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A Spanish nun makes a pilgrimage to regions famous in sacred history 2

St．Martin surprises his enemies by an exhibition of miraculous power 6

Attila，king of the Huns 9

Attila invades Italy，but is halted by Pope Leo 10

The death of Attila 12

The panegyrist compares Theodoric and Alexander the Great 14

Food-hoarding in the fifth century 17

A sacristan＇s adventure with the barbarians 18

Paradise 22

The jealousy of the serpent 23

Gregory explains why he undertakes to write history 26

Gregory confesses his faith and deplores his ignorance 27

The founding of Lyons 27

Attila and the Huns，invading Gaul，are checked at Orleans，and defeated near Chalons-sur-Marne by Aetius 28

Clovis，king of the Franks，defeats the Alamanni and accepts Christianity，the faith of his queen，Clotilda 30

Clovis defeats Alaric Ⅱ and the Visigoths at Vouillé 32

Clovis by scheming adds the kingdom of Sigibert to his own 34

Chilperic＇s legates return from the East 36

Death of King Chilperic；his character 37

Beginning of a feud between two families of Tours 39

The burning of Paris 42

Temptations of recluses 44

Outcome of the feud at Tours；death of Sichar 46

Pope Gregory chosen 47

Ammonius falls from a height over a precipice 51

A thief，hanged，but saved by Saint Martin 52

The boy and the grapes 53

A beeswax story 54

Fortunatus sends flowers to Radegunda 57

He sends a basket of chestnuts 59

Fortunatus sends thanks to St．Agnes and Radegunda for dainties 59

Verses penned to Saint Agnes and Radegunda towards the end of a banquet 60

The triumph of the Cross 60

The Sacred Tree 62

Heraclius，his rise to power，his methods，his character 64

The Saracens and their conquests 66

To the Empress Constantina Augusta，with reference to relics 70

Night 75

Glass 76

The martyrdom of Saint Alban 81

How Christian missionaries came to be sent to Britain 85

Caedmon and his gift of poesy 86

An example of monastic asceticism 88

The martyrdom of the holy innocents 89

Charlemagne discovers the character of the Germans 92

How Charlemagne brought up his children 94

Charlemagne＇s physique，exercise，bathing 96

His habits in daily life 97

His studies and educational ambitions 98

His devotion to the church 98

The seven sleepers 103

The Maelstrom 104

King Alboin makes alliance with the Huns and defeats the Gepidae 105

How the Langobards were invited to settle in Italy 107

A fatal jest 108

Tiberius Constantinus becomes fiftieth emperor of Rome and finds the treasure of Narses 109

A royal wooing 111

Paulus digresses from history to relate a remarkable tale 113

Paulus discusses his own genealogy 115

A tyrannous duke and how a joke was played on him 117

In praise of Lake Como 119

Paulus disclaims profound linguistic learning，but knows a little Greek 121

De puero qui in glacie extinctus est 124

An epitaph for the tomb of the poet Fortunatus 124

The fable of the sick lion 125

The calf and the stork 127

The gout and the flea 127

Conflictus veris et hiemis 130

De libris quos legere solebam el qualiter fabulae poetarum a philosophis mystice pertractentur 133

The siege of Barcelona 136

A prayer 141

On horticulture 142

Lilies 143

The divisions of nature 146

An elusive category 147

Reynard takes Isengrim fishing 152

How to be a just judge 160

A sequence on the birthday of the martyr St．Laurence 162

The story of the martyrdom of Saint Laurence 164

A joking emperor and a shrewd soldier 170

Conrad Ⅰ dies and orders the succession 172

The assassination of King Berengarius Ⅰ 173

The imperial palace at Constantinople and what happened there to the emperor Romanus Ⅰ 176

Liutprand as envoy of Berengarius Ⅱ is received in the palatial＂Magnaura＂ at Constantinople 177

Liutprand＇s reception in Constantinople and treatment by Nicephorus 179

Shoddy imperialism 183

Some prophecies and their interpretations 186

Liutprand＇s farewell to Constantinople 188

Walther and Hildegund come to an understanding and plan flight 191

Attila discovers the flight of the hostages 194

Walther dispatches the third of his opponents in the Vosges 195

The battle continues：the hero is compared to a bear amid dogs 196

A brave Saxon leads his countrymen to victory 197

Shrewd methods of petty warfare 199

A fire test convinces the Danes 200

Verdun in the tenth century 201

A hard journey(from Rheims to Chartres)in pursuit of learning 204

Dulcitius 211

A Mystery play of the Resurrection 222

A Miracle play，introducing Saint Nicholas 228

Come，Holy Spirit 233

Three friends and a telltale 237

Notker＇s encounter with the Devil 242

Heribald and the Hungarian invasion 244

The duchess Hadwig at her morning lesson with Ekkehart 249

The Norsemen discover America 252

Selections from the life of Alexander the Great 256

Some of the marvels said to have been seen by Alexander 261

Modus Ottinc(＇The Otto Melody＇) 264

Lament for the death of Henry Ⅱ 267

A clever liar 269

The bishop and the braggart 271

The lazy abbot 272

The priest and the wolf 274

A song for summer 277

The nightingale 278

Abelard relates the story of his passion and the self-sacrificing devotion of Hélo？se 282

