With these considerations in mind, it is easier to understand how men in the later nineteenth century and beginning twentieth century are prone to think of their periods as representing an acme in the course of progress. There is no doubt that we are far above the eighteenth century. That, however, was a deep valley in human accomplishment, indeed, a veritable slough of despond, out of which we climbed; and, looking back, are prone to think how fortunate we are in having ascended so high, though beyond our vision on the other side of the valley the hills rise much higher into the clouds of human aspiration and artistic excellence than anything that we have attained as yet. Indeed, whenever we try to do serious work at the present time, we confessedly go back from four to seven centuries for the models that we must follow. With Renaissance art and Gothic architecture and the literature before the end of the sixteenth century cut out of our purview, we would have nothing to look to for models. This phase of history needs to be recalled by all those who would approach with equanimity the consideration of The Thirteenth as the Greatest of Centuries.
INDEX
A.
Abbey schools, [26];
of St. Victor, [150]Aberration of light, [44]Abingdon, Edmund of, [327]Adam of St. Victor, [204]Age of Students, [25-63]Albertus Magnus, [46]Alchemies, [93]Alfonso the Wise, [2]Aliens' rights, [358]Allbutt, Prof., [83]Amiens, [105]Andrew II, Golden Bull, [369]Angel Choir, [13], [108]Angelo on Dante, [305]Anselm, [80]Antipodes, [50], [392]Ants in Dante, [314]Appreciation of art, [146]Aquinas, [38];
and Albertus, [271];
appreciation of, [283];
capacity for work, [286];
education, [270];
on Existence of God, [276];
on liberty and society, [279];
at Paris, [272];
as a poet, [287];
and Pope Leo XIII, [374];
on Resurrection, [278];
tributes to, [281]
Arbitration, [382]Arena Padua, [144]Arezzo, [23]Arnaud, Daniel, [189]Arnaud de Marveil, [189]Arnold, Matthew, and Francis, [256]Art and the Friars, [139]Artemus Ward, [52]Arts and Crafts, [124]Arthur Legends, [10], [173]Arundel, Countess of, [320]Asbestos, [398]Ascoli, Cope, [14], [134]Assisi, [144]Assizes of Clarendon, [351];
of Jerusalem, [365]Avignon, [24]
B.
Bacon, [41]Barbarossa, [1]Barbizon School, [145]Basil Valentine, [94]Bateson, Miss, [328]Beau Dieu, [13]Beautiful God, [105]Beauty and usefulness, [113]Beauvoisis, Statutes of, [365]Bell-making, [133]Beowulf, [180]Berrengaria, Queen, [320]Bernardo del Carpio, [170]Bernart de Ventadorn, [183]Bernard of Cluny, or Morlaix, [205]Bertrand de Born, [191]Bestiarium, [164]Bible study, [234], [252]Blanche of Castile, [289], [320];
as a mother, [326];
as a ruler, [326]Blessed work, [125]Boileau, Stephen, [365]Boniface VII and American Revolution, [374]Books, beautiful, [150];
bequests, [155];
collecting, [154], [157];
great stone, [115]Booklovers, [155]Book-learning, [129]Book of Arts, Deeds, Words, [5]Borgo Allegri, [141]Botany, [149]Bracton, [361]Bracton's digest, [15], [82]Bremen, [420]Brook farm, [264]
C.
