hamlets if of but a few houses, gather round one or more
mansions of superior size and importance, the Manor houses, or
abodes of the Lords of the respective Manors. Round each
township stretch the great ploughed fields, usually three in
number, open and uninclosed. Each field is divided into a
series of parallel strips a furlong in length, a rod wide,
four of which would make an acre, the strips being separated
by ridges of turf called balks, while along the head of each
series of strips runs a broad band of turf known as a
headland, on which the plough is turned, when it does not by
custom turn on some fellow-tenant's land, and which serves as
a road to the various strips in the fields. These strips are
allotted in rotation to a certain number of the dwellers in
the township, a very common holding being that known as a
virgate or yardland, consisting of about 30 acres. … Mr.
Seebohm's exhaustive researches have conclusively connected
this system of open fields and rotation of strips with the
system of common ploughing, each holder of land providing so
many oxen for the common plough, two being the contribution of
the holder of a virgate, and eight the normal number drawing
the plough, though this would vary with the character of the
soil. … At the date of Domesday (1086), the holders of land
in the common fields comprise the Lord; the free tenants,
socmanni or liberi homines, when there are any; the villani or
Saxon geburs, the holders of virgates or half virgates; and
the bordarii or cotarii, holders of small plots of 5 acres or
so, who have fewer rights and fewer duties. Besides ploughing
the common-fields, the villani as part of their tenure have to
supply the labour necessary to cultivate the arable land that
the Lord of the Manor keeps in his own hands as his domain,
dominicum, or demesne."
T. E. Scrutton,
Commons and Common Fields,
chapter 1.
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Relative to the origin of the manor and the development of the
community from which it rose there are divergent views much
discussed at the present day. "The interpretation, current
fifteen years ago, was the natural outcome of the Mark theory
and was somewhat as follows: The community was a voluntary
association, a simple unit within which there were households
or families of various degrees of wealth, rank and authority,
but in point of status each was the equal of the other. Each
was subject only to the customs and usages of the community
and to the court of the Mark. The Mark was therefore a
judicial and political as well as an agricultural unit, though
cultivation of the soil was the primary bond of union. All
offices were filled by election, but the incumbent in due time
sank back into the general body of 'markgenossen.' He who was
afterwards to be the lord of the manor was originally only the
first Marksman,' who attained to this preeminence in part by
the prestige of election to a position of headship, in part by
usurpation, and in part by the prerogatives which protection
and assistance to weaker Marksmen brought. Thus the first
Marksman became the lord and held the others in a kind of
subjection to himself, and received from them, though free,
dues and services which grew increasingly more severe. The
main difficulty here seems to be in the premise, and it is the
evident artificiality of the voluntary association of freemen
which has led to such adverse criticism upon the whole theory.
… While the free village community was under fire at home as
well as abroad, Mr. Seebohm presented a new view of an exactly
opposite character, with the formula of the community in
villeinage under a lord. Although this view has for the moment
divided thinkers on the subject, it has proved no more
satisfactory than the other; for while it does explain the
origin of the lord of the manor, it leaves wholly untouched
the body of free Saxons whom Earle calls the rank and file of
the invading army. Other theories have sought to supply the
omissions in this vague non-documentary field, all erected
with learning and skill, but unfortunately not in harmony with
one another. Coote and Finlason have given to the manor an
unqualified Roman origin. Lewis holds to a solid British
foundation, the Teutonists would make it wholly Saxon, while
Gomme is inclined to see an Aryo-British community under Saxon
overlordship. Thus there is a wide range from which to select;
all cannot be true; no one is an explanation of all
conditions, yet most of them have considerable sound evidence
to support them. It is this lack of harmony which drives the
student to discover some theory which shall be in touch with
known tribal conditions and a natural consequence of their
development, and which at the same time shall be sufficiently
elastic to conform to the facts which confront us in the early
historical period. An attempt has been made [in the work here
quoted from] to lay down two premises, the first of which is
the composite character of the tribal and village community,
and the second the diverse ethnological conditions of Britain
after the Conquest, conditions which would allow for different
results. … Kemble in his chapter on Personal Rank has a
remark which is ill in keeping with his peaceful Mark theory.
