir the Great, 229
Cassiodorus, 233
Saint Catherine of Siena, 236
Guido Cavalcanti, 239
Charlemagne, 242
Charles d'Orléans, 247
Charles Martel, 250
Charles the Bald, 254
Charles IV, 257
Alain Chartier, 260
Geoffrey Chaucer, 264
Chrétien de Troyes, 267
Christina of Markyate, 270
Christine de Pizan, 273
El Cid, 278
Cimabue, 282
Saint Clare of Assisi, 284
Saint Clotilda, 287
Clovis, 290
Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius, 294

D
Enrico Dandolo, 298
Dante, 300
David I, 304
David II, 307
Dhuoda, 310
Dionysius Exiguus, 313
Saint Dominic, 316
Donatello, 319
Du Fu, 322
Duccio di Buoninsegna, 326
John Duns Scotus, 329
John Dunstable, 333

E
Edward the Confessor, 337
Edward the Elder, 340
Edward I, 343
Edward II, 347
Edward III, 350
Egbert, 353
Eleanor of Aquitaine, 355
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, 359
Ethelred II, the Unready, 362
Jan van Eyck and Hubert van Eyck, 365

F
Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, 369
Jacqueline Félicie, 372
Firdusi, 375
Saint Francis of Assisi, 378
Fredegunde, 381
Frederick I Barbarossa, 384
Frederick II, 389
Jean Froissart, 392
Fujiwara Michinaga, 396
Saint Fulbert of Chartres, 399

G
Genghis Khan, 402
Geoffrey of Monmouth, 405
Gershom ben Judah, 408
Mahmūd Ghāzān, 411
al-Ghazzālī, 415
Lorenzo Ghiberti, 418
Giotto, 421
Gottfried von Strassburg, 423
Gregory of Tours, 426
Gregory the Great, 430
Gregory VII, 433
Gregory IX, 436
Guido d'Arezzo, 439
Johann Gutenberg, 441
Guy de Chauliac, 445
Gwenllian verch Gruffydd, 448

H
Hafiz, 451
al-Hallāj, 454
Harold II, 457
Harsa, 460
Hartmann von Aue, 463
Hārūn al-Rashīd, 467
al-Hasan al-Basrī, 471
Henry the Lion, 473
Prince Henry the Navigator, 477
Henry I, 481
Henry II, 483
Henry II the Saint, 486
Henry III, 490
Henry IV (of England), 493
Henry IV (of Germany), 497
Henry V, 501
Heraclius, 505
Saint Hilda of Whitby, 509
Hildegard von Bingen, 512
Hrosvitha, 516
János Hunyadi, 519
Jan Hus, 522

I
Ibn al-`Arabī, 526
Ibn Battūtah, 529
Ibn Gabirol, 532
Ibn Khaldūn, 536
al-Idrīsī, 539
Innocent III, 541
Innocent IV, 545
Saint Irene, 548
Isabella of France, 552
Saint Isidore of Seville, 555
Itzcóatl, 558

J
Abū Mūsā Jābir ibn Hayyān, 562
Jacopo della Quercia, 566
al-Jāhiz, 568
James I the Conqueror, 571
Joachim of Fiore, 575
Joan of Arc, 578
Jōchō, 581
King John, 584
John of Damascus, 587
Judah ha-Levi, 591
Julian of Norwich, 595
Justinian I, 598

K
Damia al-Kāhina, 604
Margery Kempe, 607
Khadīja, 610
Khosrow I, 613
al-Khwārizmī, 617
Kōbō Daishi, 620
Kōken, 623
Kublai Khan, 626
Lady Alice Kyteler, 629

L
Lalibela, 632
Francesco Landini, 635
Saint László I, 637
Leif Eriksson, 640
Leo IX, 644
Leonardo of Pisa, 648
Levi ben Gershom, 650
Li Bo, 653
Li Qingzhao, 656
Pietro Lorenzetti and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, 659
Louis the German, 662
Louis IX, 666
Saint Ludmilla, 670
Raymond Lull, 673

M
Ma Yuan, 677
Guillaume de Machaut, 679
Mahmūd of Ghazna, 683
Moses Maimonides, 686
Margaret of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, 689
Marie de France, 693
Simone Martini, 696
Masaccio, 699
al-Mas`ūdī, 703
Matilda of Canossa, 705
Mechthild von Magdeburg, 708
Mehmed II, 711
Melisende, 715
Mi Fei, 718
Minamoto Yoritomo, 721
Simon de Montfort, 725
Moses de León, 730
Muhammad, 733
Murasaki Shikibu, 738
Johannes de Muris, 741
Mansa Mūsā, 744