Cahors, [34]Calendar, [43]Calvi, College of, [26]Capital, English, created, [357]Canon law, codified, [370]Canticle of Sun, [258]Carlyle,
Minnesong, [183];
Nibelungen, [178]Case histories, [84]Casimir the Great, [369]Caspian not a gulf, [406]Castles and armories, [120]Catalogues of libraries, [151]Cathedral Symbolism, [118]Cavalcanti, [10]Celano, [197]Chalices, [113]Charity organizations, [27], [345]Chartres, glass, [14];
windows, [111]Chauliac, [92]Chemistry, [46];
not forbidden, [93]Chester cycle, [240], [242]Chrestien de Troyes, [175]Chronicles, [224]Cid, El, [9]Cimabue, [2], [12], [140]Cino da Pistoia, [10]Circulating libraries, [149]Clare, St., and St. Francis, [322]Clare, St., [320];
character, [321];
happiness, [322];
life, [320]Clarendon assizes, [351];
constitutions, [351]Clerics at the universities, [71]Cloisters, Lateran, [121];
St. Paul's, Rome, [121]Coal, [397]Code of Hammurabi, [3]Coeducation, [330]Colleges, Origin of, [29]Cologne, [420]Common Law, [361]Commentaries on Law, [371]Common pleas, [35]Comparative university attendance, [61]Compayré, [67]Complaints of books, [158]Composition of matter, [38]Condorcet, [34]Conrad of Kirchberg, [188]Conservation of energy, [39]Cope of Ascoli, [115]Corrections, Optical, [131]
[{487}]
Cost of books, [156]Crusades and democracy, [389];
Greene, on, [389];
Storrs on, [388];
Stubbs on, [298]Curtain lectures, [331]
D.
Dante da Maiano, [10]Dante and children, [313];
and Milton, [315];
and Virgil, [316];
education, [300];
in America, [311];
in England, [305];
in Germany, [309];
in Italy, [304];
not alone, [300];
power of observation, [313];
present estimation, [317];
sonnets, [302];
troubadour, [303];
universality, [301]
Dante-Gesellschaft, [310]Dean Church's Dante, [306]Decay of Philosophy, [282]Declaration of Independence, Swiss, [377]Degrees, [36]De Maistre, [66]Democracy and the Crusades, [388];
guilds, [378]Denifle, [35]De Roo on pre-Columbian America, [400]Dialectics, [33]Dies Irae, Admirers of, [199];
supreme, [197]Dietmar von Eist, [186]Digest of common law, [361]Discipline at universities, [73];
and democracy, [76]Disease segregation, [343]Dissection not forbidden, [91]Dominicans and art, [139];
and books, [156]St. Dominic, [266];
and St. Francis, [267]Donatus, Deposition for ignorance of, [30]Drama and St. Francis, [238]Durandus, [117], [234]
E.
Education, classes, [7];
masses, [8];
popular, [129];
of women, four periods, [331]Edward I, [2], [361]Edward VI and charity, [340];
education, [386]El Cid, [169];
battle scene, [170];
daughters' innocence, [172];
marriage, [171];
single author, [169]Emulation of workers, [125]Encyclopedia, [231]Enforcement of law, [366]English democracy, [378]Enterprise, commercial, [421]Epic poetry, [167]Equality of women, [324], [389]Erysipelas segregated, [344]Evelyn's diary, [131]Evolution and man, [3]Experiment, [44]Explosives, [42]Exultet, [207]
F.
Fehmic Courts, [368]Felix of Valois, [347]Feminine education, [330];
four periods, [331] reasons for decline, [333]Ferguson, [97]Francis, St., great disciples, [263];
in drama, [239];
influence still, [266];
life, [259];
literary man, [255];
modern interest in, [261];
Ruskin on, [260];
second order, [265];
third order, [265];
troubadour, [255]Franciscans and Art, [139];
explorers, [394]Fraternal insurance, [382]Fraternity, initiations, [425]Frederick II, [2]Freedom, development of, [375]Free cities, [377];
schools, [385]Freemen's rights, [358]Friars, [267];
Green's tribute to, [268];
explorers, [409]Froude, [97];
on Reynard, [211]Furniture, [122]Finsen anticipated, [89]Five Sisters, York, [14], [110]Founder of Hospitals, [337]
G.
