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The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000

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by Chris Wickham


  George of Pisidia, poet

  Gepids

  Gerald of Aurillac

  Gerasa, Jordan

  Gerberga, abbess of Gandersheim

  Gerberga, queen of the West Franks

  Gerbert of Aurillac

  Germani, Germania

  Germanic languages

  Germanos, patriarch of Constantinople

  Germans, Germany

  Germigny-des Prés, France

  Gerold, bishop of Mainz

  Gertrude, abbess of Nivelles

  Gerward, librarian

  Gewilib, bishop of Mainz

  Ghassanid family

  Ghaznavid family

  Ghent, Belgium

  Gibraltar, Straits of

  Gildas, historian

  Gisela, wife of Everard of Friuli

  Gisulf II, duke of Benevento

  Glamorgan, Wales

  Glasgow, Scotland

  Glewlwyd, door-keeper

  Gloucestershire, England

  Glywysing, Wales

  Gnëzdovo, Belarus

  Gniezno, Poland

  Goar, saint

  God ; see also Allah, Christ, Trinity

  Godin, son of Warnachar

  Gododdin, Scotland

  Godofrid, Danish king

  Gœrsdorf, France

  Goiswintha, Visigothic queen

  Gök Turks, see Turks

  Goltho, England

  Gorm, Danish king

  Gorodishche, Russia

  Gortyn, Greece

  Gorze, France

  Goslar, Germany

  Gothia, see Septimania

  Goths

  Gottschalk, theologian

  Gower, Wales

  Gozhelm, brother of Bernard of Septimania

  Great Army

  Great Palace, Constantinople

  Greece, Greeks

  Greek, language

  Gregory I (the Great), pope

  Gregory II, pope

  Gregory IV, pope

  Gregory V, pope

  Gregory VII, pope

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Gregory, bishop of Tours

  Gregory, exarch of Africa

  Greuthungi, Gothic tribe

  Grierson, Philip

  Grimbald of Saint-Bertin

  Grimoald IV, prince of Benevento

  Grimoald, Lombard king

  Grimoald, maior of Austrasia

  Gruffudd ap Llewelyn, Welsh king

  Guadalquivir, river, Spain

  Gualafossa family

  Gudme, Denmark

  Guðmund the Powerful

  Guilhelmid family

  Gulathing, Norway

  Gundiperga, Lombard queen

  Gundobad, king of Burgundy

  Gundovald

  Gundulf, duke

  Gunther, archbishop of Cologne

  Guntram Boso, duke

  Guntram, king of the Franks

  Guthrum, Viking ruler

  Guy of Spoleto, king of Italy

  Guy, count of Vannes

  Guy, marquis of Tuscany

  Gwent, Wales

  Gwrtheyrn, see Vortigern

  Gwrtheyrnion, Wales

  Gwynedd, Wales

  Gyrwa, England

  Hadrian I, pope

  Hadrian II, pope

  Hadrian’s Wall, England

  Hadwig, wife of Hugh the Great

  Hagano, counsellor of Charles the Simple

  Hagia Eirene, Constantinople

  Hagia Sophia, Constantinople

  Hagios Polyeuktos, Constantinople

  Hainmar, bishop of Auxerre

  Haiti

  Håkon I, king of Norway

  Hall of Sida

  Haman

  Hamdanid family

  Hampshire, England

  Hamwic, England

  Harald Bluetooth, Danish king

  Harald Finehair, Norwegian king

  Harald III Hardraði, Norwegian king

  Harald, ruler of Frisia

  Harold II Godwineson, king of England

  Harran, Turkey

  Harthacnut, king of England

  Harun al-Rashid, see al-Rashid

  Hashimiyya family

  Hastings, England

  al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, governor of Iraq