Heloise voices her sympathy and love，and appeals for letters 289

The magnanimity of William Rufus 295

Other examples of the king＇s magnanimity 297

The beginning of＂wassail＂ in England 300

The coronation of King Arthur 301

The coronation games and sports 303

Pope Urban Ⅱ exhorts the Council of Clermont to the crusade 306

＂O Sacred Head，now wounded＂ 312

This fleeting world，the Judgment，Heaven，Hell，warnings，and exhortations 315

The Golden Age has passed away 321

The discovery of the holy spear 323

The virtue of the holy spear is attested 330

The crusaders capture Jerusalem 336

A riot at Oxford 348

The aftermath of the riot 351

The king speaks harshly to Leicester 353

The passion of the Saviour 356

The four grounds of error 358

The importance of language study 359

The Mother of Christ beside the Cross 363

The Day of Judgment 367

The Goliards，or wandering students 371

The coming of spring 374

An invitation 374

At the tavern 374

The song of the topers 377

A riddle 378

The lament of the roast swan 379

Fickle Fortune 379

This vain world 380

Sweets to the sweet 381

In praise of wine 382

The apocalypse of Bishop Golias 384

Golias curses the thief of his purse 387

Dialogue between water and wine 388

Dialogue between the body and the soul 391

＂Sir Penny＂ 398

A Knight Templar faithful unto death 400

Royal ways and royal sayings 401

Burnellus arrives in Paris and joins the University 404

Burnellus bemoans his incapacity for learning 407

The hill of ambition 410

Address to＂Nature＂ 415

＂A friend in need is a friend indeed＂ 417

A story-teller＇s ruse 419

A new use for the gold-brick game 420

＂Penny wise and pound foolish＂ 424

An overconfident astrologer 425

Wolfish logic 426

A spoiled horse 427

An ancient saying illustrated 428

Peeps behind the veil of Providence 429

A presumptuous emperor learns a bitter lesson 433

A shrewd king 440

＂The Lady of Comfort＂ 443

Apollonius escapes shipwreck and is befriended by a fisherman 448

Apollonius falls in with King Archistrates and wins his favor 449

Archistrates invites Apollonius to dinner 450

Three suitors and the mind of a princess 453

Apollonius intrusts his infant daughter to foster-parents 457

Tharsia narrowly escapes being murdered，but is kidnapped by pirates 457

Apollonius finds his wife in the temple of Diana at Ephesus 461

Apollonius goes to Tarsus and avenges the wrong done to his daughter 463

The story ends happily for all 464

The story begins 466

Astrology brings complications 466

The queen＇s second story：the witch and the spring 467

The story of the third wise man：the dog 469

King Dolopathos 470

The palace and its glories at Palermo 470

The．birth of Prince Lucinius 471

Lucinius is entrusted to the tutelage of Vergil 472

Lucinius tells Vergil how astrology made him swoon away 472

Lucinius promises not to speak，for a season 473

Lucinius enters Palermo in splendor 473

Dolopathos in vain begs Lucinius to break his silence 474

Lucinius，falsely charged with a heinous crime，continues to keep silence 474

The plan to burn Lucinius alive is interrupted 475

The story of the first wise man：the faithful dog 477

The story of the second wise man：the treasure and the thief 482

Barlaam and Josaphat 491

The two blind men 508

＂Farmer Hayseed＂ goes to the city 509

A nobleman and his three sons 509

A wise slave 510

Norfolk and its folks 511

Mice in council 514

The stupid men of Willebeg 514

The glass blower＇s son 516

The Antiphonetes 519

St．William heals a poor woman＇s hog 540

A strange remedy and how its neglect meant death to William the sacrist 541

A cruel punishment and a miraculous healing 545

A perilous adventure and a marvelous rescue 546

The schoolboy and the Devil 548

The usurious woman 549

A son converts his father 551

Universal peace the ideal state for the world 552

A pastoral 555

Petrarch writes a letter to Cicero 560

Petrarch describes his manner of life at Vaucluse 564

On traducers and calumniators：the fable of the rustics and donkey 568

The victorious Masinissa meets the beautiful Sophonisba 569

Aeneas travels in England and Scotland，with many adventures 575

Hymn to Eternity 582

Galatea 584

Cleopatra 587

A tempting invitation 590

To his thrush 594

Drown care in wine 594

De honesto amore et felici eius exitu 596

Galatea 603

Folly is universal and has many types 608

Even those who profess wisdom have their follies 610

A dialogue on early rising 612

The state of learning in England 619

Croeso，Crasso ditior 621

The Utopians scorn great wealth，dice-playing，and hunting 623

A lover who cannot＂eat his cake and have it too＂ 626

The lark in the opening spring(Ioannes Stigelius) 627

A paradox explained(Ioannes Posthius) 628

Why a maiden looks at a youth(Sebastianus Schefferus) 628

To Rosina(Paulus Melissus) 629

A complaint to Sophy＇s turtledove(Tobias Scultetus) 629

An invitation to a banquet in a suburban garden(Michael Haslobius) 630

Suitable requests for prayer(Georgius Fabricius) 631

A clear conscience is the best protection(Henricus Decimator) 632

Gaudium bonae mentis 634

The prodigal son receives his portion and says farewell 637

The prodigal meets＇Spendthrift＇ and＇Glutton，＇ and becomes their victim 640

After his＂riotous living＂ the prodigal soliloquizes 644

The prodigal returns home to his father 646

Muretus delivers an encomium on literature 650

A defense of literature against its detractors 660

The power of poetry 665

A plea for Greek and Latin 667

The praise and prayer of a happy life 674

Literary and political gossip 675

Lipsius at home，in his garden 676

A Jonah of the sixteenth century 680

An artificial apple serves as a text for philosophical discussion 688

The shrewdness and other virtues of the louse 690

The atmosphere for poesy 695