Gaddi, [2], [142]Galsang Gombeyev, [402]Geography, [50]German Guild-hall, London, [421]Gerontius' dream, [308]Gild merchant, [383]Giotto, [2], [12], [142];
appreciation of, [145];
immense work, [146]Giotto's tower, [122]Gladstone and Richard de Bury, [160]Glosses, Law, [371]Goethe's Reynard, [213]Goerres, [255]Gohier, Urbain, [379]Golden Bull, [369]Golden Legend, [213]Goodyear, [131]Gothic, development, [102];
English, [100];
French, North German, [167];
Sculpture, [105-107];
Spanish, [100];
varieties, [12], [100], [167]Grail Legends, [174]Gratian, [81]Gray, [32]Green on Matthew Paris, [229]Greatness of an epoch, [6]Gregorian chant, [207]Grotesque in Dante, [309]Grounds of ignorance, [41]Guido de Montpelier, [338]Guido, [142]Guilds, [132];
and the drama, [136];
and democracy, [378];
Boston, [382];
London, [382];
number, [381];
rules, [38];
list of, [245]
H.
Hamburg, [420]Hamilton, [34]Hammurabi, [4]Hansa Alamanniae, [422];
and Denmark, [419];
geese cackle, [419];
obscurity of origin, [416]Harper, [52]Hartman von Aue, [186]Hayton, [412]Healing by first intention, [85]Herodotus and Marco Polo, [396]History, so-called, [127], appendix
Hollandus, [94]
[{488}]
Homer, [3]Hospitals, earliest, [337];
England, [339]Hotel Dieu, [339];
endowment, [339]Human life, value, [367]Human rights, [366]Humboldt on Dante, [311-315]Humboldt, [47]Humor in mystery plays, [241]Humphreys, [162]Huysmans, [120]Hymns often heard, [195];
and languages, [203];
seven greatest, [199]
I.
Ignorance and servitude, [127]Illuminated books, [162]Indestructibility of matter, [39]International court, [424];
comity, [428];
fraternity, [391]Irnerius, [18], [81]Iron work, [114]
J.
Jenghis Khan, [2]Jerusalem the Golden, [205]Jessopp, Rev. Augustus, [133]Job, [3]Jocelyn of Brakelond, [226];
and Boswell, [227];
selection, [227]John of Carpini, [400]John of Matha, [347]John of Monte Corvino, [410-412]Joinville and the poor, [297];
selection, [228]Journeymen, [135]Justinian, English, [363]
K.
Kenilworth, [121]Kidney disease, [84]
L.
Lafenestre, [138-144]Lamentations, [207]Lanfranc, [37], [83]Lancelot, [175]Lateran, Council of, [28]Laurie, [59], [63], [65], [76]Law, Canon, [370];
French, [364];
German, [368];
Glosses, [371];
Hungarian, [369];
Polish, [369];
Spanish, [15]
Lea, Henry C, [60]League, Lombard, [417]Legenda Aurea, [213]Lending of books, [152]Lending of professors, [56]Leo XIII, [81]Lepers, Louis IX and, [297]Leprosy eradicated, [343]Lerida, [24]Lhasa entered, [410]Liberties and customs, [360];
English, [358];
Hungary and Poland, [369]Library of La Ste. Chapelle, [152];
circulating, [152], [165];
of Hotel Dieu, [153];
of the Sorbonne, [153]Lincoln, [96]Lingard, [61]Literature for women, [334]Lodge, Sir Oliver, [40]Longfellow, [209];
Dante, [311]Louis IX, [289];
books, [164];
charity, [296];
crusades, [298];
education, [291];
father, [290-294];
husband, [289];
justice, [293], [294];
law, [365];
monks, [295];
son, [289]
Lowell on Dante, [311]Lübeck punished, [418];
laws, [422]Lully, [57]Lunar rainbows, [48]
M.
Mabel Rich, [327]MacCarthy, [201]Magna Charta, [1], [350];
development of, [353];
excerpts, [352], et seq.