He says: 'There can be no doubt that some kind of military
organization preceded the peaceful settlement, and in many
respects determined its mode and character.' To this statement
Earle has added another equally pregnant: 'Of all principles
of military regiment there is none so necessary or so
elementary as this, that all men must be under a captain, and
such a captain as is able to command prompt and willing
obedience. Upon this military principle I conceive the English
settlements were originally founded, that each several
settlement was under a military leader, and that this military
leader was the ancestor of the lord of the manor.' Professor
Earle then continues in the endeavor to apply the suggestion
contained in the above quotation. He shows that the 'hundreds'
represent the first permanent encampment of the invading host,
and that the military occupation preceded the civil
organization, the latter falling into the mould which the
former had prepared. According to this the manorial
organization was based upon a composite military foundation,
the rank and file composing the one element, the village
community; the captain or military leader composing the other,
settled with suitable provision by the side of his company;
the lord by the side of free owners. In this attempt to give
the manor a composite origin, as the only rational means
whereby the chief difficulty can be removed, and in the
attempt to carry the seignorial element to the very beginning
we believe him to be wholly right. But an objection must be
raised to the way in which Professor Earle makes up his
composite element. It is too artificial, too exclusively
military; the occupiers of the village are the members of the
'company,' the occupier of the adjacent seat is the
'captain,' afterwards to become the lord. … We feel certain
that the local community, the village, was simply the kindred,
the sub-clan group, which had become a local habitation, yet
when we attempt to test its presence in Anglo-Saxon Britain we
meet with many difficulties."
C. McL. Andrews,
The Old English Manor,
pages 7-51.
ALSO IN:
F. Seebohm,
English Village Communities,
chapter 2, section 12.
Sir H. Maine,
Village Communities,
lecture 5.
MANSFIELD, OR
SABINE CROSS ROADS, Battle of.
See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
A. D. 1864 (MARCH-MAY: LOUISIANA).
MANSOURAH, Battle of (1250).
See CRUSADES: A. D. 1248-1254.
MANSUR, Al, Caliph, A. D. 754-775.
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MANTINEA.
"Mantinea was the single city of Arcadia which had dared to
pursue an independent line of policy [see SPARTA: B. C.
743-510]. Not until the Persian Wars the community coalesced
out of five villages into one fortified city; this being done
at the instigation of Argos, which already at this early date
entertained thoughts of forming for itself a confederation in
its vicinity: Mantinea had endeavored to increase its city
and territory by conquest, and after the Peace of Nicias had
openly opposed Sparta."
E. Curtius,
History of Greece,
book 5, chapter 5 (volume 4).
MANTINEA: B. C. 418.
Battle.
See GREECE: B. C. 421-418.
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MANTINEA: B. C. 385.
Destruction by the Spartans.
See GREECE: B. C. 385.
MANTINEA: B. C. 371-362.
Restoration of the city.
Arcadian union and disunion.
The great battle.
Victory and death of Epaminondas.
See GREECE: B. C. 371; and 371-362.
MANTINEA: B. C. 222.
Change of name.
In the war between Cleomenes of Sparta and the Achæan League,
the city of Mantinea was, first, surprised by Aratus, the
chief of the League, B. C. 226, and occupied by an Achæan
garrison; then recaptured by Cleomenes, and his partisans, B.
C. 224, and finally, B. C. 222, stormed by Antigonus, king of
Macedonia, acting in the name of the League, and given up to
pillage. Its citizens were sold into slavery. "The dispeopled
city was placed by the conqueror at the disposal of Argos,
which decreed that a colony should be sent to take possession
of it under the auspices of Aratus. The occasion enabled him
to pay another courtly compliment to the king of Macedonia. On
his proposal, the name of the 'lovely Mantinea'—as it was
described in the Homeric catalogue—was exchanged for that of
Antigonea, a symbol of its ruin and of the humiliation of
Greece."
