Middle Ages

by Knight, Judson

• ISBN13: 9780787648596
• ISBN10: 0787648590
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Gale Group

Summary

Outlines major events throughout the world; profiles notable leaders, religious figures, authors, travelers, and others from Europe, the Islamic world, Asia, Africa, and the Americas; and offers excerpts from original sources.

Table of Contents

Volume 2 (J-Z)
Joan of Arc	191	(8)
William Wallace (box)	196	(3)
Justinian	199	(10)
Theodora (box)	204	(5)
Kublai Khan	209	(8)
Rabban Bar Sauma (box)	213	(4)
Leif Eriksson	217	(6)
Other Medieval Explorers and Geographers (box)	220	(3)
Moses Maimonides	223	(6)
Avicenna (box)	226	(3)
Mansa Musa	229	(14)
Harsha (box)	231	(4)
Mathematicians and Scientists
(Aryabhata, al-Khwarizmi, al-Razi, Alhazen, and Roger Bacon)	235	(1)
Two Great Byzantines (box)	236	(7)
Mohammad I Askia	243	(8)
Charles the Bold (box)	246	(5)
Montezuma I	251	(6)
Muhammad	257	(8)
Murasaki Shikibu	265	(8)
Giovanni Boccaccio (box)	266	(7)
Osman I	273	(8)
Balkan Heroes (box)	274	(7)
Pachacutec Inca Yupanqui	281	(8)
Jayavarman VII (box)	284	(5)
St. Patrick	289	(8)
A Gallery of Saints (box)	292	(5)
Marco Polo	297	(8)
Ibn Battuta (box)	302	(3)
Rabia al-Adawiyya	305	(8)
Julian of Norwich (box)	309	(2)
Joachim of Fiore (box)	311	(2)
Richard I	313	(8)
Saladin	321	(8)
Leaders of the First Crusade (box)	324	(5)
Shotoku Taishi	329	(6)
Toghril Beg (box)	331	(4)
T'ai Tsung	335	(8)
Two Other Dynasties, Two Other Families (box)	338	(3)
Emperor Tenchi and Fujiwara Kamatari (box)	341	(2)
Tamerlane	343	(6)
Vlad Tepes (box)	346	(3)
Thomas Aquinas	349	(8)
Some Notable Thinkers and Scholars of the Middle Ages (box)	352	(5)
Wen Ti	357	(8)
People Who Took Power from Outside (box)	360	(5)
William the Conqueror	365	(6)
Wu Ze-tian	371	(2)
Fredegund (box)	373
Index	xli