ve for Leonora d'Este, 210-211

TENDERNESS-on-Sympathy, in Germany, 241

TENNYSON, his opinion of Dante, 181

TERTULLIAN, 103

THAIS, monument to, 58

THEBES, 63;
its fall, 61

THEMISTOCLES, son of, 61-62

THEOLOGY, its base influence on love, 8

THERESA, St., story of, 132-133

TIBERIUS, his laws on women, 81

TOURNAMENTS, 144-145

TRISTRAM and Isaud, 144

TROUBADOURS, the, 172-174;
their religion, 175;
opposed by the Papacy, 176

VEDAS, the, on love, 7, 8;
the poetry of, deformed by Brahmanism, 9

VENICE, its evil influence on love, 207

VENTADOUR, BERNARD DE, 173

VENUS, worship of, 6;
name of Hebrew origin, 7;
her indifference to mortal aspirations, 33-34

VERONESE, 132

VERSAILLES, 232, 235

VESPASIAN, 108

VIRGIN, the, aspirations to, 133;
the _Regina angelorum_, 133;
reflected in art, 134

VIRGINIA, 82

VITTORIA COLONNA, 208;
her character, 211

VOLTAIRE, his opinion of the _Divina Commedia_, 181

WALTERS, LUCY, 224

WESTPHALIA, Peace of, 240

WIDOWS, under code of chivalry, 161

WIVES, treatment of, in Sappho's time, 53-54

WOMAN, early treatment of, 1, 2;
family life, the outcome of better treatment of, 2;
common property once, 2;
man's early treatment of, 2;
not honored in Judaea, 10;
incarnated sin to the Jews, 10;
as viewed by Ecclesiasticus, 10;
as viewed by Moses, 10, 11;
as viewed by Solomon, 11;
worshipped in the Renaissance, 15;
a man's chattel, 37;
as viewed by Homer, 39-40;
beginning of her emancipation, 40;
what she represented in Greece, 58;
her development through Aspasia, 62;
how viewed by the _Iliad_, 62-63;
how viewed by the _Odyssey_, 62-63;
treatment of, by Rome, 77-78;
her legal and actual position in Rome, 78;
her supremacy in Rome, 78-79;
her position stated by Cato, 79;
position of, in Rome compared with her position in Greece, 79;
hampered by Roman laws, 80-81;
Christ's opinion of, 113;
little thought of by St. Paul, 114;
her treatment of Christ, 115;
condition of, in dark ages, 127;
how regarded by the second council of Macon, 127;
St. Chrysostom on, 128;
retreat to cloister, 129;
legend of a, 131-132;
her enfranchisement in the Middle Ages, 135-136;
her condition in the Crusade times, 141;
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