C. Thirlwall,
History of Greece,
chapter 62 (volume 8).
MANTINEA: B. C. 207.
Defeat of the Lacedæmonians.
In the wars of the Achæan League, the Lacedæmonians were
defeated under the walls of Mantinea with great slaughter, by
the forces of the League, ably marshalled by Philopœmen, and
the Lacedaemonian king Machanidas was slain. "It was the third
great battle fought on the same, or nearly the same, ground.
Here, in the interval between the two parts of the
Peloponnesian War, had Agis restored the glory of Sparta after
her humiliation at Sphakteria; here Epameinôndas had fallen in
the moment of victory; here now [B. C. 207] was to be fought
the last great battle of independent Greece."
E. A. Freeman,
History of Federal Government,
chapter 8, section 2.
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MANTUA: 11-12th Centuries.
Rise and acquisition of republican independence.
See ITALY: A. D. 1056-1152.
MANTUA: A. D. 1077-1115.
In the dominions of the Countess Matilda.
See PAPACY: A. D. 1077-1102.
MANTUA: A. D. 1328-1708.
The house of Gonzaga.
See GONZAGA.
MANTUA: A. D. 1627-1631.
War of France, Spain and the Empire over the disputed
succession to the duchy.
Siege and capture of the city by the Imperialists.
Rights of the Duke de Nevers established.
See ITALY: A. D. 1627-1631.
MANTUA: A. D. 1635.
Alliance with France against Spain.
See GERMANY: A. D. 1634-1639.
MANTUA: A. D. 1796-1797.
Siege and reduction by the French.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1796 (APRIL-OCTOBER);
and 1796-1797 (OCTOBER-APRIL).
MANTUA: A. D. 1797.
Ceded by Austria to the Cisalpine Republic.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1797 (MAY-OCTOBER).
MANTUA: A. D. 1799.
Siege and capture by Suwarrow.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1799 (APRIL-SEPTEMBER).
MANTUA: A. D. 1814.
Restoration to Austria.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1814 (APRIL-JUNE).
MANTUA: A. D. 1866.
The Austrians retained Mantua until their final withdrawal
from the peninsula, in 1866, when it was absorbed in the new
kingdom of Italy.
MANU, Laws of.
"The Indians [of Hindostan] possess a series of books of law,
which, like that called after Manu, bear the name of a saint
or seer of antiquity, or of a god. One is named after Gautama,
another after Vasishtha, a third after Apastamba, a fourth
after Yajnavalkya; others after Bandhayana and Vishnu.
According to the tradition of the Indians the law of Manu is
the oldest and most honourable. … The conclusion is …
inevitable that the decisive precepts which we find in the
collection must have been put together and written down about
the year 600 [B. C.]."
M. Duncker,
History of Antiquity,
book 5, chapter 6.
"The name, 'Laws of Manu,' somewhat resembles a 'pious fraud';
for the 'Laws' are merely the laws or customs of a school or
association of Hindus, called the Manavas, who lived in the
country rendered holy by the divine river Saraswati. In this
district the Hindus first felt themselves a settled people,
and in this neighbourhood they established colleges and
hermitages, or 'asramas,' from some of which we may suppose
Brahmanas, Upanishads, and other religious compositions may
have issued; and under such influences we may imagine the Code
of Manu to have been composed."
Mrs. Manning,
Ancient and Mediæval India,
volume 1, page 276.
MANUAL TRAINING.
See EDUCATION, MODERN: REFORMS, &C.: A. D. 1865-1886.
MANUEL I. (Comnenus),
Emperor in the East (Byzantine, or Greek), A. D. 1143-1181.
Manuel II. (Palæologus),
Greek Emperor of Constantinople, 1391-1425.
MANX KINGDOM, The.