N
Nahmanides, 747
Alexander Neckam, 750
Nest verch Rhys ap Tewdwr, 753
Ngo Quyen, 756
Nichiren, 758
Nicholas of Autrecourt, 761
Nicholas the Great, 764
Nicholas V, 768
Nijō, 771
Nizām al-Mulk, 774

O
William of Ockham, 778
Odoacer, 782
Saint Olaf, 785
Olaf I, 789
Saint Olga, 792
Omar Khayyám, 795
Andrea Orcagna, 798
Osman I, 800
Otto I, 805
Ouyang Xiu, 808

P
Saint Patrick, 811
Paul of Aegina, 814
John Pecham, 817
Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt, 820
Pérotin, 824
Petrarch, 827
Philip the Good, 832
Philip II, 835
Philip IV the Fair, 839
Philippa of Hainaut, 842
Andrea Pisano, 845
Nicola Pisano and Giovanni Pisano, 847
Poggio, 850
Marco Polo, 853
Marguerite Porete, 856
Priscian, 859
Michael Psellus, 863
Jean Pucelle, 866

Q

R
Rabanus Maurus, 870
Rābi`ah al-`Adawiyah, 873
Rāmānuja, 876
Ratramnus, 879
Raymond of Peñafort, 881
al-Rāzī, 884
Raziya, 888
Richard I, 891
Richard II, 893
Cola di Rienzo, 897
Rollo, 900
Rudolf I, 904
Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, 908
Rurik, 911

S
Sa`di, 915
Saladin, 918
Salimbene, 921
Śankara, 924
Saxo Grammaticus, 927
Sei Shōnagon, 930
Sergius I, 933
Saint Sergius I, 936
Shōtoku Taishi, 940
Siger of Brabant, 942
Sima Guang, 945
Claus Sluter, 947
Snorri Sturluson, 950
Sorghaghtani Beki, 954
Stefan Dušan, 957
King Stephen, 960
Stephen I, 964
Su Dongpo, 968
Suger, 971
Suiko, 974
Sundiata, 977
Suryavarman II, 980
Sylvester II, 983

T
al-Tabarī, 988
Taira Kiyomori, 990
Taizong, 993
Queen Tamara, 998
Tamerlane, 1000
Tancred, 1003
Tāriq ibn-Ziyād, 1005
Theodora, 1008
Theodoric the Great, 1012
Theoleptus of Philadelphia, 1016
Theophanes the Confessor, 1020
Thomas à Kempis, 1022
Thomas Aquinas, 1027
Trotula, 1031
Wat Tyler, 1033

U
`Umar I, 1037
Unkei, 1040
Urban II, 1043

V
Valdemar II, 1047
Lorenzo Valla, 1049
Jean de Venette, 1053
Giovanni Villani, 1056
Geoffroi de Villehardouin, 1059
Vincent of Beauvais, 1063
Philippe de Vitry, 1065
Vladimir I, 1068

W
William Wallace, 1072
Walther von der Vogelweide, 1075
Wang Anshi, 1079
Wang Kŏn, 1081
Wang Wei, 1085
Wenceslaus, 1088
Rogier van der Weyden, 1092
Widukind, 1094
William of Auvergne, 1097
William of Auxerre, 1101
William of Moerbeke, 1105
William of Rubrouck, 1107
William of Saint-Amour, 1110
William of Saint-Thierry, 1114
William the Conqueror, 1117
Władysław II Jagiełło and Jadwiga, 1120
Wolfram von Eschenbach, 1123
Wu Hou, 1127
John Wyclif, 1130

X
Xia Gui, 1134
Xuanzang, 1136

Y
Yan Liben, 1140
Yaqut, 1143
Yo Fei, 1145
Yonglo, 1147

Z
Zeami Motokiyo, 1152
Zheng He, 1156
Zhu Xi, 1159
Jan Žižka, 1162

Rulers and Dynasties, 1165

Chronological List of Entries, III
Category Index, IX
Geographical Index, XV
Personages Index, XXI
Subject Index, XXXV


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