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Cambridge University Press 0521362911 - The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume I - c.500-c.700 Edited by Paul Fouracre Index More information INDEX Aachen, Jews in 553 Aden, Christians in 322 ‘Abbasid historians 326–7, 344 Adogitti tribe, northern Scandinavia 500 ‘abbot’, use of term in Ireland 414 Adomnan´ 247, 250, 407, 408, 425 abbots, authority of 419, 706 as abbot of Iona 414, 460 ‘Abd al-‘Aziz, Muslim general 370 on abbots 420 ‘Abd al-Malik, Umayyad caliph in Cilicia 302, on curaghs 643 344, 572, 575 on kings 574, 589 coinage 583 Life of Columba 238, 419, 452, 454, 460 Abd al-Rahman III, emir of Cordoba´ 552 on Picts 458, 589 Abercorn, Pictish bishopric 460 and synod of Birr 587 Aberlemno stone, Fife 89 on trade 646 Abernethy, Pictish burial site 458 Adrianople, Slav advance on 115 Ablabius, history of Goths 502 Adrianople, battle of (378) 24, 48 Abraha, Abyssinian adventurer 322 Adrianopolis, province of 543 Abraham, father of the Arabs 324 Adriatic, Avar-Slav raids 539 Abraham, Jew of Saragossa 566 Aed Dub of the Dal´ nAraide, Ulaid overking 242 Abu Bakr, first caliph 337, 341 Aed mac Ainmere of the Cenel´ Conaill 243, 244 Abu Lahab, uncle of Muhammad 332 Aedan´ mac Gabrain´ of Dal´ Riada 243, 244, 250, Abu Talib, uncle of Muhammad 331, 332 262 Abundancio, Frankish general 353 Aega, mayor of the palace in Neustria 384 Abydos, port (Hellespont) 630 Aegidius, Gallo-Roman magister militum in Abyssinia 321, 322, 332 Gaul 196, 669 Acacian schism 95, 97, 122, 677, 695 Ælfflaed, abbess of Whitby 482 Acacius, patriarch of Constantinople 95, 98 Æthelbald, king of Mercia 467, 604 Henoticon (482) 580 Æthelberht, king of Kent 465, 480, 484 acarius, financial administrator in Roman and conversion to Christianity 715, 730 church 679 law code 283, 478, 484, 491, 599 acheiropoeita (miraculous icons) 780 marriage to Frankish princess 472, 479, 484 Achila, claimant to throne of Visigothic Spain Æthelburh, wife of Edwin 480 368, 370 Æthelfrith, king of Bernicia 250, 465, 472 Achttienhoven, church at 720 Æthelred, king of Mercia 466, 482, 574 acolytes, status and role of 689, 690 Æthelthryth, wife of Ecgfrith of Northumbria Acra, on Danube 539 482, 490 Adalbert, heretical cleric 729 Æthelwealh, king of Sussex 467, 492 Adalbert of Prague 732 Aetius, Roman general Adalgisel, Frankish duke 385 Frankish support for 196 Adaloald, son of Agilulf 714 gift to Thorismund 774 Adam of Bremen, History of the Bishops of Africa see North Africa Hamburg 720 Africans, Roman view of 38 911 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521362911 - The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume I - c.500-c.700 Edited by Paul Fouracre Index More information 912 Index afterlife Sarmatian, Black Sea steppe 527 in Norse mythology (Other World) 510, 514 settled in Valence 49 association with transitional zones 516 Alaric the Visigoth 49, 121, 667 pagan tradition 727 Alaric II, king of the Visigoths 171–4 Agali monastery, Toledo 752 and Catholics 173 Agapetus, pope 125, 744 death 174 Agathias, as historian and poet 65, 95, 129 as legislator 173, 597 Agatho, pope 302 Alban, Saint 486, 710 Agde (Agatha), Council of 173, 687, 688 Albi, counts of 224 Aghagower, Ireland, episcopal church 412 Albinus, consul under Theoderic 147 Agila, king of the Visigoths 182, 183 Alboin, king of the Lombards 112, 152–3 Agilbert, bishop, sarcophagus at Jouarre Alcuin, Life of Willibrord 720, 721, 723 765 Aldfrith, king of Northumbria 449, 460, 482, Agilbert, bishop in Wessex 473, 481 493, 574 Agilolfings, dukes of Bavaria 222 Aldhelm, bishop of Malmesbury 449, 707, 755 Agilulf, king of the Lombards 155, 230, 378, 594, writings 494 600 Aldwich (Lundenwic) 492 Arianism of 714 Aldwulf, king of East Anglia 574 Agiulf, king of the Sueves 165 Alet (St Malo), Brittany 442 Agnellus, bishop of Ravenna 768 diocese of 443 Ago, king of Lombards 378 trade routes from 650 Agobard of Lyons 561, 564 Alexander of Tralles, doctor 119 Agricola, emperor 233 Alexandria agriculture centre of scholarship 23, 104, 744 Arabia 317, 318 falls to Arabs 298, 338 Celtic kingdoms 234 Narses’ expedition to 101 late Roman farms 26–7 port of 628 Scandinavia 521 Alexandria, church of Wales 253 parish organisation 686 Agrigent, Sicily, Jews in 550 trading contacts 605, 617, 627 Aguntum (near Lienz) 538 Alexandrian system, for dating Easter 415 Aicharius, bishop of Noyon 733 Alexandrian World Chronicle, illuminated Aidan, bishop 420 manuscript 783 mission to Northumbria 447, 457, 481, 731 ‘Ali, son-in-law of Prophet Muhammad, fourth see also Lindisfarne caliph 299, 301, 341, 342 Ainmere of Cenel´ Conaill 242 almshouses, supported by bishops 216 airchinnech (church head), Ireland 418 altars, portable 442 Airgialla Altfrid, Vita Liudgeri 649 Irish tribal grouping 