The Isle of Man in the Irish Sea gets its English name, Man,
by an abbreviation of the native name, Mannin, the origin of
which is unknown. The language, called Manx (now little used),
and the inhabitants, called Manxmen, are both of Gaelic, or
Irish derivation. From the sixth to the tenth century the
island was successively ruled by the Scots (Irish), the Welsh
and the Norwegians, finally becoming a separate petty kingdom,
with Norwegian claims upon it. In the thirteenth century the
little kingdom was annexed to Scotland. Subsequently, after
various vicissitudes, it passed under English control and was
granted by Henry IV. to Sir John Stanley. The Stanleys, after
some generations, found a dignity which they esteemed higher,
in the earldom of Derby, and relinquished the title of King of
Man. This was done by the second Earl of Derby, 1505. In 1765
the sovereignty and revenues of the island were purchased by
the British government; but its independent form of government
has undergone little change. It enjoys "home rule" to
perfection. It has its own legislature, called the Court of
Tynwald, consisting of a council, or upper chamber, and a
representative body called the House of Keys. Acts of the
imperial parliament do not apply to the Isle of Man unless it
is specifically named in them. It has its own courts, with
judges called deemsters (who are the successors of the ancient
Druidical priests), and its own governor, appointed by the
crown. The divisions of the island, corresponding to English
counties, are called sheadings.
S. Walpole,
The Land of Home Rule.
ALSO IN:
H. I. Jenkinson,
Guide to Isle of Man.
Hall Caine,
The Little Manx Nation.
Our Own Country,
volume 5.
See
MONAPIA:
and NORMANS: 8TH-9TH CENTURIES.
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MANZIKERT, Battle of (1071).
See TURKS: A. D. 1063-1073.
MAONITES, The.
"We must … regard them as a remnant of the Amorites, which,
in later times, … spread to the west of Petra."
H. Ewald,
History of Israel,
introduction, section 4.
MAORIS.
MAORI WAR.
See NEW ZEALAND: THE ABORIGINES: A. D. 1853-1883;
also, MALAYAN RACE.
MAPOCHINS, The.
See CHILE: A. D. 1450-1724.
MAQUAHUITL, The.
This was a weapon in use among the Mexicans when the Spaniards
found them. It "was a stout stick, three feet and a half long,
and about four inches broad, armed on each side with a sort of
razors of the stone itztli (obsidian), extraordinarily sharp,
fixed and firmly fastened to the stick with gum lack. … The
first stroke only was to be feared, for the razors became soon
blunt."
F. S. Clavigero,
History of Mexico,
book 7.
ALSO IN:
Sir A. Helps,
The Spanish Conquest of America,
book 10 (volume 2).
MARACANDA.
The chief city of the ancient Sogdiani, in Central Asia—now
Samarcand.
MARAGHA.
See PERSIA: A. D. 1258-1393.
MARAIS, OR PLAIN, The Party of the.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1792 (SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER).
MARANHA, The.
See AMERICAN ABORIGINES: GUCK OR COCO GROUP.
MARANGA, Battle of.
One of the battles fought by the Romans with the Persians
during the retreat from Julian's fatal expedition beyond the
Tigris, A. D. 363. The Persians were repulsed.
G. Rawlinson,
Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy,
chapter 10.
MARAPHIANS, The.
One of the tribes of the ancient Persians.
M. Duncker,
History of Antiquity,
book 8, chapter 3.
MARAT AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1790, to 1793 (MARCH-JUNE).
Assassination by Charlotte Corday.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1793 (JULY).
MARATA.
See AMERICAN ABORIGINES: PUEBLOS.
MARATHAS.
See MAHRATTAS.
MARATHON, Battle of.
See GREECE: B. C. 490.
MARAVEDIS.
See SPANISH COINS.
MARBURG CONFERENCE, The.
See SWITZERLAND: A. D. 1528-1531.
MARCEL, Etienne, and the States General of France.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1356-1358.
