INDEX. 521 Military Orders of Castile, i. 209. Or- der of St. Jago, or St. James, of Com- postella, aiO; of Calatrava, 212, 215; of Alcantara, 213, 215. Their refor- mation, 217. Military service, exacted by the Koran, I. 271. Remarlis on, iii. IGO. Gon- salvo s reform of the, 161. Military tactics in Italy, ii. 278. Mihtia, discipline of the, i. 395. Organi- zation of, II. 340. Mineral wealth of Spain, i. 231. Ministers, resident, first maintained at foreign courts by Ferdinand the Cath- olic, I. 352. MinturnaB, the ancient city of, iii. 123, note. Miracle of the sun standing still, at the storming of Oran, iii. 307, note. Moclin, meeting of Ferdinand and Isa- bella in the camp before, i. 401. Modern Inquisition, turned against the Jews, I. 244. Authorized in Castile, 248. Put into operation at Seville, 250. Its sanguinary character, 252. Its final organization, 255. Forms of trial by the, 255; torture, 257. lis injustice, 259. The autos da fe, 2G0. Convictions under Torquemada, 2(54. Particulars respecting its introduction into Aragon, ii. 6; remonstrance of the cortes, 7; conspiracj', 8 ; assassi- nation of Arbues, 9; cruel persecu- tions, 10. Established throughout Ferdinand's dominions, 11. Remarks on its establishment in Spain, iii. 190, 491. Subsequent troubles from the, 249. Ferdinand's conduct in regard to the, in Aragon, 393, note. Effects of the, 492. Number of victims of the, 492, note. See Ancient Inquisition. Mola di Gaeta, action at the bridge of, in. 142. Moldenhauer, professor, his visit to Al- cala, respecting the manuscripts used in the Complutensian Polyglot, in. 32.5, note. Molucca Islands, congress respecting the, n. 182, note. Monasteries, their corrupt state, ii. 382. Attempts at reform in, 383, 392. VOL. III. m Monastic orders, Ximenes attempts to reform the, ii. 392. Great excitement among them, 392. Montalvo, Alfonso Diaz de, his work, entitled " Ordenan^as Reales," i. 198. Author of other works, in. 450, note. Montilla, demolition of the castle of, in, 289. Jlontpensier, duke of, left as viceroy of Charles XII. at Naples, n. 299; his disasters there, 312. Besieged at Atella, 317. His capitulation, 323. His death, 325. Moorish minstrelsy, n. 218. Its date, 221. Its high repute, 222. floors, religious toleration of the, i. xxxiii. Their refinements and attain- ments, xli. Crusade against, under Henry IV., of Castile, 65. Papal in- dulgences for the prosecution of the war against them, 69. Their deport- ment toward the Jews, 236. Their conquest of Spain, 272. Their policy towards the conquered, 273. Their intermarriages, 274. Checked by the defeat at Tours, 275. Their form of government, 275. Character and edu- cation of their sovereigns, 27G. Their military establishment, 277. Sumptu- ous public works of the, 277. Hus- bandry and manufactures among them, 281. Their high civilization and pros- perity, 283. Their literature under Alhakem II., 284. Intellectual devel- opement among them, 285. Contrac- tion of their dominion, 287. Recipro- cal civilities between them and the Spaniards, 293. Their gallantry, 294 Their ballads or romances, 294, 306. Their chivalrous character, 295. Their successful resistance in Granada, 297. Literature of the, 299. Their histori- cal merits, 304. Their useful discov- eries, 305. Impulse given by them to Europe, 306. Their elegant literature, 306. Poetical character of the, 308. Their influence on Castilian litera- ture, 310. Circumstances prejudicial to their literary reputation, 311. Sur- prise Zahara, 317. Their reception of the Spanish at Alhama, 324. Be-
