FOOTNOTES
[1] Webster, Readings in Medieval and Modern History, chapter xvii, "Medieval Tales"; chapter xviii, "Three Medieval Epics."
[2] See pages 203, 322.
[3] The language spoken by the natives of Flanders. The country is now divided between France, Belgium, and Holland. See page 549.
[4] Icelandic is the oldest and purest form of Scandinavian. Danish and Norwegian are practically the same, in fact, their literary or book- language is one.
[5] Two names for rivers—Avon and Ex—which in one form or another are found in every part of England, are Celtic words meaning "water."
[6] See page 518.
[7] See page 309, note 1.
[8] See page 336.
[9] See page 386.
[10] See pages 284, 344.
[11] See page 283.
[12] The cathedral, baptistery, and campanile of Pisa form an interesting example of Romanesque architecture. See the illustration, page 544.
[13] The interior of King's College Chapel, Cambridge, shows the ribs and the beautiful tracery of the ceiling of a Gothic building. See the plate facin page 570.
[14] The flying buttress is well shown in the view of Canterbury Cathedral (page 324).
[15] See page 386.
[16] For the pointed arch see the view of Melrose Abbey (page 660).
[17] See the illustrations, pages 550, 551.
[18] See page 310.
[19] See pages 207, 331.
[20] See page 444.
[21] Latin universitas.
[22] See page 536.
[23] The method of the school (Latin schola).
[24] See pages 275 and 383.
[25] See page 618.
[26] See pages 133 and 608.
[27] See page 53.
[28] Greek oneiros, "dream."
[29] Greek nekros, "corpse."
[30] Charles Perrault's Tales of Passed Times appeared at Paris in 1697 A.D. It included the now-familiar stories of "Bluebeard," "Cinderella," "Sleeping Beauty," and "Little Red Riding Hood." In 1812 A.D. the brothers Grimm published their Household Tales, a collection of stories current in Germany.
[31] See page 420.
[32] Exodus, xxii, 18.
[33] See page 428.
[34] See page 346.
[35] The great Passion Play at Ober Ammergau in Germany is the modern survival and representative of this medieval religious drama.
[36] Everyman, one of the best of the morality plays, has recently been revived before large audiences.
[37] See the illustration, page 408.
[38] Tacitus, Germania, 22.