MARCELLUS II., Pope, A. D. 1555, April to May.
MARCH.
MARK.
The frontier or boundary of a territory; a border. Hence came
the title of Marquis, which was originally that of an officer
charged with the guarding of some March or border district of
a kingdom. In Great Britain this title ranks second in the
five orders of nobility, only the title of Duke being superior
to it. The old English kingdom of Mercia was formed by the
Angles who were first called the "Men of the March," having
settled on the Welsh border, and that was the origin of its
name. The kingdom of Prussia grew out of the "Mark of
Brandenburg," which was originally a military border district
formed on the skirts of the German empire to resist the Wends.
Various other European states had the same origin.
See, also, MARGRAVE.
MARCH CLUB.
See CLUBS: THE OCTOBER AND THE MARCH.
MARCHFELD OR MARSCHFELD, Battle of the (1278).
See AUSTRIA: A. D. 1246-1282.
(1809) (also called the battle of Aspern-Esslingen,
or of Aspern).
See GERMANY: A. D. 1809 (JANUARY-JUNE).
MARCIAN, Roman Emperor (Eastern), A. D. 450-457.
MARCIANAPOLIS.
See GOTHS: A. D. 244-251.
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MARCOMANNI AND QUADI, The.
"The Marcomanni [an ancient German people who dwelt, first, on
the Rhine, but afterwards occupied southern Bohemia] stand
first in strength and renown, and their very territory, from
which the Boii were driven in a former age, was won by valour.
Nor are the Narisci [settled in the region of modern Ratisbon]
and Quadi [who probably occupied Moravia] inferior to them.
This I may call the frontier of Germany, so far as it is
completed by the Danube. The Marcomanni and Quadi have, up to
our time, been ruled by kings of their own nation, descended
from the noble stock of Maroboduus and Tudrus. They now submit
even to foreigners; but the strength and power of the monarch
depend on Roman influence."
Tacitus,
Germany, translated by Church and Brodribb,
chapter 42.
"The Marcomanni cannot be demonstrated as a distinct people
before Marbod. It is very possible that the word up to that
point indicates nothing but what it etymologically
signifies—the land or frontier guard."
T. Mommsen,
History of Rome,
book 5, chapter 7, foot-note.
See, also, AGRI DECUMATES.
MARCOMANNI AND QUADI:
War with Tiberius.
See GERMANY: B. C. 8-A. D. 11.
MARCOMANNI AND QUADI:
Wars with Marcus Aurelius.
See SARMATIAN AND MARCOMANNIAN WARS
OF MARCUS AURELIUS.
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MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS,
Roman Emperor, A. D. 161-180.
MARDIA, Battle of (A. D. 313).
See ROME: A. D. 305-323.
MARDIANS, The.
One of the tribes of the ancient Persians;
also called Amardians.
M. Duncker,
History of Antiquity,
book 8, chapter 3.
See, also, TAPURIANS.
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MARDYCK: A. D. 1645-1646.
Thrice taken and retaken by French and Spaniards.
See NETHERLANDS: A. D. 1645-1646.
MARDYCK: A. D. 1657.
Siege and capture by the French.
Delivery to the English.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1655-1658.
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MARENGO, Battle of (1800).
See FRANCE: A. D. 1800-1801 (MAY-FEBRUARY).
MARFEE, Battle of (1641).
See FRANCE: A. D. 1641-1642.
MARGARET,
Queen of the North: Denmark and Norway, A. D. 1387-1412;
Sweden, 1388-1412.
Margaret (called The Maid of Norway),
Queen of Scotland, 1286-1290.
Margaret of Anjou, and the Wars of the Roses.
See ENGLAND: A. D. 1455-1471.
Margaret of Navarre, or Marguerite d'Angouléme,
and the Reformation in France.
See PAPACY: A.D. 1521-1535;
and NAVARRE: A.D. 1528-1563.
Margaret of Parma and her Regency in the Netherlands.
