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* Villeins, 237, 254, 337, 480, 486, 523-24
 * Vilna, 552
 * Vinci, Leonardo da, 602, 605-06
 * Vinland, 223, 230, 395
 * Virgate, 235
 * Virgin, the, 624; and see Madonnas
 * Visconti, House of, 580
 * Visconti, Bianca, 580
 * Visconti, Gian Galeazzo, 590
 * Visconti, Valentine, 636
 * Viscount, 269
 * Visigoths, see West Goths
 * Vision of Piers the Ploughman, 516-17, 562-65
 * Vistula River, 17, 42, 139, 308, 544
 * Vita Nuova, 411, 415
 * Viterbo, 464
 * "Voices," of Joan of Arc, 528
 * Volga River, 17, 58, 549, 556
 * Vosges Mountains, 12, 17, 88, 166
 * Voyages of Discovery, 394, 609-14, 633
 * Vulgate, 113, 593
 * Wager of battle, 51, 205, 469, 497
 * Wages, 498, 516, 523
 * Waiblingen, 350
 * Waldensians, 443, 448, 450
 * Waldo, Peter, 443, 450
 * Wales, 12, 29, 164, 167, 222, 398, 406, 484, 487-88, 519; and see Welsh
 * Walid, Caliph, 180.
 * Wallace, Sir William, 488
 * Wallachia, 140, 453, 554, 556, 558
 * Walled towns, 24; gates, 33; Rome walled again, 54, 226-27; barbarian invaders, and, 83, 91, 135, 152, 179; medieval, 315, 327, 329-30, 337, 367-69, 451, 494, 505, 518, 578, 629
 * Walloons, 269
 * Walsingham, 368
 * Walter of Brienne, 466
 * Walter the Penniless, 315
 * Walther von der Vogelweide, 406
 * Wapentake, 221, 478
 * Wardship and marriage, 243, 257, 277, 480
 * Warfare, and history, 2, 5, 9; and geography, 12; and citizenship, 26; Roman, 28 ; among early Germans, 43, 46-47, 127; of mounted nomads, 57; early Christian opposition to, 104; Mohammedan, 176; chief pursuit of Charlemagne, 199; feudal, 249-52, 256, 274; crusades, 315, 324; interurban in Italy, 348, 576; literature of, 400, 402; of Philip Augustus, 493; of the fourteenth century, 531; of the Hussites, 570; of the condottieri, 576-77, 580; and see Army, Invasions, Knights, Mercenaries, Private War
 * Warfare, and history, 2, 5, 9; and geography, 12; and citizenship, 26; Roman, 28 ; among early Germans, 43, 46-47, 127; of mounted nomads, 57; early Christian opposition to, 104; Mohammedan, 176; chief pursuit of Charlemagne, 199; feudal, 249-52, 256, 274; crusades, 315, 324; interurban in Italy, 348, 576; literature of, 400, 402; of Philip Augustus, 493; of the fourteenth century, 531; of the Hussites, 570; of the condottieri, 576-77, 580; and see Army, Invasions, Knights, Mercenaries, Private War


 * Wars of Religion, 339, 544
 * Wars of the Roses, 614, 628-29
 * Warwick, the King-Maker, 628
 * Welf, House of, 349-50
 * Welsh dialect, 398
 * Welsh people, 434, 630
 * Wends, 216, 228, 544
 * Wenzel, Holy Roman Emperor, 539, 553, 570
 * Wergeld, 47, 52, 123
 * Wessex, Kingdom of, 220
 * West Franks, 213, 219, 261, 266, 399
 * West Goths, 4, 55, 75-85, 87-90, 111, chap. vii, 128, 138, 149-50, 157, 160, 169, 178-79, 187, 554
 * West Indies, 610
 * Westminster, 476
 * Westminster Abbey, 430
 * Westphalia, 534, 539
 * West Prussia, 546
 * West Saxons, 202, 220
 * Wettin dynasty, 540
 * Whitby, Synod of, 167
 * White Huns, see Ephthalites
 * White Sea, 12, 17, 223
 * "White Shirt" (Greenland), 223
 * Widows, 46, 92, 173-74; feudal, 243, 270-71, 491; of gild members, 331; 515
 * Widukind, 375
 * Will, see Langland
 * William I, or the Conqueror, King of England, 246, 270, 275-77, 292-93, 295, 312, 376, 459, 474, 477-79
 * William II, or Rufus, 293, 314, 380, 48c
 * William V, Duke of Aquitaine, 273
 * William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine, 272
 * William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, 405
 * William, Count of Holland, 470
 * William of Conches, 378-79, 384-85
 * William of Lorris, 405
 * William of Roches, 508
 * William of Rubruk, 393, 452
 * Willibrord, 167
 * Wills, 52, 294, 460
 * Winchester, 368; cathedral, 423
 * Windows, house-, 339, 369, 388; splayed,422 ; rose-, 428; lancet, 431; in Renaissance buildings, 600; and see Clear-story, Stained glass
 * Winfrith, see Boniface, St.
 * Wisby, 369, 543
 * Wissendi, 534
 * Witan, 222, 276
 * Witchcraft, 528-29, 534
 * Wittelsbach, House of, 539
 * Woden, 45
 * Wolsey, 530
 * Woman, position of, in Roman law,