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i n d e x Adeltrude (Gerald’s mother), 13, 19, 50, 86, 133, 136, 194 Ademar (count of Poitiers), 17, 33, 95 Ademar (viscount of Limoges), 69 Ademar of Chabannes, 5, 31–34, 36, 38, 40– 43, 44, 53, 68–99, 101, 108–10, 123–24, 126, 130, 155, 165–66, 183–84, 188 Agen, 78 Aimon (abbot of Tulle, then of Limoges), 14, 22, 31, 47–48, 50, 70, 84, 187 Albi, 10, 30, 35, 115, 194 Albigensians and the Albigensian Crusade, 123, 126. See also heretics and heresy Albons, 177 Alexander the Great, 133 Alexander VI (pope), 128 Alfonso II (king of Aragon), 118 Amant (saint), 69. See also Boixe Angers, 115 Angoulême, 69 animals, 20, 29, 38, 42, 47, 75, 79, 89, 98 Antichrist, 24, 62, 201 Aosta, 203 Apocalypse, 58, 93, 94. See also Antichrist Aragon, 113, 114, 118 Aredius (saint), 15, 50, 132, 194 Argentat, 16, 63, 202 Aristotle, 133 Arles, 92, 115 Arles-sur-Tech, 115 Arras, 110 Arrigas, 181 Aspres-sur-Buëch, 121, 155, 170 Augustine (saint), 133 Aurillac, 1, 3–4, 9, 10, 14, 30, 34, 36, 37, 44– 49, 58, 74, 99, 101–5, 114, 117–21, 123, 125, 126–30, 144–48, 189; abbots of, 47, 101, 108, 109, 117–18, 119, 121, 128, 129–30, 147, 201; castle at, 33, 45, 95, 118; merchants and townspeople of, 119–20, 129, 152; Saint Gerald’s church and shrine at, 10, 27, 37, 39, 48, 73–74, 78, 79, 82–83, 94, 99, 102–5, 128–31, 138–40, 144–45, 148, 151–54, 156, 164, 165, 167, 170, 188, 189, 190; secularization of the monastery of, 128–29. See also Buis, Saint-Jean-du (convent) Auris-en-Oisans, 1–2, 187 Austreclinien (saint), 69 Avignon, 113, 120 Banhars, 160, 165 Barbechat, 115 Barcelona, 102, 104 Benedict (Gerald’s nephew), 29 Benedict (saint), 133. See also Rule of Saint Benedict Benedictines, 177 Bernard Gui, 126 Bernard of Angers. See Foy (saint) Béziers, 175, 177 Black Death, 121 Boixe (Saint-Amand-de-), 69, 121 Bollandists, 11–12 Borgia, Cesare, 128 Bouange, Guillaume-Marie-Frédéric, 167–69, 184, 187 Boulanger, Georges, 163 Bournac, 121 Bourniou, 75, 170 Braga, 115 Branche, Jacques, 135–38, 145, 183 Breve chronicon Aureliacensis abbatiae, 53, 101, 104, 108, 117, 168 Brioude, 104, 135 Buis, Saint-Jean-du (convent), 113, 129, 148 Burgundy, 92 300 index Cabanillas, Ramón, 184 Caesarius of Arles (saint), 15, 50, 132, 194 Cahors, 10, 30, 35, 115, 120, 194 Calvin, John, 126, 128. See also Protestants and Protestant Reformation canonization, 4–5, 65 Capdenac (-le-Haut), 203 Capetians, 53 Carcassonne, 115 Carmelites, 129, 130 Carolingians, 53. See also Charlemagne; Charles the Simple; Frankish empire and rulers Castelmauresche, 179 Catalonia and the Catalan language, 2, 113–14, 115, 126, 136, 177 Cathars. See Albigensians and the Albigensian Crusade Cayrac, 121 celibacy. See chastity Cévennes, 179 Charlemagne, 132, 165, 168 Charles the Simple (Frankish king), 46–47, 53, 131 chastity, 1, 15, 23, 51, 61, 82, 97, 134, 136, 138, 148, 165–66, 169, 197 Childebert (Frankish king), 132 children and childhood, 51, 55–56, 68, 83, 86, 88, 188, 195 Cistercians, 123, 177 Cı̂teaux, 114 Claricians/Poor Clares, 129 Clement (saint), 2, 10 Clermont (-Ferrand), 46, 104, 106, 114, 115, 120. See also Stephen (bishop of Clermont) clothing, 88–89, 124 Cluny, 13, 34–36, 45–50, 114, 118, 122, 136, 154, 190. See also Mayeul; Odo of Cluny; Peter the Venerable Cologne, 136 Compaing, M., 147 Concordat of 1801, 148 Concordat of Bologna, 128 Concourès, 155 Conques, 6, 37, 45, 101, 105, 106. See also Foy (saint) Constantine I (Roman emperor), 132, 168 Corpus Christi, feast of, 125 count, title and duties of, 17, 89–90, 148, 168 Counter-Reformation, 133, 135 crown, 134–35, 143, 148, 160 dauphin d’Auvergne, 119, 120 Dauzat-sur-Vodable, 121 Delzons, Jean-François-Amédée, 167 Devil, 63, 97, 196, 202 Die, 121 Dijon, 114 Dominicans, 123 Dominique de Jésus (Géraud Vigier), 128, 130–38, 143–45, 167, 170, 177 Drugeac, 171 Èbles Manzer (count of Poitiers), 33, 46, 53, 130 education, 51, 55, 81, 129, 133, 166, 195 El Cebrero. See O Cebreiro End of time. See Apocalypse English kings, 119, 121 Eparche (saint), 69 Estézargues, 171, 172, 181 eucharist, 125, 126, 135, 184 Évreux, 114 execution, judicial use of, 90. See also count, title and duties of; violence...

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