See NETHERLANDS: A. D. 1555-1559, and after.
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MARGHUSH.
See MARGIANA.
MARGIANA.
The ancient name of the valley of the Murghab or Moorghab
(called the Margos). It is represented at the present day by
the oasis now called Merv; was the Bactrian Mourn and the
Marghush of the old Persians. It was inhabited by the
Margiani.
M. Duncker,
History of Antiquity,
book 7, chapter 1.
MARGRAVE.
MARQUIS.
"This of Markgrafs (Grafs of the Marches, 'marked' Places, or
Boundaries) was a natural invention in that state of
circumstances [the circumstances of the Germany of the 10th
century, under Henry the Fowler]. It did not quite originate
with Henry; but was much perfected by him, he first
recognising how essential it was. On all frontiers he had his
'Graf' (Count, 'Reeve,' 'G'reeve,' whom some think to be only
'Grau,' Gray, or 'Senior,' the hardiest, wisest steel-gray man
he could discover) stationed on the Marck, strenuously doing
watch and ward there: the post of difficulty, of peril, and
naturally of honour too, nothing of a sinecure by any means.
Which post, like every other, always had a tendency to become
hereditary, if the kindred did not fail in fit men. And hence
have come the innumerable Margraves, Marquises, and such like,
of modern times; titles now become chimerical, and more or
less mendacious, as most of our titles are."
T. Carlyle,
Frederick the Great,
book 2, chapter 1.
"The title derived from the old imperial office of markgrave
[margrave], 'comes marchensis,' or count of the marches, had
belonged to several foreigners who were brought into relation
with England in the twelfth century; the duke of Brabant was
marquess of Antwerp, and the count of Maurienne marquess of
Italy; but in France the title was not commonly used until the
seventeenth century, and it is possible that it came to
England direct from Germany. … The fact that, within a
century of its introduction into England, it was used in so
unmeaning a designation as the marquess of Montague, shows
that it had lost all traces of its original application."
W. Stubbs,
Constitutional History of England,
chapter 20, section 751.
See MARCH; also, GRAF.
MARGUS, Treaty of.
A treaty which Attila the Hun extorted from the Eastern Roman
Emperor, Theodosius, A. D. 434,—called by Sismondi "the most
shameful treaty that ever monarch signed." It gave up to the
savage king every fugitive from his vengeance or his jealousy
whom he demanded, and even the Roman captives who had escaped
from his bonds. It promised, moreover, an annual tribute to
him of 700 pounds of gold.
J. C. L. de Sismondi,
Fall of the Roman Empire,
chapter 7 (volume 1).
MARHATTAS.
See MAHRATTAS.
MARIA,
Queen of Hungary, A. D. 1399-1437.
Maria, Queen of Sicily, 1377-1402.
Maria I., Queen of Portugal, 1777-1807.
Maria II., Queen of Portugal, 1826-1853.
Maria Theresa, Archduchess of Austria and
Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, 1745-1780.
MARIA THERESA, The military order of.
See GERMANY: A. D. 1757 (APRIL-JUNE).
MARIANA.
See NEW ENGLAND: A. D. 1621-1631.
MARIANDYNIANS, The.
See BITHYNIANS.
MARIANS, The.
See ROME: B. C. 88-78.
MARICOPAS, The.
See AMERICAN ABORIGINES: PUEBLOS.
MARIE ANTOINETTE,
Imprisonment, trial and execution of.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1792 (AUGUST);
and 1793 (SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER).
Marie Louise of Austria, Napoleon's marriage to.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1810-1812.
Marie de Medicis, The regency and the intrigues of.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1610-1619, to 1630-1632.
Marie.
See, also, MARY.
MARIETTA, OHIO:
The Settlement and Naming of the town.
See NORTHWEST TERRITORY: A. D. 1786-1788.
MARIGNANO, OR MELIGNANO, Battle of.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1515.
MARINUS, Pope.
See MARTIN.
MARIOLATRY, Rise of.
