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INDEX Nafels, battle of, 542 Nancy, battle of, 621 Naples, 156, 216, 226, 341, 389. 565- 66, 635; Kingdom of, 471-72, 553, 566-68, 586, 588, 593, 626, 634, 636 Napoleon, 129, 540 Narbonne, 82, 179, 272, 333, 357, 561, 568; Archbishop of, 273, 504 Narses, 129-32, 136, 138 Narthex, 146 Nassau, see Adolf of Nationality, 212, 256, 260-61, 457, 472, 488, 490, 528, 530, 533, 566, 569, 612, 614-15, 622, 630, 633, 639; and see Government, growth of national "Nations" in medieval universities, 389, 552; at the Council of Con- stance, 567-68 Natural history, 1 Natural History, of Pliny the Elder, 24 Natural law, 31 Natural science, see Science Nature, in medieval literature, 400- 01, 405, 408; in Renaissance art, 601-03; and see Landscape paint- ing, Scenery Navarre, 273, 304, 321, 366, 405, 410, 517, 520, 522, 566, 630, 637 Navas de Tolosa, battle of, 304, 453 Nave, 146, chap, xxii, 600 Navigation, see Shipping Navigation laws of Venice, 345 Navy, see Shipping Nebuchadnezzar, no Negro, a medieval, 360 Nemours, Duchy of, 625-26 Neo-Platonism, 64-65, 96, 106 Nepos, Roman Emperor, 86 Nepotism, papal, 463-64, 503, 506 Nestorians, 109, 133, 184, 195, 550 Netherlands, 15, 40, 340, 365, 512, 594, 616-18, 638 Neustria, 118, 168, 179, 192-94, 198, 213, 261 Nevers, County of, 525, 616 Neville's Cross, battle of, 514 New England, 223 Newfoundland, 223 New Monarchy, 629 New World, 610-12, 638 New York, 394 Nibelungenlied, 42, 46, 400-01, 415 Nicaea, 315-16; Councils of, 55, 105, 207 Niccola Pisano, 601-02 Nicholas II, Pope, 285-87, 302 Nicholas V, 573-74, 592 Nicomedia, 465 Nicopolis battle of 553, 556-57 Nika revolt, 132-33, 143 Nile River, 3, 20, no, 138, 322, 608 Nimes, 90 Nimrod, 591 Noah, 114, 409 Nobility, 47, 52, 92, 94; of German invaders, 1 19-21, 123, 178; Ara- bian, 181, 189; Frankish, 193-94, 202-04; Anglo-Saxon, 222; in Ger- many, 287-90; of towns, 346-48, 354, 3575 discussed by Dante, 411; • Italian, 154, 160, 434, 578; Eng- lish, 459; represented in Estates, 488; Scandinavian, 546; Bohemian, 569-72; Venetian, 581-82; Floren- tine, 584-85; passing of the medie- val, 614, 616, 622-31; and see Feu- dalism, Barons, Lords, Counts, Dukes, Earls, Landgraves, Mar- graves, Marquis, etc. Nocera, 566 Nogaret, 505 Nomads, Asiatic mounted, 65-59, 139-40, 216, 228, 301, 309, 548, 554; and see Avars, Bulgars, Huns, Magyars, Mongols, Turks Nomads, of Arabia, 172, 176; and see Arabs Nomads, of Sahara, 178, 328; and see Berbers, Moors Nominalism, 379-80 Norbert, 298, 307 Noricum, 53, 79, 84, in, 136 Norman architecture, 422-23, 487 Norman conquest of England, 206, 223, 225, 246, 275-77, 398, 400, 483, 5 11 Norman conquest of Sicily and south- ern Italy, 225 Normandy, 206, 219, 225-26, 246, 2 56, 259, 270, 274-78, 292, 297-98, 314, 321, 329-31, 376, 378, 384, 406, 423, 457, 46o, 488, 494, 497, 501, 508-09, 513, 526-27, 530, 625-27 Norman French, 400 Normans, 219, 230-31, 286-87, 289, 291, 300-02, 314, 325, 343, 350, 352, 377, 383-84, 389, 406, 459, 461, 474, 480, 487, 633 North Cape, 223 North Mark, see Brandenburg Northern race, 10, 42 Northmen, 202, 212, 216-26, 232-33, 239, 275-76, 301, 327, 369, 395, 397, 474; and see Danes, Normans, Scandinavians, Swedes North Sea, 12, 17, 40, 88, 213, 218, 226, 275, 369, 543, 617, 620 Northumbria, Kingdom of, 166-69; 220; Earldom of, 276 Norway, 12, 40, 42, 218, 270, 275-76, 395, 532, 543, 546