Malory, [175]Mandeville, [408]Manning on Dante, [308]Map or Mapes, Walter, [174-176]March on Latin Hymns, [195]Marco Millioni, [396]Maria di Novella, [331]Masterpieces, [135]Matter and form, [40];
constitution of, [40]Matthew Paris, [229];
Green's tribute, [229]Meaning of Cathedral, [118]Meistersingers, [10]Merchants' privileges, [359]Merrie England, [126]Metaphysical speculations, [33-37]Method of study, [53]Meyer, [49]Middle Ages, place of, [5]Middle class students, [72]Mill, [34]Millet, [145]Minnesingers, [10]Modern war correspondents anticipated, [225], [228]Mondino, [93]Money and privileges, [426]Money grabbers, [217]Monks, Idle, [414];
explorers, [413]Monroe, [55]Montalembert, monks, [414];
laws, [364]Montpelier, [23]Morley, Henry, [42], [157], [173], [244]Most read books. Ten, [209]Motor cars, [43]Music, Church, [206];
part, [207]Mutual Aid, [379]Mystery plays, players, [247], [250];
bible study, [251];
influence, [252]
N.
Names, Medieval, [331]Nations, [76]Neale, [206]Needlework, [14]Nerve suture, [86]Newman's tribute to Dante, [306]New York Times Building, [123]Nibelungen, [177]Noah and wife, [242]Nolasco, Peter, [348]Notebook, The elegant, [54]Novgorod founded, [421]Numbers of students, [63], et seq
Nurses' habits, [345]
O.
Odoric, [409]One thing a day, [54]Optics, [44]
[{489}]
Optical corrections, [131]Opus Majus, [45]Organized charity, [381]Osler, [108], [323]Oxford, [22]
P.
Padua, [23]Pagel, [90];
on Vincent of Beauvais, [233]Palencia, [24]Pange Lingua, [199]Papal Court and academy, [31]Parliament, First English, [14]Parzifal, [188]Peace Burgs, [420]Pennell, Elizabeth Robbins, [98]Peregrinus, [37-44]Perugia, [23]Petroleum, [397]Peyrols, [192]Philobiblon, [157]Philosophic writers, [222]Phosphorescence in Dante, [315]Physical geography, [47]Place of women, [319]Plain Chant, [207]Plumptre's Dante, [310]Polo, Marco, [396]Poor students, [72]Poor, Washing feet of, [297]Popes and Laws, [370]Pope Alexander IV, [31];
Boniface VIII, [2];
Gregory IX, [2], [30];
Honorius IV, [2], [30];
Innocent III, [2], [30], [337]Population of England, [61]Potamian, Brother, [37]Piacenza, [23]Practical knowledge, [41]Preparatory schools, [26]Pre-renaissance, [5], [254]Professors' publications, [79]Progress of liberty, [386]
Q.
Queen Berengaria, [320]Queen Blanche of Castile, [320]
R.
Ransom of prisoners, [347]Raymond of Pennafort, [348]Real Estate Law, [362]Redemption of captives, [348]Red-light therapy, [89]Religious order for erysipelas, [345];
for slaves, [347]Reinach, [103], [116], [128]Representative government, [372], [386]Renaissance, [5]Reynard the Fox, [210];
original, [212]Rheims, [105], [107]Rhenish cities, [420]Rhymed Latin, [104]Rhyme, origin, [199]Richard Coeur de Lion, [1]Richard de Bury, [157];
as a churchman, [161];
chaplains, [160];
charity, [161];
place in history, [159]
Rich, Mabel, [327];
and her sons, [327]Robinson, Fr. Paschal, [257], [261]Rod in school, [185]Roland, [181]Romance of Rose, [215];
charge of dullness, [216];
poor happy, [219];
misers miserable, [218];
satire on money grabbers, [217]Rossetti on Dante, [317]Rubruquis, [403];
on customs, [408];
on languages, [405], [407]Rucellai Madonna, [141]Rudolph of Hapsburg, [2], appendix
Ruskin, [6], [123], [260], [309]Rusticiano, [399]
S.