See NESTORIAN AND MONOPHYSITE CONTROVERSY.
MARION, Francis, and the partisan warfare in the Carolinas.
See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
A. D. 1780 (AUGUST-DECEMBER), and 1780-1781.
MARIPOSAN F AMIL Y, The.
See AMERICAN ABORIGINES: MARIPOSAN FAMILY.
MARITIME PROVINCES.
The British American provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick,
Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland, are commonly referred
to as the Maritime Provinces.
MARIUS AND SULLA, The civil war of.
See ROME: B. C. 88-78.
MARIZZA, Battle of the (1363).
See TURKS (THE OTTOMANS): A. D. 1360-1389.
MARJ DABIK, Battle of (1516).
See TURKS: A. D. 1481-1520.
MARK.
A border.
See MARCH, MARK.
MARK, The.
"The theory of the Mark, or as it is more generally called in
its later form, the free village community, has been an
accepted hypothesis for the historical and economic world for
more than half a century. Elaborated and expanded by the
writings of Kemble in England and v. Maurer in Germany, taken
up by later English writers and given wide currency through
the works of Sir Henry Maine, Green, and Freeman, it has been
accepted and extended by scores of historical writers on this
side of the Atlantic as well as the other until it has become
a commonplace in literature. Firm as has been its hold and
important as has been its work, it is almost universally
conceded that further modification or entire rejection must be
the next step to be taken in the presence of the more thorough
and scholarly research which is becoming prominent, and before
all questions can be answered which this study brings to
light. A change has taken place in the thought upon this
subject; a reaction against the idealism of the political
thinkers of half a century ago. The history of the hypothesis
forms an interesting chapter in the relation between modern
thought and the interpretation of past history, and shows that
in the formation of an opinion both writer and reader are
unconsciously dependent upon the spirit of the age in which
they live. The free village community, as it is commonly
understood, standing at the dawn of English and German history
is discoverable in no historical documents, and for that
reason it has been accepted by prudent scholars with caution.
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But the causes which have made it a widely acceptable
hypothesis and have served to entrench it firmly in the mind
of scholar and reader alike, have easily supplied what was
wanting in the way of exact material, and have led to
conclusions which are now recognized as often too hazy,
historically inaccurate, though agreeable to the thought
tendencies of the age. … The Mark as defined by Kemble, who
felt in this interpretation the influence of the German
writers, … was a district large or small with a well-defined
boundary, containing certain proportions of heath, forest, fen
and pasture. Upon this tract of land were communities of
families or households, originally bound by kindred or tribal
ties, but who had early lost this blood relationship and were
composed of freemen, voluntarily associated for mutual support
and tillage of the soil, with commonable rights in the land
within the Mark. The Marks were entirely independent, having
nothing to do with each other, self-supporting and isolated,
until by continual expansion they either federated or
coalesced into larger communities. Such communities varying in
size covered England, internally differing only in minor
details, in all other respects similar. This view of the Mark
had been taken already more or less independently by v. Maurer
in Germany, and five years after the appearance of Kemble's
work, there was published the first of the series of volumes
which have rendered Maurer's name famous as the establisher of
the theory. As his method was more exact, his results were
built upon a more stable foundation than were those of Kemble,
but in general the two writers did not greatly differ."
C. McL. Andrews,
The Old English Manor,
pages 1-6.
ALSO IN:
J. M. Kemble,
The Saxons in England,
book 1, chapter 2.
E. A. Freeman,
History of the Norman Conquest,
chapter 3, section 2.
W. Stubbs,
Constitutional History of England,
chapter 3, section 24 (volume 1).
See, also, MANOR.
MARKLAND.
See AMERICA: 10TH-11TH CENTURIES.
MARKS, Spanish.
See SPANISH COINS.
MARLBOROUGH, John Churchill, Duke of;
and the fall of the English Whigs.
See ENGLAND: A. D. 1710-1712.
Campaigns.
