Commons, House of, 477, 483-86 , 501, 522-23 , 564
Communes, defined, 335, 360; Italian, 346-59, 363, 368, 389, 410-11, 463-64, 467-70, 473, 576-77; French, 357-63, 490-91, 494, 500-01; Flemish, 498; and civilization, 397, 417; of Netherlands, 617
Communication, 156-57, 203, 233; and see Roads, Travel
Communion in both kinds, see Utraquists
Comnenian dynasty, 310, 465
Companies, see Mercenaries
Compass, see Mariner's
Compensation, see Wergeld
Compiègne, 366, 521, 529
Compilations, Byzantine, 148; Arabian, 183; early medieval, 125; medieval, 397
Compostella, 188-89, 366, 456, 492
Concentric churches, 145, 147, 419
Conceptualists, 380
Conciliar movement, 572-74
Concordat of Bologna , 638
Concordat of Worms , 291
Condottieri , 576-77, 580
Conductores , 37
Conferences , of Cassian, in
Confessions , of Augustine, 96
Confession, 440-41, 495
Confirmation, 439, 564
Congo River, 609
Congregation of Cluny, see Cluny
Conrad I, King of the East Franks, 227-28, 262
Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor, 271, 285, 298
Conrad III, 320
Conrad IV, son of Frederick II, 323, 470
Conradin, 470-71
Consolamentum , 443
Consolation of Philosophy , 124-25 , 222
Consortorie , 348
Constance, Council of, 540, 567-69 , 572-73, 589
Constance, heiress of Sicily, 461
Constance, Lake o,f, 88, 167, 542
Constance, Peace of, 353, 468
Constantine the Great, 66, 71-72, 104-06 , 142, 233, 263
Constantine, usurper in Britain and Gaul, 79
Constantine VI, Byzantine Emperor, 207
Constantine VII, Porphyrogennetos , 229
Constantinople, 14, 71, 73, 76, 78-80, 82-87 , 90, 105, 121, 124, chap. viii , 154, 175-77, 179, 184, 196, 209, 224, 229, 268, 271, 308-10, 314-15, 321-24, 327, 341, 343,
375, 465-66, 548, 553-58 , 583, 590-91; Councils of, 134, 283, 452; Patriarch of, 107-09, 156757, 190, 195, 302, 466
Constantinus Africanus, 376-77, 379, 384
Constantius III, Roman Emperor, 81-83
Constitutional history, see Administration, Assemblies, Councils, Courts, Government, Kings, Law
Constitutions of Clarendon , 296-98
Consuls, Roman, 69, 86, 121; Byzantine, 141; of medieval towns, 347, 351-54, 357-58, 377
Contract, feudal idea of, 258
Contracts, 294
Convivio , 411
Copenhagen, University of, 546
Coptic, Church, 109, 177-78; language, 407
Corbeil, 497
Corbels, 247-48, 422
Cordova, 180, 182, 185-86 , 188-89, 200, 227, 302, 304, 309, 328
Corfu, 466
Corinth, 79; Isthmus of, 139
Cornhill, 516
Cornice, 600
Cornish dialect, 398
Cornwall, 398, 496, 537
Coronation, of Charlemagne, 208-09, 212, 215; of other emperors, 209-10, 261-62, 289, 350, 541, 548, 603; of the Dukes of Aquitaine, 272; of Peter II of Aragon, 455
Corpus Iuris , 143
Corsica, 118, 135-36, 155, 287, 313
Cortes, Spanish, 488-89 , 631
Cosmogony, Dante's, 412-13
Coster, 594
Costume, 12, 38, 43, 114, 126, 147, 161, 173, 186, 188, 253, 320, 334, 336, 364-65, 392, 449, 496, 603, 605, 607, 623-24; and see Vestments
Cotton, 186
Councils, of chiefs among early Germans, 48; Grand or Great, in Italian cities, 347; in French towns, 357-60; in Flemish towns, 365; English Great, 481-83; English Privy, 492; French, of State, 492; of regency, 494; of state and finance in Spain, 631; Venetian, of Ten, 581-82; of Forty, 581; Great or Grand, 581, 634
Count and County, 186, 193, 203, 205, 219, 221, 259, 264, 341, 346, 351, 364-65, 438, 488, 498-99, 507, 512-13, 524-25, 534, 624