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