Life in a Medieval City (33 page)

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Abélard, Peter, 174, 186

Accore, Renier, 107

Adelerin, abbot of St.-Loup, 32, 232

agriculture, 10, 11, 12, 191, 225–226

“aids,” 209–210

Albert the Great (Albertus Magnus), 55

Albigensians, 133–134, 197–198

Alcuin, 175

Alexander III, pope, 130

Alexander of Villedieu, 159, 240

Alexandria, 5

Amalfi, 10

America, discovery of, 227

Amiens, cathedral of, 137, 148, 238

Anségise, bishop of Troyes, 9, 13, 232

Antwerp, 227

apprentices, 43, 79, 80, 83, 90–93, 98, 102, 105, 212

Aquinas, Thomas, 132, 165

Arabic numerals (
see
Hindu-Arabic numerals)

architects (
see
builders)

Aristotle, 161, 165

arithmetic, 157, 161–162

armor, II, 79–80, 219

Arras, 7, 24, 31, 189, 201, 216, 227

Arsenal of Venice, 16

Arte di Calimala
, 103, 216

Arthurian romances, 167, 178

astrology, 59, 113, 161

astronomy, 161

Attila, 3, 32

Aurelian, Roman emperor, 1

Autun, 25

Auxerre, 23, 219

bishop of, 6, 156

Avignon, 4, 227

Pont d’, 25

“avoir de poids,” 217–219, 222

backgammon, 65

bakers, 49, 91, 191

Balearic Islands, 5

Balkans, 11

banking (
see
moneylending)

Bapaume, 23, 24

baptism, 61–62

Barcelona, 21, 24

Bardi company, 220, 225, 226

Bar-sur-Aube, 23, 24, 208, 211, 218, 219

Bartholomew Anglicus, 58, 115

bathing, 44

baths, public, 2, 32, 190

Beauvais, cathedral of, 148

belfry, 228, 233

bells, 46, 47, 143–144, 239

Benedictines, 4

Bernard of Chartres, 154, 159

Bernard of Clairvaux (
see
St.-Bernard)

betrothal, 70

Bible of Guiot, 177

birth defects, 58, 115

birth records, 62, 235

Black Death, 191, 226

Black Sea, 16

blacksmiths, 11, 79–80, 142

Blanche of Artois, 224, 231

Blanche of Castile, queen of France, 54, 131, 167–168

Blanche of Navarre, countess of Champagne, 54, 167, 231

Blois, 168

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 225

Bodel, Jean, 189

Boethius, 157

Boileau, Etienne, 235

Bologna, 21, 164, 206

University of (
see
University of Bologna)

books, 83, 171–182

bookstores, 175, 241

Bourbon-l’Archimbault, 242

Bourges, 225

bourg (burh, borough), 9

bread, 49, 191

Breteuil, Custom of, 19

bridges, 15, 25, 28

Brienne, Lord of, 191

Broce-aux-Juifs, Troyes, 33, 93–97

builders, 136–148, 152–153, 238, 239

butchers, 30, 48, 49, 89, 226

buttresses, 140, 147, 239

Caesar, Julius, I, 88

Cahorsin, 104, 207, 220

calculating board, 98–99, 163

calendars, 223, 244–245

canonization, 130, 238

Canterbury cathedral, 137, 192–193

Carcassonne, 195, 197–198

Carmelites, 131

Caroline minuscule (
see
lettering)

Carpathians, 11

cartwrights, 84–85

castle of the counts of Champagne, 32

Cathars (
see
Albigensians)

cathedrals, 135–153, 162

cathedral of St-Pierre and St.-Paul, Troyes, 33, 46, 135, 136, 138, 139, 148, 151, 190, 238

cathedral schools (
see also
education), 154–164

Cats’ Alley (
Ruelle des Chats
),

Troyes, 29, 30, 229

Châlons, 23, 201

Champagne, counts of (
see
names of individual counts)

