518 index
massaria 194–95
mastic 141–42, 272–73
Mastichochoria 363
Mastropoulos 173
Masud II, sultan 414 n. 120
Matthew of Jesolo, Latin patriarch of
Constantinople 422
Matthew Paris 15
Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary 67–68
Mavrika 398–99, 408, 411–13
Maximos Chrysoberges 182
Maynfridus 233; see also Manfred of
Hohenstaufen
Mazarin, cardinal 298
Mazaris 315
Mediterranean 33, 66, 69, 176, 208, 212,
214–16, 275, 327, 336–37, 341–42, 348, 358,
406
Eastern 3, 6–7, 9–10, 13–14, 23, 38, 44,
63–64, 126, 180, 184–85, 204, 209–10,
211–13, 257, 263, 266, 273, 276–77, 280,
286, 325, 336, 342, 356, 367, 415–16
Southern 25
studies 333 and n. 18
Western 35, 213, 276, 351
Megara 154, 162, 387, 390–91, 412, 414–15, 429
Megaris 386, 390, 405–06
Mehmed II the Conqueror, sultan 6–7, 48,
271, 431
Menteshe, beylik of 41
Melfi 183
Melkites 182
Melos 159
mendicant orders 31, 166, 170–73, 326, 330,
347, 353 n. 79, 367, 400
Menidi, see Acharnes
Merbaka 366
mercenaries 5–7, 35, 58, 97 and n. 30, 98,
120, 177, 220, 426, 428–29
Merenta 391, 393, 405
Meshullam of Volterra 264
Mesogaia 382–83, 391, 405, 410 and n. 101
Mesopotam 247
Messara 93
Messenia 167, 199, 202, 206, 224, 309, 366,
419–20, 431
messeta 281
Messina 427
Metamorphosis, church in Koropi 414
Methana 369, 395
Methone 257; see also Modon
miaphysite 145
Michael II Komnenos Doukas, despot of
Epirus 223, 233–34, 237, 252; see also
Komnenos Doukas, dynasty
Michael VIII Palaiologos, Byzantine
emperor 4, 34, 116, 239, 317 n. 85; see also
Palaiologos, dynasty
Michael IX Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor
193; see also Palaiologos, dynasty
Michael Attaleiates 181
Michael Choniates 18, 154, 383–85, 404
Michael Pedhiotes 179
Michele Sanmicheli 348 n. 65
Michele Steno, doge 247
Middle East 8, 26, 342 n. 45
Mila 361
Milanese 50
military orders 20, 64, 101–02 and n. 37,
148, 166, 173–74, 176–77; see also Dragon,
order of; Knights; St John, order of;
St Sampson, order of; St Thomas of
Canterbury, order of
milites 75 and n. 4, 81, 85–86 and n. 19–20,
89, 96; see also feudatories
militia 85–86, 89–90, 340 n. 41; see also fief;
feudum
Milopotamo 268
mint 219–20, 222–26, 228, 231–35, 237–38,
240–50, 252–53
Mirabello 209, 268
Mistra 4, 6, 227–28, 252, 308, 325, 331,
340–41, 351, 357, 359, 363, 424, 427–28,
430–31
Despotate of 325, 367
Modon 3, 6–7, 63, 77–78 and n. 9, 81, 99
n. 32, 105, 126, 135, 152–53, 168, 186–89,
193–95, 199, 202–06, 209, 212–14, 227, 257,
263–64, 277, 280, 284, 327, 329, 341, 344,
420–21, 426, 431
Mohács, battle of 50
Molise 248
monasteries 74, 81, 87–88, 101–02, 145, 156,
163–69, 172, 180, 227, 282, 329, 337 n. 31,
359–60, 366, 372, 374–75, 386, 398, 403, 411,
415, 421