  al-Hakam I, amir of al-Andalus

  al-Hakam II, caliph of al-Andalus

  al-Hakim, Fatimid caliph

  Hebrides, Scotland

  Hector, patricius of Provence

  Hedeby, Germany

  Helena Lekapena, empress

  Helena, empress, mother of Constantine

  Heliodoros

  Helisachar, arch-chancellor

  Hell

  Hendy, Michael

  Henry I, king of the East Franks

  Henry II, emperor

  Henry III, emperor

  Henry II, king of England

  Henry VII, king of England

  Henry, count of Walbeck

  Henry, of the ‘Babenberger’ family

  Heorot, Denmark

  Heraclid family

  Heraclius, emperor

  Herakles

  Heremod, Danish king

  Heribert I, count of Vermandois

  Heribert II, count of Vermandois

  Herlihy, David

  Hermann Billung, duke of Saxony

  Hermann I, duke of Swabia

  Hermann II, duke of Swabia

  Hermenegild, son of Leovigild

  Herod

  Herodian

  Herodotos

  Heruls

  Hesiod

  Hesse, Germany

  Hetti, archbishop of Trier

  Hierapolis, Turkey

  Hiereia, Turkey

  Hierissos, Greece

  Hild, abbess of Whitby

  Hildesheim, Germany

  Hilduin, abbot of Saint-Denis

  Himerios, chartoularios

  Hincmar, archbishop of Reims

  Hincmar, bishop of Laon

  Hippo, Algeria

  Hippodrome, Constantinople

  Hisham, caliph

  al-Hisham II, caliph of al-Andalus

  Hitler, Adolf

  Hlaðir, jarls of

  Holy Sepulchre, church of, Jerusalem

  Homer

  Honorius, emperor

  Horic I, king of Denmark

  Horic II, king of Denmark

  Hornbach, Germany

  Hospicius, hermit

  Hraban Maur, abbot of Fulda

  Hrothgar, Danish king

  Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim

  Hubert, brother of Theutberga

  Hubert, marquis of Tuscany

  Hugeburc, hagiographer

  Hugh Capet, king of the West Franks

  Hugh of Arles, king of Italy

  Hugh of Lusignan

  Hugh the Great, duke of Francia

  Hugh, count of Tours

  Hugh, son of Lothar

  Humber, river, England

  Huneric, king of the Vandals

  Hungary, Hungarians

  Huns

  Huntingdonshire, England

  Hunus, servant of Hilduin

  Hurstborne Priors, England

  al-Husayn, son of ‘Ali

  Hwicce, England

  Hydatius, bishop of Chaves

  Hypatia, Alexandrian intellectual

  Hywel Dda ap Cadell, Welsh king

  Iberian peninsula; see also Spain, Portugal

  Ibn al-Muqaffa‘

  Ibn al-Qutiya, historian

  Ibn al-Zayyat, vizir

  Ibn Hanbal, jurist

  Ibn Hawqal, geographer

  Ibn Hayyan, historian

  Ibn Ishaq, historian

  Ibn Khurradadhbih, geographer

  Ibn Sina, philosopher-physician

  Ibrahim, caliph

  Iceland

  Iconoclasts, Iconoclasm

  Iconophiles

  Ida, daughter of Herman of Swabia

  Idris ibn ‘Abd Allah

  Idrisid
kingdom, Morocco

  Ifriqiya, Tunisia/Algeria

  Ignatios the Deacon

  Igor, prince of the Rus

  Ikhshidid dynasty

  Ilduara

  Illtud, saint

  Illyricum

  Imma, Northumbrian aristocrat

  Imma, wife of Einhard

  India

  Indian Ocean

  Ine, king of Wessex

  Ingelheim, Germany

  Iigo Arista, ruler of Pamplona

  Innes, Matthew

  Iona, Scotland

  Ipswich, England

  Iran ; see also Persia

  Iraq

  Ireland, Irish

  Irish Sea

  Irish, language

  Irminsul, Saxon cult site

  ‘Isa al-Razi, historian

