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Africa, Central, 282 Agathias, 354N69 Aght‛Amar, Church Of, 293 INDEX Aachen, 122, 123, 140 Africa, Central, 282 al-ʿAbbās, 110n96 Agathias, 354n69 Abbasids, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 292, 300, Aght‛amar, church of, 293 307n74, 500, 502n93 ʿahd, pledge, compact, covenant, 142 ʿAbdallāh b. ʿUthmān al-Wāthiqī, Abbasid Aḥmad al-Qalqashandī, Mamluk court court official, 150 scribe and scholar, 228 ʿAbd al-Malik, son of Marwān b. al-Ḥakam, Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Maqrīzī, Arab historian caliph, 90, 110 and scholar, 230 Abgar, king of Edessa, 343 Aḥmad, Mamluk emir, son of al-Malik Abraham, Old Testament patriarch, 108, al-Nāṣir Muhammad, 237, 238, 239 507 Akataleptos, monastery in Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī al-Masʿūdī, Arab Constantinople, 206 historian, 93, 95n33 Akner, monastery in Cilicia, 30, 319, 321, Abū Faḍl, son of Caliph al-Qādir, 150 322 and n115, 323, 324, 325 Abū Kālījār, nephew of the Buyid emir Alaric, king of the Visigoths, 71 Jalāl al-Dawla, 149, 151n25, 154 Albinus, citizen of Aphrodisias, 58n16 Abū l-Fatḥ Ayyūb, son of Sultan al-Malik Alduin, son of William IV Taillefer, 356 al-Kāmil, 252 Alemannia, 121 Abū Shujāʿ Muḥammad al-Rūdhrāwarī, Aleppo, 104, 247, 489 Arab historian, 145 Alexander the Great, 38n4, 399n29, Achaemenid, 8, 499 499n61, 500, 511 Acre, city on the Palestinian coast, 254, Alexandria, 212, 246 255 and n74, 256, 261, 262, 298 and n29, Alexios I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor, 305 12, 163, 166, 168, 171, 367, 492, 493, 494, Adalbert of Prague, saint, 126 495, 501, 510 Adam, 88, 101, 107, 108 and n88 Alexios II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor, Adam, Armenian prince, 321 164, 173, 174, 176, 177, 179 and n80, 180 Adela, mother of King Stephen of England, and n83, 182, 183, 185, 187 131 Alexios III Angelos, Byzantine emperor, Ademar of Chabannes, historian, 352 and 165, 179n80, 188, 189 and n116, 190, 195 n60, 61, 63, 355, 356 and nn76, 78, 360 and n142, 196, 198, 199, 200 and n162, al-ʿĀdil Kitbughā al-Manṣūrī, Mamluk 496 sultan, 243, 255, 256 and n77, 261 Alexios IV Angelos, Byzantine emperor, Adomnan, 98, 99, 101, 102 190, 200 and n163, 201, 277 Adrian, brother of Alexios I Komnenos, Alexios Komnenos, illegitimate son of 494 Emperor Manuel I Komnenos, 193 Adrianople, city in Thrace, 195n142, 217, Alexios Philanthropenos, 212n35 285n32, 509 Alexios V Doukas Mourtzouphlos, Adrianople, battle of, 287 Byzantine emperor, 190, 201, 286, Adrianople, Gate in Constantinople, 452n85 171n44 Alexios, protosebastos, nephew of Emperor ʿAḍud al-Dawla, Buyid emir, 146 Manuel I Komnenos, 174, 182, 422n20 adventus, 11, 30, 172, 338, 341 and n12, 13, Alexios, son of Emperor John II 342, 343, 344 and n27, 345, 349 and n52, Komnenos, 400n32, 410n56, 510 350 and nn54, 55, 351 and n56, 352, 354, ʿAlī al-Madāʾinī, Arab historian, 96 355, 356, 357, 358, 362, 364, 366, 367, ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib, Prophet Muhammad’s 422, 512 cousin, caliph, 24, 91, 92 Aethelstan, king of England, 382n107 ʿAlī b. Nāṣir al-Ḥusaynī, Arab historian, 145 566 index Allah, 142, 143, 151n24, 511n136 Anna of Hungary, Byzantine empress, 206 Alp Arslān, Seljuk sultan, nephew of Anna of Savoy, Byzantine empress, 27, 214, Ṭughril Beg, 146, 154, 155 215, 216 Amalasuntha, Gothic queen, 380 and n17 