ABSTRACT
Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. All entries conclude with a fully annotated bibliography.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
entry |3 pages
Pietro D'Abano
entry |3 pages
‘Abd Al-Mu'min
entry |3 pages
‘Abd Al-Rahman III Al-Nasir
entry |6 pages
Peter Abelard
entry |4 pages
Abu Hanifah
entry |3 pages
Abul Wefa
entry |4 pages
Adam de la Halle
entry |3 pages
Adrian IV
entry |3 pages
Afonso I
entry |4 pages
Ahmad Ibn Hanbal
entry |4 pages
Saint Albertus Magnus
entry |3 pages
Alboin
entry |4 pages
Alcuin
entry |4 pages
Alexander III
entry |4 pages
Alexander Nevsky
entry |3 pages
Alfonso X
entry |4 pages
Alfred the Great
entry |4 pages
Alhazen
entry |5 pages
Alp Arslan
entry |4 pages
Saint Anselm
entry |3 pages
Saint Anthony of Padua
entry |3 pages
Arnold of Villanova
entry |4 pages
Arnolfo di Cambio
entry |3 pages
Árpád
entry |4 pages
Aryabhata
entry |4 pages
Al-Ash‘ari
entry |3 pages
Ashikaga Takauji
entry |6 pages
Averroës
entry |4 pages
Avicenna
entry |4 pages
Roger Bacon
entry |3 pages
John Ball
entry |4 pages
Basil The Macedonian
entry |3 pages
Al-Battani
entry |4 pages
Bayears I
entry |4 pages
Thomas Becket
entry |4 pages
Saint Bede The Venerable
entry |4 pages
Saint Benedict Of Nursia
entry |3 pages
Benjamin Of Tudela
entry |4 pages
Saint Bernard Of Clairvaux
entry |3 pages
Al-Biruni
entry |5 pages
Giovanni Boccaccio
entry |4 pages
Boethius
entry |4 pages
Bohemond I
entry |4 pages
Saint Bonaventure
entry |4 pages
Saint Boniface
entry |4 pages
Boniface VIII
entry |3 pages
Boris I of Bulgaria
entry |3 pages
Henry De Bracton
entry |3 pages
Brahmagupta
entry |6 pages
Robert Bruce
entry |4 pages
Hubert De Burgh
entry |4 pages
Jean Buridan
entry |3 pages
Cödmon
entry |5 pages
Canute The Great
entry |4 pages
Giovanni Da Pian Del Carpini
entry |5 pages
Casimir The Great
entry |3 pages
Cassiodorus
entry |5 pages
Saint Catherine Of Siena
entry |3 pages
Guido Cavalcanti
entry |6 pages
Charlemagne
entry |3 pages
Charles D'Orléans
entry |4 pages
Charles Iv
entry |3 pages
Charles The Bald
entry |3 pages
Charles Martel
entry |3 pages
Alain Chartier
entry |5 pages
Geoffrey Chaucer
entry |4 pages
Cheng Ho
entry |3 pages
Chrùtien de Troyes
entry |5 pages
Christine De Pizan
entry |3 pages
Chu Hsi
entry |4 pages
El CID Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar
entry |2 pages
Cimabue Bencivieni di Pepo
entry |4 pages
Clovis
entry |4 pages
Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius Saint Cyril
entry |4 pages
Enrico Dandolo
entry |5 pages
Dante
entry |3 pages
David I
entry |4 pages
David II
entry |3 pages
Dionysius Exiguus
entry |4 pages
Saint Dominic
entry |4 pages
Duccio Di Buoninsegna
entry |6 pages
John Duns Scotus
entry |4 pages
Edward The Confessor
entry |3 pages
Edward The Elder
entry |4 pages
Edward I
entry |3 pages
Edward Ii