241, 588n Altino, Lombards and 157 overkings 244 Amalaric, king of the Visigoths 174, 175, 177–8, Aistulf, king of the Lombards, portrait on coins 668 663 assassination 178 Ajax, Arian bishop 166, 712 marriage to Frankish princess 200 Ajnadayn, battle of (634) 338 Amalasuentha, daughter of Theoderic, wife of Alamanni Eutharic 125, 130, 148–9, 175, 200 Franks and 377, 393 Amali, Ostrogothic royal family 502 overkingship 46 Amandus, Christian missionary 717, 731, 733 ruled by ‘dukes’ 573 Amaya, Cantabria 185 tribal confederation 45 amber 650, 658 on upper Rhine 197, 200 beads, trade in 285 Alamannia, under control of Austrasian Franks Ambrosius Aurelianus, Romano-British leader 50 202, 222 Amida, frontier city 96 Alans Amiens, port 656 on Danube 533, 535 Ammianus Marcellinus 39, 43, 593 invasion of Gaul (406) 49, 712 as historical writer 65 in North Africa 118 on Persians 38 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521362911 - The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume I - c.500-c.700 Edited by Paul Fouracre Index More information Index 913 Ammonius Saccos 33, 107 relations with Franks 472–4 Ampelius, vir illustris 176 relations with Irish 472 amphitheatres, significance of 600 relations with Picts 250, 451 amphorae 608, 612, 633 scale of invasions 267–8 in Crypta Balbi assemblages 634 in Scotland 451 imported (at Whithorn) 435 settlements 267, 273–6 production, eastern Mediterranean 612, 623 and Wales 254 types 623 see also Angles; Britain; England; Saxons eastern Mediterranean 632 Angouleme,ˆ taken by Clovis 197 Keay LII (southern Italy and Sicily ) 620 Anicia Juliana, patrikia of Constantinople 778, Late Roman Amphora (LRA): (type 1) 623, 783 624; (types 2 and 3) 623; (type 4) 612, church of St Polyeuktos 103, 778 623, 624; (types 5 and 6) 623; (type 7) 623 animal art, Scandinavian 504–8 ampullae 781 and cognitive structures 508–14 ‘Amr bin al-‘As, Muslim general 337, 338 gold bracteates 509–11 amulets 725, 782 and hidden meaning 509 Anastasiopolis (Dara), fortress of 96, 108, 113, 115 human features in 509 Anastasius, theologian 294 humans in animal form 511–14 Anastasius, emperor 93, 108, 119, 120, 149 Nydam style 505 coinage 663, 665, 667 Salin’s Styles I and II 277, 505 and Franks 122, 197 and transcendental metamorphosis 514 and Ostrogoths 120, 146 animals and popular unrest 96 as elements of personal names 595 religious policies 94, 97, 677 exported from England 493 Anatolia horses in graves 272, 272n Arab raids 298, 307 animism, Bedouin 320 Byzantine victory in 301 Anmchad of Kildare, archbishop of Leinster 423 repopulated by Slavs 299, 302 Anna, king of East Angles 473 Anatolikon thema 307 Annales Cambriae 238 Anatolius, calculation of Easter 415 annals anchorism 704 Celtic 238 Ancona, Italy, Jews in 549 as genre 66, 67–8 al-Andalus, Muslim Spain 339 Irish 401, 403, 455, 461 Andrew, Saint, relics 129 Welsh 238, 441 angelology 107 see also chronicles Angers, France, episcopal meeting (453) 441 Annals of Inisfallen 238 Angles 263, 268, 641 Annals of Metz 260, 371, 391, 393 and battle of Chester 254 Annals of Ulster 238, 240, 587 evidence of depopulation of homelands 268 Annegray monastery, Burgundy 709 identity as 469 annona (land tax) Anglesey 463 provision of 146, 151 Northumbrian raid on 254, 255 Roman Empire 20, 26 Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 66, 68, 238, 263, 283 under Lombards 157 on Romano-British towns 267 annona system Anglo-Saxons (the English) and commercial enterprise 616, 629 as Christian missionaries 717 and trade in foodstuffs 615 coinage 673 annonae (ration allowances), Byzantine conversion to Christianity 714–16 prefectures 304 and Dal´ Riada 244 anointing expansion into Celtic areas 261, 446 of kings 355, 360, 367, 603 furnished inhumations 55, 265, 269 of the sick 703 identity formation 263, 265, 268, 269–70 Ansbert, bishop of Rouen 392 kingship 573 Ansfled, wife of Waratto 392 in northern England 247 Ansfrid, a Lombard(?) 158 origin myths 502 Anskar, missionary in Sweden 719, 731 relations with British 446, 471–2 Ansovald, Frankish aristocrat 221 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521362911 - The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume I - c.500-c.700 Edited by Paul Fouracre Index More information 914 Index Anstrude, wife of Berchar 392 rise of 116, 139, 291, 315, 324–5 Antenor, governor of Provence 393 Roman view of 38 Antes (Antae) (Slavic group) 112, 134, 524, 530 see also Islam; Umayyad Empire in Balkans 536 Aragenses (Aregenses) mountains, Spain 185, 186 defeated by Avars 536, 539 Aramaic language, in Iraq 324 see also Penkovka Culture; Slavs Araxes valley 323 Anthemius, emperor of the West 168, 669 Arbeo, Lives of Emmeram and Corbinian 721 war with Visigoths 169, 170 Arbogast, count of Trier 193, 196 Anthemius of Tralles, architect 119,