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them from the secondary studies. The reader is encour- aged to follow the references internal to entries and marked by small cap ...
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A 3 Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle)Famous as the capital of CHARLEMAGNEand for its church, Aachen, or Aix-la- Chapelle, is situated to ...
4 al-Abbas ibn Abd al Muttalib town hall in 1267 on the site of Charlemagne’s old audience hall. The economy of the town was bas ...
Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan 5 some 60 miles away. At the same time their religious authority over what was becoming Sunni Islam grew ...
6 Abd al-Rahman I ibn Muawiya the KABA. Marwan died in Damascus in 684, and his son, Abd al-Malik, was proclaimed caliph in 685. ...
Abélard, Peter 7 Though Abd al-Rahman won some great victories, he suf- fered a serious defeat in 939 at the Battle of Siminicas ...
8 Abu Bakr, Caliph In 1122 Abélard’s abbot permitted him to establish a primitive hermitage on land between Provins and Troyes s ...
Abu Nuwas al-Hasan ibn Hani al-Hakami 9 (d. 738). After Hammad’s death, Abu Hanifah became his successor and gathered numerous d ...
10 Abyssinia Wine Song in Classical Arabic Poetry: Abu Nuwas and the Literary Tradition(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997); Ewald Wa ...
Adam of Bremen 11 idea of Christian unity. Thereafter the Holy See acquired a house behind Saint Peter’s Basilica for Abyssinian ...
12 Adelaide, Saint peoples. The chapter or book “A Description of the Islands of the North” is one of the best accounts of early ...
adultery 13 adolescence SeeAGING. adoptionism A heresy that appeared in the Iberian Peninsula in the early 780s, adoptionism mai ...
14 Advent risked introducing “clandestine” children conceived out- side the marriage into familial descent. In the 12th century ...
Africa 15 Further reading: Milton M. Gatch, Preaching and Theology in Anglo-Saxon England: Aelfric and Wulfstan (Toronto: Univer ...
16 Africa EGYPTand Sudan, participated in the classical world as highly developed Roman provinces. From the seventh century on, ...
aging 17 1997)]; Roland Oliver, ed., The Cambridge History of Africa,Vol. 3, From c. 1050 to c. 1600(Cambridge: Cam- bridge Univ ...
18 agriculture innocence, purity, and ignorance. That of childhood, ages seven to 14, was a moment of malleability, openness, ph ...
agriculture 19 for the white bread of lords gained ground accompanied by other cereals such as millet, spelt, rye, and sorghum f ...
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