  Isauria, Turkey

  Isaurian family

  Ishaq ibn Ibrahim

  Isidore of Miletos

  Isidore of Seville

  Islam

  Shi‘a

  Sunni

  Isle of Man

  Isma‘ilis

  Israel

  Istanbul, Turkey; see also Constantinople

  Istria, Slovenia/Croatia

  Isztván I, king of Hungary

  Italy ,

  Byzantine

  Lombard

  Ívar, ruler of Dublin

  Ivrea, Italy

  Izmir, Turkey

  Iznik, Turkey

  Ja‘far, son of Yahya ibn Khalid ibn Barmak

  Jacob the Jew

  James, saint

  Japan

  Jarrow, England

  Jawhar, Fatimid general

  Jazira, Syria/Iraq

  Jelling, Denmark

  Jeme, Egypt

  Jerash, see Gerasa

  Jericho, Palestine

  Jerome, writer

  Jerusalem, Israel/Palestine

  Jews, Judaism

  John Cassian

  John Chrysostom, patriarch of Constantinople

  John I Tzimiskes, emperor

  John Kourkouas

  John Lydos

  John of Biclar, historian

  John of Damascus

  John of Ephesos

  John the Cappadocian, praetorian prefect

  John the Scot

  John VIII, pope

  John X, pope

  John XII, pope

  John XIII, pope

  John XV, pope

  John, abbot of Gorze

  John, bishop of Chalon-sur-Saône

  John, duke of Istria

  John, hermit of Gaza

  John, Parisian merchant

  Jordan

  Jordan, river, Palestine/Jordan

  Joseph ibn Ya‘qub ibn ‘Awkal, merchant

  Josseran of Uxelles

  Judith, daughter of Charles the Bald

  Judith, empress

  Julian, emperor

  Julius Nepos, emperor

  Justinian I, emperor

  Justinian II, emperor

  Jutland, Denmark

  Juvenal, patriarch of Jerusalem

  Kairouan, Tunisia

  Kalb, Arab tribe

  Karbala’, Iraq

  Karol, son of Liutprand

  Kayseri, Turkey

  Kenneth I mac Ailpín, see Cinaed mac

  Ailpín

  Kenneth II, king of Scotland

  Kent, England

  Kharijites

  Khayzuran, mother of Harun al-Rashid

  Khazars

  Khirbat al-Mafjar, Jericho

  Khirbat al-Mird, Israel

  Khumarawayh, ruler of Egypt

  Khurasan, Iran

  Khusrau II, shah of Persia

  Kiev, Ukraine

  Kildare, Ireland

  Kirchheim, Germany

  Kom Ishqaw, see Aphrodito

  Kootwijk, Netherlands

  Krum, khagan of the Bulgars

  Kufa, Iraq

  Kurds

  Kutama, Berber tribe

  Kynegion, Constantinople

  Laguatan, Berber tribal alliance

  Lake Constance, Germany/Switzerland

  Lakhmid family

  Lambert of Spoleto, emperor

  Lambert, marquis of the Breton march

  Lancashire, England

  Landibert, bishop of Maastricht

  Languedoc, France; see also Septimania

  Laon, France

  Latin, language

  Lauchheim, Germany

  Lazio, Italy

  Le Jan, Régine

  Le Mans, France

  Lebanon

  Leeds, England

  Leicester, England

  Leinster, Ireland

  Leitrim, Ireland

  Lekapenos family

  Leo Choirosphaktes

  Leo I, emperor

  Leo III, emperor

  Leo IV, emperor

  Leo V, emperor

  Leo VI, emperor

  Leo I, pope

  Leo III, pope

  Leo IV, pope

  Leo the Mathematician

  Leo, bishop of Synnada

  Leo, brother of Romanos

  Leofwine, Anglo-Saxon aristocrat

  León

  Leovigild, Visigothic king

  Leudast, count of Tours

  Leudegar, bishop of Autun

  Levant; see also Syria, Palestine

  Libanios, Antiochene intellectual

  Libya

  Lichfield, England

  Liège, Belgium

  Limerick, Ireland

 

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