Letters of, Cassiodorus, 119, 124; Gregory the Great, 155; Gregory VII, 289; Psellus, 309; crusaders, 310; Gerbert, 375; Innocent III, 434, 454; Asiatic travelers, 550; Petrarch, 588, 596; and see Paston Letters
Letters of credit, 325, 355
Letts, 139, 532, 544
Levant, 401
Libraries, largest ancient, 22; monastic, 125, 163, 167, 375; Arabian, 182, 188-89; early medieval, 381; university, 391; Charles the Wise's, 521; Vatican, 574; effect of printing on, 594
Libyans, 79; and see Berbers, Moors
Liège, 270, 618; bishopric of, 365, 524, 618
Lille, 365
Limburg, Duchy of, 616
Limoges, 218, 366
Limousin, 272, 510
Lincoln, Abraham, 16
Lincoln Cathedral, 432
Lindisfarne, 166-67
Lippi, Fra Lippo, 598
Lisbon, 188, 366, 394, 610-11
Literary criticism, 590
Literature, 16; Arabian, 182; of feudalism, 251, 253, 327-28; and pope, 288; and crusades, 310; and towns, 328, 337, 364, 367, 37i; medieval, 325, chap. xxi, 434, 475, 515, 521,586; Renaissance, 576, 611, 626, 634; and see Greek, Latin, Patristic, Anglo-Saxon, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Provencal, etc.
Lithuania, 139, 544-46, 551-53, 568
Little Armenia, see Armenia
Liturgy, 374
Liutprand, King of the Lombards, 196-97
Liutprand, historian, 375
Liverpool, 220
Lives of Illustrious Men, 38, 597
Lives of the Painters, 597
Lives of the Saints, 109, 113, 116, 159, 170, 409, 432, 563