entry |4 pages
Edward III
entry |3 pages
Egbert
entry |4 pages
Eleanor Of Aquitaine
entry |4 pages
Saint Elizabeth Of Hungary
entry |3 pages
Ethelred II, the Unready
entry |3 pages
Fakhr Al-Din Al-Razi
entry |4 pages
Firdusi
entry |3 pages
Saint Francis of Assisi
entry |5 pages
Frederick I Barbarossa
entry |4 pages
Frederick Ii
entry |4 pages
Jean Froissart
entry |3 pages
Fujiwara Michinaga
entry |3 pages
Saint Fulbert Of Chartres
entry |5 pages
Genghis Khan
entry |4 pages
Mahmud Ghazan
entry |3 pages
Al-Ghazzali
entry |4 pages
Giotto
entry |3 pages
Gottfried Von Strassburg
entry |4 pages
Gregory VII
entry |4 pages
Gregory Ix
entry |4 pages
Gregory Of Tours
entry |4 pages
Gregory The Great
entry |3 pages
Guido D'arezzo
entry |3 pages
Guy De Chauliac
entry |4 pages
Hafiz Shams al-Din Muhammed
entry |5 pages
Al-Hallaj al-Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj
entry |4 pages
Harold II
entry |3 pages
Harsha
entry |4 pages
Hartmann Von Aue
entry |3 pages
Harun Al-Rashid
entry |3 pages
Al-Hasan Al-Basri
entry |3 pages
Henry I
entry |3 pages
Henry II
entry |4 pages
Henry II The Saint
entry |4 pages
Henry III
entry |4 pages
Henry IV
entry |5 pages
Henry IV
entry |4 pages
Henry The Lion
entry |4 pages
Heraclius
entry |5 pages
Hildegard von Bingen
entry |3 pages
Hsia Kuei
entry |5 pages
Hsüan-Tsang
entry |4 pages
Jan Hus
entry |4 pages
Ibn Al-'arabi
entry |3 pages
Ibn Battutah
entry |4 pages
Ibn Gabirol
entry |4 pages
Ibn Khaldun
entry |3 pages
Al-Idrisi
entry |5 pages
Innocent III
entry |4 pages
Innocent Iv
entry |4 pages
Saint Isidore Of Seville
entry |4 pages
Jabir Ibn Hayyan
entry |3 pages
Al-Jahiz
entry |5 pages
James I the Conqueror
entry |3 pages
Joachim Of Fiore
entry |3 pages
Jocho
entry |4 pages
King John
entry |4 pages
John Of Damascus
entry |5 pages
Judah Ha-Levi
entry |6 pages
Justinian I
entry |4 pages
Khosrowi
entry |3 pages
Al-Khwarizmi
entry |4 pages
Kublai Khan
entry |4 pages
Francesco Landini
entry |3 pages
Saint Lñszlói
entry |4 pages
Leif Eriksson
entry |4 pages
Leo IX
entry |3 pages
Leonardo of Pisa
entry |3 pages
Li Ch'ing-Chao
entry |4 pages
Lipo
entry |4 pages
Pietro Lorenzetti and Ambrogio Lorenzetti
entry |4 pages
Louis II The German
entry |5 pages
Louis IX
entry |4 pages
Raymond Lull
entry |3 pages
Ma Yüan
entry |4 pages
Guillaume De Machaut
entry |4 pages
Moses Maimonides
entry |3 pages
Mansa MuSa
entry |3 pages
Margaret Of Denmark, Norway, And Sweden
entry |3 pages
Marie De France
entry |4 pages
Simone Martini
entry |3 pages
Al-Mas'udi
entry |3 pages
Mifei
entry |6 pages
Simon V de Montfort
entry |3 pages
Moses de León
entry |6 pages
Muhammad
entry |3 pages
Murasakishikibu
entry |3 pages
Johannes De Muris
entry |3 pages
Alexander Neckam
entry |3 pages
Nichiren
entry |4 pages
Nicholas Of Autrecourt
entry |4 pages
Nicholas The Great
entry |4 pages
Nizam Al-Mulk