Ansgar, inhabitant of London 365, 366 Amalric I, king of Jerusalem, 201 Antalya, city in southern Asia Minor, 184 Amaury I, king of Cyprus, 298, 300, 307n69 anthypatos, title, 443n38, 446n54, 448, Amida, 468, 471 449n70 amīr al-muʾminīn, commander of the Antioch, 18, 59, 62, 64, 304, 306, 308, faithful, 91, 108 309n81, 347, 359, 512 amīr al-umarāʾ, chief emir in Baghdad, 143 Antonina, wife of Belisarios, 375, 376, 379, Amorians, 20 381, 383 Amphipolis, 425 Aphrodisias, city in southwestern Asia ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ, governor of Egypt, 92, 96 Minor, 58n16 anadendradion, an alley(?) in the Apollo, 42 Magnaura complex of Constantinople, apotheosis, deification, 45 475, 478, 479, 483 Apulia, 340 anakaristai, timpanists in the imperial ʿaqd, contract, agreement, 142 palace of Constantinople, 424n30 Aquitaine, 350, 351, 352, 354, 355, 356, 360 Anastasios I, Byzantine emperor, 23, 60 Arabia, Arabs, Arabian, Arabic, 12, 15, Andronikos Angelos, military commander, 18, 20, 23, 24, 33, 87, 88, 89, 91, 93, 94, 179 and n80, 180n83 95, 97, 100, 104, 105 and n78, 107, 108, Andronikos Doukas, Byzantine aristocrat, 109, 110, 141, 145, 147, 172, 199, 228, 254, 193n135 312, 434n6, 443 and n34, 445 and n47, Andronikos I Komnenos, Byzantine 446n54, 447n59, 457n105, 468, 469n11, emperor, 12, 26, 163, 164, 171, 173, 174 and 471, 484, 485, 489 and n8, 491, 503, n60, 175 and nn61, 62, 176, 177 and n69, 511n130 178 and n77, 179, 180 and n83, 181 and Archangel Michael, 32, 434 n87, 182, 183, 184 and n100, 185, 186 and archontes tou kouboukleiou, dignitaries in n108, 187, 188, 192, 193 and nn134, 135, the imperial palace of Constantinople, 194 and n135, 196, 197, 198, 199, 421, 422 449 n70. See also Imperial Chamber. Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine Arcruni, Armenian dynasty, 293, 297, 300, emperor, 206, 207, 208, 209n20, 210, 211, 303, 307 and n74, 326 212, 222n76 Arculf, Anglo-Saxon pilgrim, 98 Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine Argyrokastron, Silvercastle, mythical city emperor, 213, 215, 216n49, 413n63 in the Livistros Romance, 393, 394, 404, Andronikos Kontostephanos, military 409, 410, 413, 414, 415, 416 commander, 179, 180n83, 193n135 Ariadne, Byzantine empress, widow of Andronikos Lapardas, military emperor Zeno, 60 commander, 179, 184, 193n135 aristeioi stephanoi, crowns of valour, 346 Andronikos, saint, 440n28 aristeterion, room in the Great Palace, Andronikos, son of Emperor John II Constantinople 472, 479, 480, 481, 485 Komnenos, 510 Aristophanes, 378 Angeloi, Byzantine aristocratic family, 12, Arkadios, Byzantine emperor, 63, 205n7, 26, 163, 164, 180 and n83, 184, 187, 188, 481 193 and n132, 194, 196, 197 Arles, city in southern France, 354n69 Anglo-Saxons, 98, 367 Armenia, Armenians, Armenian, 15, 29, Angoulême, city in southwestern France, 30, 212 and n34, 291 and nn1, 2, 292 and 30, 355, 356 nn4, 6, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299 Anjou, province in northwestern France, and nn32, 35, 300, 301, 302 and n47, 304, 30, 308, 356, 359 and n93 305 and n64, 306, 307, 308, 309, 311, 312, Anna Dalassene, mother of Emperor 314, 315n97, 318, 319 and n106, 320 and Alexios I Komnenos, 496, 498n57 nn112, 113, 321, 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, Anna Komnene, kaisarissa, 165, 168n33, 393, 394 494, 496, 510 Armenian Patriarchate, Jerusalem, 300n38.
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