A Short History of the Middle Ages Fourth Edition

Meister Eckhart. See Eckhart
Meleager on a Roman sarcophagus (2nd cent.), 11 , 15 , 15 , 20 –21, 270 , 275 , 307
Melisende, queen of Jerusalem (r.1131–1152), 173
mendicants. See friars
mercenaries. See army/armies
Mérida, 72 , 93
Merovingians, 61 –64, 73 , 75 , 79
genealogy, 62
Methodius, 82
Mexico, 324
Michael III, Byzantine emp. (r.842–867), 82
Michael VIII Paleologus, Byzantine emp. (r.1259–1282), 243
Mieszko I (Poland) (r.c.960–992), 148
Mihna, 92
Milan, 4 , 11 , 135 , 164 , 167 , 169 , 210 , 250 , 297 , 306 –7
Edict of (313), 6 , 11
Milvian Bridge, battle of (312), 6
ministerials, 253 –54
minnesinger, 216
mints/minting. See economy, coins
minuscule. See script/scripts
Mirror of Virgins (Speculum Virginum), 192 , 307
Jael, Humility, and Judith, 192 , 193
missi dominici, 99 , 255
Moesia, 5
monasticism. See also individual monasteries, orders, and rules
Irish, 64
Templar, 173
money. See economy
Mongols, 241 –44, 257 , 284
Golden Horde, 243
Monologion (Anselm of Bec), 179
Monophysites, 8
Monte Cassino, 28
Montpellier, 178 –79
University of, 220
Moralia in Job (Gregory I), 74