Vienna, Æneas Sylvius's florid description of, iii. [345] [note] u.
Villani (John) falls a victim to the plague, i. 57 note.
Villeins and villenage: conditions of villeins, i. 199;
consequences of their marriage with free persons, 200, and 201 note b;
privileges acquired by them, 201, 202 and notes;
their obligations, 331;
their legal position in England, 333;
villenage never established in Leon and Castile, ii. 6;
question of its existence among the Anglo-Saxons, 276;
dependence of the villein on his lord, iii. [171];
condition of his property and children, [172] and [note] b;
legal distinctions, [172] and [notes];
difficulties besetting the abolition of villenage, [173];
gradual softening of its features, [174-176];
merger of villeins into hired labourers, [177];
effects of the anti-poll-tax insurrection, [181];
disappearance of villenage, [181], [182];
elucidatory notes on the subject, [260-264].
Virgin, absurd miracles ascribed to the, iii. [300] [note].
Visconti and Torriani families, rivalry of the, i. 409, 410;
triumph of the Visconti, 410;
their power and unpopularity, 411;
their marriages with royalty, 412 and note e;
tyranny of Bernabo Visconti, 439;
Giovanni Visconti's brutality, ib.;
his assassination, 466;
Filippo Visconti's accession, ib.;
his ingratitude to Carmagnola, ib.;
his mistrust of Sforza, 482;
his alliance with Alfonso, 492;
quarrels of the family with the popes, ii. 235.
Visigoths, portions of the Roman provinces possessed by the, i. 1;
conduct of their earlier rulers towards the catholics, 3 note f;
their mode of dividing conquered provinces, 146;
their laws, how compiled, 151, 152 note z;
difference between the Frank monarchy and theirs, ii. 1, 2.
Voltaire, limited knowledge of early French history by, i. 213 note p.
Wages, futility of laws for the regulation of, iii. [178].
See [Labourers].
Waldenses. See [Religious Sects].