| Dál Riata (Dalriada), Irish kingdom of, 63, 82 |
| Dalmatia, 17, 28 |
| Damascus, 24, 245 |
| Damietta, siege of, 243 |
| Danelaw, 102 |
| Dante Alighieri ( 1265-1321), 236 -7, 328 |
| Deira, Anglian kingdom, 63, 84 |
| della Volta family, Genoese merchants, 215 |
| Demetrius, St, of Thessalonica, Christian martyr, 9 |
| Denifle, Heinrich, vii |
| Denis the Carthusian, 314 |
| Denmark, 75, 94, 108, 137, 163 |
| Desiderius, bishop of Cahors (d. 650), 87, 89 |
| Desiderius, king of the Lombards (d. 774), 95 |
| Deventer, 313 |
| Diocletian, Roman emperor ( 245-313), 25 |
| diplomacy, development of, 261 -2 |
| Dôle university, 319 |
| Dominic, St ( 1170-1221), 229, 307 |
| Dominicans, 189, 307 -8, 325 |
| Domnall Brecc, Irish king, 82 |
| Domnall mac Aedo, Irish king (d. 642), 82 |
| Donatello, Florentine sculptor ( 1386-1466), 274 |
| 'Donation of Constantine', 20, 272 -3 |
| Donatism, 40 |
| Donnán, abbot of Eigg (d. 617), 72 |
| Dorestad (Duurstede), ( Netherlands), 85, 101, 102 |
| Dublin, Viking settlement, 101, 103, 105 |
| Dubois, Pierre, French jurist (d.c. 1321), 288 |
| Dürer, Albrecht ( 1471-1528), 319 |
| East Anglia, Vikings in, 102, 118 |
| Ecgfrith, king of Northumbria, (d. 685), 80 |
| Eckhardt, Meister (c. 1260-1327), 313 |
| Ecloga law code, 36 |
| Edessa, 204, 205 -8, 209 |
| education, 49, 50, 51, 52, 96, 97, 269 -70, 273, 319 | see also literacy; universities |
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| Edward I, king of England ( 1239-1307), 283, 285, 295, 298, 324 |
| Edward III, king of England ( 1312-77), 298, 298 -9, 300, 304 |
| Edward IV, king of England ( 1442-83), 321 |
| Edward, son of Edward III, the Black Prince ( 1330-76), 289 |
| Edwin, king of Northumbria (c. 584-632), 73, 82, 83, 84 |
| Egbert, St ( 639-729), 80 |
| Egypt: | corn trade, 30 | | crusaders in, 244 | | Fatimid caliphate, 172, 175 | | monasticism in, 42 | | Monophysites in, 11, 40 | | Persians in, 10 |
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| Ehrle, Franz, vii |
| Eight Saints, War of the, 256 |
| Einhard (c. 770-840), biographer of Charlemagne, 94, 95, 97 |
| Ekkehard, margarve of Meissen (d. 1002), 142 -3 |
| El Cid ( Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar ( 1043-99), 190 |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine (d. 1204), 152, 159 |
| Elegius, bishop of Noyon (d. 660), 89 |
| Elias, abbot of La Cava (fl. 1087), 201 |
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