Champagne, county of, 1, 6, 19, 23, 25, 100, 107, 167, 190, 191, 218, 222, 225

Champagne, Fairs of, 1, 12–14, 19, 23–31, 86, 106, 206, 208, 211–223, 224–226, 229, 243–244

routes to, 23–25; 24 (map)

charter, 18–19, 199, 202–203, 208

Charter of 1230, Troyes, 19, 201–203, 207–208

Chartres, 6, 159, 168

cathedral of, 82, 84, 85, 102, 113, 131, 136, 158, 159

cheese, 49, 219

chess, 63–65

childbirth, 58–61

children, 58–67

Chrétien de Troyes, 23, 68, 76, 167, 169, 178

church, 2, 120–134, 237–238

services, 120–126, 183–186

“churching,” 62–63

cider, 86

Cistercian order, 10, 153, 160

cité
, 2, 18, 32, 93, 95, 190

civitas
, 2

clepsydra (water clock), 47, 122, 234

clock, 47, 234

cloth, 9, 13, 23, 31, 98, 100–103, 215–216, 221, 225

standard bolt of, 216

Clovis, 4

Cluniac order, 10, 41, 153

Cluny, 35, 36, 414

coal, 79

coinage (
see
money)

Cologne, 12, 21, 24, 219

Columbus, 227

commenda
, 214

Commercial Revolution, 33, 228

commune, 17–19, 94, 136, 199, 200

oath of, 200

Constantine, 2, 126

Constantinople, 5, 10, 16, 126, 167, 217

coppers, 84–85

copyists, 83, 171–175

Cordova, 85

Cornwall, 11

corporation, 93, 199

cosmetics, 47

costume, 30, 37–38, 70

cotton, 216

court cases, 204, 243

Le Courtois d’ Arras
, 189.

courts, 199, 203–207

crafts (
see also
tailors, blacksmiths, goldsmiths, shoemakers, tanners, coopers, cartwrights, furriers, saddlemakers, weavers, fullers, dyers) 77–93, 236

crank, 144

credit (
see also
moneylending), 221–223

Crusades, 52, 53, 95, 106, 132, 167, 191, 194, 197, 207, 208–210, 225

Damietta, 209–210

Dandolo, Doge of Venice, 132

de la Halle, Adam, 65, 107, 242

demography (
see
population)

demons, 132

denier
(
see
penny)

denier de Provins
, 99, 220, 237

dialectic (
see
logic)

Dijon, 23, 71, 235

Disciplina Clericalis
, 233

diseases (
see also
Black Death), 114–119

divorce, 69

doctors, 60, 109–119, 237

Dominicans, 32, 129, 131, 134

Donatus, 159

Doré, Sire, 108

Douai, 31, 101, 209, 216, 227

dowry, 69

Dublin, 6

dyers, 103

dyes, 103, 219

Eberhard of Bethune, 159

Ebstorf Map, 240

écu
, 237

Edmund of Lancaster, 52, 224

education, 154–165

of women, 52–53

Edward I, king of England, 94, 237

Edward III, king of England, 226

Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of

France, later queen of

England, 54, 166–167, 231

ell, 216

encyclopedias, 161

Ericson, Leif, 227

Etienne, count of Chartres, Blois, and Brie, 13, 230

Etienne, count of Vermandois, 232

etiquette, 39–43, 56–57, 233

Euclid, 162

Eudes, count of Vermandois and Champagne, 13, 230

Everyman
, 243

Extenta terre comitatus Campanie et Brie
, 20, 243

extreme unction, 74

fabliaux
, 55, 178, 241–242

fairs (
see
Champagne, Fairs of)

famine, 190, 191, 225–226

farm implements, 10, 11, 88–89

fasting, 41

Feast of the Circumcision, 183–184

Feast of the Holy Innocents, 183

feudal charges (
see also
“aids”), 17, 18, 199, 202

fire, 12, 32, 135, 190, 192–193, 228

fish, 43

Flamenca
, 73, 178–182, 242

Flanders, 4, 12, 13, 19, 23, 25, 100, 101, 103, 191, 209, 213, 215, 219, 223, 225, 227

flax, 216

fleas (
see
vermin)

floods, 190, 191–192

Florence, 16, 21, 23, 24, 25, 103, 107, 215, 216, 220, 221, 222, 223, 225, 227, 245

Fourth Lateran Council (1215), 69

Franciscans, 32, 131

Franks, 3, 4, 18, 197

Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, 16

Frederick 11, Holy Roman Emperor, 22, 59, 95–96, 205

fullers, 102–103

funerals, 73–75

furniture, 37, 99

furriers, 82, 97, 162, 219

Galeran
, 53, 59, 178

games (
see
recreations)

gardens, 12, 28, 51–52, 234

garderobe (
see
sanitation)

Garin de Loherain, 211

Garnier de Traînel, bishop of Troyes, 128

gates of Troyes, 28

Gautier de Nemours, 65