Lyra, Nicholas de, 117, 196, 209, 456 n.

Machiavelli on the condition of Italy, 31.

Magdeburg, school at, 53; Ordinance, 401;

beginning of the Reformation in, 307; 194, 198, 384.

Magistry, the Christian, possess the jus episcopale, 147, 401.

Maid who lost her shoe, There was a, 313.

Mainz, Albert, Archbishop of, 187, 213, 229, 270, 293, 295, 296, 334, 341, 378.

Mansfeld, Counts of, 193, 295, 341, 373, 385, 386.

Mansfeld, district of, 193, 198.

Manuel, Juan, Spanish ambassador at Rome, 265, 272.

Marburg Articles, 353.

Marburg Colloquy, 352 ff.

Margaret Tudor, 21.

Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy, 21.

Mariolatry, 135.

Marlianus, Bishop of Puy, 185.

Marrani, 269.

Marriage of ecclesiastics, 343.

Marsiglio Ficino, 48, 158;

a disciple of Savonarola, 160.

Martiniani, 255.

Mary of Burgundy, 37.

Mass, the, propitiatory sacrifice in the, 312, 354.

Mastersingers, the, and the Reformation, 310.

Matthias Corvinus, 6, 9.

Maurice of Saxony, 382, 384 and n., 389, 393, 394.

Maximilian, Emperor, 31, 37, 39, 206, 232;

the Humanist Emperor, 39, 67, 184;

death, 40, 261;

in folk-song, 67;

and the Swiss, 111;

and the Landsknechts, 40, 110 n.

Mediæval Church, struggle with the Empire, 1 ff.

Mediæval Empire, 30 f.

Mediæval learning, 55,

Medici, the, rulers in Florence, 32;

Lorenzo de, 49;

relations with Savonarola, 162.

Medii fructus, 12 f.

Melanchthon, 156, 273, 308, 313 ff., 316, 350, 353, 364, 380, 402.

Memmingen, 333 f., 337, 346, 351, 368.

Marsilius of Padua, 306 n., 333.

Meissen, 208, 234.

Michelangelo, 50.

Middle class in England, 20.

Milan, 32 f.

Miltitz, Charles v., 234.

Minkwitz, Hans von, 277.

Mirabilia Romæ, 131.

Miracle Plays, 119.

Modrus in Hungary, 9.

Moldavia, 19.

Monasteries under secular control in Switzerland, 349.

Monastic life, Erasmus on the, 180 f.;

Luther on the, 211;

Eberlin on the, 304.

Money exactions by the Papacy, 11, 244 f., 268, 304.

Monks join the Lutheran movement, 305 f.

Monte Cassino, the Abbey of, 46.

Morals, clerical, at the close of the Middle Ages, 137 f., 190, 246.

More, Sir Thomas, 178, 186, 328.

Mosellanus, Peter, at the Leipzig Disputation, 237 f.

Moslems, 18 f., 26.

Mühlberg, battle of, 389.

Mühlhausen, battle of, 330, 334.

Municipal interference in ecclesiastical affairs, 141, 414.

Munster, Sebastian, chronicler, 170.

Munster, town on the Ems, 52.

Münzer, Thomas, people's priest at Zwickau, 314, 330, 334, 336.

Murad i., 19.

Murmellius, Johann, 52.

Murner, Thomas, 185, 303.

Musculus, Wolfgang, 391.

Mutianic Host, 68.

Mutianus (Mut, Mutti, Mudt, Mutta), Conrad, 52, 64, 185, 255.

Myconius (Mecum), Frederick, on family religion, 124, 127, 156;

on the Indulgence-seller, 213;

on the Theses, 230;

at Worms, 289 n.; 305, 309, 353.

Mystics, prayer circles among the, 153;

Luther's debt to the, 209 n.; 256.

Naples, 32 f.

Narrenschiff, 17, 102.

Nathin, John, Luther's teacher, 199 f., 457.

National Church for Germany, 36, 338, 389.

National literature, 44.

Naumberg, conference of German Protestants at (1555), 396.

Navarre, seized by Ferdinand of [pg 523] Aragon in consequence of a papal excommunication, 6 and n., 29.

Neopaganism, 48.

Nepotism, papal and kingly, 9.

Neukarsthans, 306 n.

New and Old God, the, 303.

Nicene Creed, 365, 468.

Niklashausen, a pilgrimage chapel, 100.

Nobility, position of, in England, 20;

in France, 25;

in Spain, 29.