entry |4 pages
William Of Ockham
entry |3 pages
Odoacer
entry |3 pages
Olaf I
entry |4 pages
Saint Olaf
entry |3 pages
Omar Khayyàm
entry |4 pages
Andrea Orcagna
entry |4 pages
Osman
entry |3 pages
Otto The Great
entry |3 pages
Ou-Yang Hsiu
entry |3 pages
Paul Of Aegina
entry |4 pages
John Pecham
entry |5 pages
Petrus Peregrinus De Maricourt
entry |3 pages
Pérotin
entry |6 pages
Petrarch
entry |4 pages
Philip II
entry |4 pages
Philip IV The Fair
entry |4 pages
Philip The Good
entry |3 pages
Andrea Pisano
entry |3 pages
Nicola Pisano and Giovanni Pisano
entry |4 pages
Marco Polo
entry |3 pages
Priscian
entry |4 pages
Michael Psellus
entry |4 pages
Jeanpucelle
entry |4 pages
Rabanus Maurus
entry |3 pages
Ramanuja
entry |3 pages
Ratramnus
entry |3 pages
Raymond of Peñafort
entry |3 pages
Al-Razi
entry |4 pages
Richard I
entry |4 pages
Richard II
entry |3 pages
Cola Dirienzo
entry |3 pages
Rollo
entry |4 pages
Rudolf I
entry |3 pages
Jalalal-Dinrumi
entry |3 pages
Rurik
entry |3 pages
Sa'di
entry |3 pages
Saladin
entry |3 pages
Salimbene
entry |4 pages
Saxo Grammaticus
entry |4 pages
Sergius I
entry |3 pages
Saint Sergius I
entry |3 pages
Shótoku Taishi
entry |3 pages
Siger Of Brabant
entry |4 pages
Claus Sluter
entry |4 pages
Snorristurluson
entry |3 pages
Ssu-Ma Kuang
entry |4 pages
Stefan Dušan
entry |4 pages
King Stephen
entry |4 pages
Stephen I
entry |4 pages
Su Tung-p'o
entry |4 pages
Suger
entry |3 pages
Sundjata
entry |3 pages
Sung Dynasty
entry |4 pages
Sylvester II
entry |3 pages
Al-Tabari
entry |5 pages
T'ai Tsung
entry |3 pages
Taira Kiyomori
entry |3 pages
Tamerlane
entry |3 pages
Tancred
entry |4 pages
Theodora
entry |5 pages
Theodoric The Great
entry |4 pages
Theoleptus Of Philadelphia
entry |3 pages
Theophanes The Confessor
entry |5 pages
Thomas à Kempis
entry |6 pages
Saint Thomas Aquinas
entry |4 pages
Tu Fu
entry |3 pages
Wat Tyler
entry |4 pages
Unkei
entry |4 pages
Urban Ii
entry |3 pages
Valdemarii
entry |3 pages
Jean De Venette
entry |4 pages
Giovanni Villani
entry |4 pages
Geoffroide Villehardouin
entry |3 pages
Vincent Of Beauvais
entry |3 pages
Philippe Devitry
entry |3 pages
Vladimir I
entry |4 pages
Sir William Wallace
entry |3 pages
Walther Von Der Vogelweide
entry |3 pages
Wang An-Shih
entry |4 pages
Wang Wei
entry |4 pages
Wenceslaus
entry |3 pages
Widukind
entry |5 pages
William Of Auvergne
entry |4 pages
William Of Auxerre
entry |2 pages
William Of Moerbeke
entry |3 pages
William Of Rubrouck
entry |4 pages
William of Saint-Amour
entry |3 pages
William of Saint-Thierry
entry |4 pages
William The Conqueror
entry |4 pages
Wladyslaw II Jagiello and Jadwiga
entry |4 pages
Wolfram Von Eschenbach
entry |4 pages
John Wyclif
entry |2 pages
Yaqut
entry |3 pages
Yen Li-Pen
entry |3 pages
Yo Fei
entry |4 pages
Yung-Lo
entry |5 pages
Zeami Motokiyo
entry |3 pages
Count Jan Žlžka
