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INDEX
681
  • Villeins, 237, 254, 337, 480, 486, 523-24
  • Vilna, 552
  • Vinci, Leonardo da, 602, 605-06
  • Vinland, 223, 230, 395
  • Virgate, 235
  • Virgin, the, 624; and see Madonnas
  • Visconti, House of, 580
  • Visconti, Bianca, 580
  • Visconti, Gian Galeazzo, 590
  • Visconti, Valentine, 636
  • Viscount, 269
  • Visigoths, see West Goths
  • Vision of Piers the Ploughman, 516-17, 562-65
  • Vistula River, 17, 42, 139, 308, 544
  • Vita Nuova, 411, 415
  • Viterbo, 464
  • "Voices," of Joan of Arc, 528
  • Volga River, 17, 58, 549, 556
  • Vosges Mountains, 12, 17, 88, 166
  • Voyages of Discovery, 394, 609-14, 633
  • Vulgate, 113, 593
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  • Wager of battle, 51, 205, 469, 497
  • Wages, 498, 516, 523
  • Waiblingen, 350
  • Waldensians, 443, 448, 450
  • Waldo, Peter, 443, 450
  • Wales, 12, 29, 164, 167, 222, 398, 406, 484, 487-88, 519; and see Welsh
  • Walid, Caliph, 180.
  • Wallace, Sir William, 488
  • Wallachia, 140, 453, 554, 556, 558
  • Walled towns, 24; gates, 33; Rome walled again, 54, 226-27; barbarian invaders, and, 83, 91, 135, 152, 179; medieval, 315, 327, 329-30, 337, 367-69, 451, 494, 505, 518, 578, 629
  • Walloons, 269
  • Walsingham, 368
  • Walter of Brienne, 466
  • Walter the Penniless, 315
  • Walther von der Vogelweide, 406
  • Wapentake, 221, 478
  • Wardship and marriage, 243, 257, 277, 480
  • Warfare, and history, 2, 5, 9; and geography, 12; and citizenship, 26; Roman, 28 ; among early Germans, 43, 46-47, 127; of mounted nomads, 57; early Christian opposition to, 104; Mohammedan, 176; chief pursuit of Charlemagne, 199; feudal, 249-52, 256, 274; crusades, 315, 324; interurban in Italy, 348, 576; literature of, 400, 402; of Philip Augustus, 493; of the fourteenth century, 531; of the Hussites, 570; of the condottieri, 576-77, 580; and see Army, Invasions, Knights, Mercenaries, Private War

  • Wars of Religion, 339, 544
  • Wars of the Roses, 614, 628-29
  • Warwick, the King-Maker, 628
  • Welf, House of, 349-50
  • Welsh dialect, 398
  • Welsh people, 434, 630
  • Wends, 216, 228, 544
  • Wenzel, Holy Roman Emperor, 539, 553, 570
  • Wergeld, 47, 52, 123
  • Wessex, Kingdom of, 220
  • West Franks, 213, 219, 261, 266, 399
  • West Goths, 4, 55, 75-85, 87-90, 111, chap. vii, 128, 138, 149-50, 157, 160, 169, 178-79, 187, 554
  • West Indies, 610
  • Westminster, 476
  • Westminster Abbey, 430
  • Westphalia, 534, 539
  • West Prussia, 546
  • West Saxons, 202, 220
  • Wettin dynasty, 540
  • Whitby, Synod of, 167
  • White Huns, see Ephthalites
  • White Sea, 12, 17, 223
  • "White Shirt" (Greenland), 223
  • Widows, 46, 92, 173-74; feudal, 243, 270-71, 491; of gild members, 331; 515
  • Widukind, 375
  • Will, see Langland
  • William I, or the Conqueror, King of England, 246, 270, 275-77, 292-93, 295, 312, 376, 459, 474, 477-79
  • William II, or Rufus, 293, 314, 380, 48c
  • William V, Duke of Aquitaine, 273
  • William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine, 272
  • William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, 405
  • William, Count of Holland, 470
  • William of Conches, 378-79, 384-85
  • William of Lorris, 405
  • William of Roches, 508
  • William of Rubruk, 393, 452
  • Willibrord, 167
  • Wills, 52, 294, 460
  • Winchester, 368; cathedral, 423
  • Windows, house-, 339, 369, 388; splayed,422 ; rose-, 428; lancet, 431; in Renaissance buildings, 600; and see Clear-story, Stained glass
  • Winfrith, see Boniface, St.
  • Wisby, 369, 543
  • Wissendi, 534
  • Witan, 222, 276
  • Witchcraft, 528-29, 534
  • Wittelsbach, House of, 539
  • Woden, 45
  • Wolsey, 530
  • Woman, position of, in Roman law,