Sadness absent in Gothic art, [147]Saintsbury, [34], [36], [175], [180], [197], [223], [226]Saladin, [1]Salamanca, [24]Salamander, asbestos, [398]Salicet, [83]Salimbene, Friar, [403]Salisbury, [129]Saturday, half-holiday, [379]Schaff, [198], [205]Scholasticism and style, [223]Sculpture, Amiens, [13], [105];
Rheims, [105] St. Denis, [13]Settlement work, [325];
Seneca, [53]Siena, [23]Sigbart, [47]Simon de Montfort, [361]Social unrest, [124]Sorbonne, Robert, [53]Sordello, [10]St. Bonaventure, [2], [203];
Clare, [2], [320];
Dominic, [267];
Edmund, [72], [327];
Elizabeth, [320], [325];
Ferdinand, [15];
Hugh, [2], [96];
Thomas, [203]
St. Gall, [69]St. John, Lateran, [121]St. Mary's Abbey, [121]St. Paul's, Rome, [121]St. Victor, Adam and Hugh of, [204]Stabat Mater, [200];
translations, [201]Stained Glass, [14];
Lincoln, [109];
York, [110]Stevenson, R. M., [99]Storrs on Crusades, [388]Stubbs on Crusades, [298]Students, Support of, [65]Studies, [33]Studium generale, [21]Symbolism, [117]Systematizing thought, [80]
T.
Tarragona, [101]Tartars, Book of, [402]Tasso and Nibelungen, [179]Taste, Popular, [112]Tate, [52]Taxation and representation, [336];
no, without representation, [374]"The Three Eights, "[379]Thibet, [410]Thomas, St., See Aquinas
Thule, [51]Toledo, [101]Toulouse, [24]Towns and cathedrals, [9]Trade facilities, [415]Travel, medieval, [394]Troubadours, [190]Trouvères, [10]Turner, [35], [145]Training intellect
[{490}]
U.
Ungreek, only thing, [99]Universitas, [21]University, Bologna, [19], [58];
foundation, [18];
Orleans, [19];
Oxford, [58];
Paris, [18], [58];
Salernum, [20];
roughness, [73]
V.
Vehmgerichte, [368]Vercelli, [23]Vicenza, [23]Vienna Cathedral, [168]Vigilance committees, [368]Vigils, holidays, [379]Villehardouin, [224];
and Xenophon, [225]Vincent of Beauvais, [231];
and historical writers, [231];
methods, [232];
style, [233]Virchow and evolution, [3];
on hospitals, [338];
on Pope Innocent, [342]Vocation for women, [322]Vogelweide, [185]Voragine, Jacobus de, [213]
W.
Wandering students, [57]Wanderjahre, [135]Water cure, [427]Wernher, [187]Whewell, [45]Widows, Magna Charta, [354]William of Rubruk, [403]William of Salicet, [83]William of St. Gregory, [192]Wolfram von Eschenbach, [187]Women, in hospitals, [328];
in literature, [335];
occupations, [329];
position, [334]Working students, [60]Wounds of neck, [86]
X.
Xenophon, and Villehardouin, [225]
Y.
Yeats, [113]Yule, Colonel, [401];
on Odoric, [411];
on Rubruquis, [407]
Z.
Zimmern, Miss, on Hansa, [415];
on medieval initiations, [425]
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Dear Dr. Walsh:
I beg to thank you for your interesting letter enclosing syllabus of Advent Lectures and circular of your latest work. The highest value attaches to historical research on the lines you so ably indicate, especially at the present time, when the enemies of Holy Church are making renewed efforts to show her antagonism to science and human progress generally. I shall have much pleasure in perusing your work entitled "The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries."
Wishing you every blessing, I am, Yours sincerely in Xt., Rome, January 18th, 1908. R. Card. MERRY DEL VAL.