See NETHERLANDS: A. D. 1702-1704, to 17101712;
and GERMANY: A. D. 1704.
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MAROCCO:
Ancient.
See MAURETANIA.
MAROCCO:
The Arab conquest, and since.
The tide of Mahometan conquest, sweeping across North Africa
(see MAHOMETAN CONQUEST: A. D. 647-709), burst upon Marocco in
698. "Eleven years were required to overcome the stubborn
resistance of the Berbers, who, however, when once conquered,
submitted with a good grace and embraced the new creed with a
facility entirely in accordance with the adaptive nature they
still exhibit. Mingled bands of Moors and Arabs passed over
into Spain, under Tarik and Moossa, and by the defeat of
Roderic at the battle of Guadalete, in 711, the foundation of
their Spanish empire was laid [see SPAIN: A. D. 711-713], on
which was afterwards raised the magnificent fabric of the
Western Khalifate. This is not the place to dwell on the
glories of their dominion. … Suffice it to say, that a
reflection of this glory extended to Marocco, where the
libraries and universities of Fez and Marocco City told of the
learning introduced by wise men, Moorish and Christian alike,
who pursued their studies without fear of interruption on the
score of religious belief. The Moors in the days of their
greatness, be it observed, were far more liberal-minded than
the Spanish Catholics afterwards showed themselves, and
allowed Christians to practise their own religion in their own
places of worship—in striking contrast to the fanaticism of
their descendants in Marocco at the present day. … The
intervals of repose under the rule of powerful and enlightened
monarchs, during which the above-mentioned institutions
flourished, were nevertheless comparatively rare, and the
general history of Marocco during the Moorish dominion in
Spain seems to have been one monotonous record of strife
between contending tribes and dynasties. Early in the tenth
century, the Berbers got the mastery of the Arabs, who never
afterwards appear in the history of the country except under
the general name of Moors. Various principalities were formed
[11-13th centuries—see ALMORAVIDES and ALMOHADES], of which
the chief were Fez, Marocco, and Tafilet, though now and
again, and especially under the Marin dynasty, in the 13th
century, the two former were consolidated into one kingdom. In
the 15th century the successes of the Spaniards caused the
centre of Moorish power to shift from Spain to Marocco. In the
declining days of the Hispano-Moorish empire, and after its
final extinction, the Spaniards and Portuguese revenged
themselves on their conquerors by attacking the coast-towns of
Marocco, many of which they captured. It is not improbable
that they would eventually have possessed themselves of the
entire country, but for the disastrous defeat of King
Sebastian in 1578, at the battle of the Three Kings, on the
banks of the Wad El Ma Hassen, near Alcazar [see PORTUGAL: A.
D. 1579-1580]. This was the turning-point in Moorish history,
and an African Creasy would have to rank the conflict at
Alcazar among the decisive battles of the continent. With the
rout and slaughter of the Portuguese fled the last chance of
civilizing the country, which from that period gradually
relapsed into a state of isolated barbarism. … For 250 years
the throne has been in the hands of members of the Shereefian
family of Fileli, who have remained practically undisputed
masters of the whole of the empire. All this time, as in the
earlier classical ages, Marocco has been practically shut out
from the world. … The chief events of importance in Moorish
affairs in the present century were the defeat of the Moors by
the French at the battle of Isly [see BARBARY STATES: A. D.
1830-1846], near the Algerian frontier, in 1844, and the
subsequent bombardment of Mogador and the coast-towns, and the
Spanish war which terminated in 1860 with the peace of Tetuan.
These reverses taught the Moors the power of European states,
and brought about a great improvement in the position of
Christians in the country. The Government of Marocco is in
effect a kind of' graduated despotism, where every official,
while possessing complete authority over those beneath him,
must render absolute submission to his superiors. The supreme
power is vested in the Sultan, the head of the State in all
things spiritual and temporal. … Of the ultimate dissolution
of the Moorish dominion there can be little doubt. …
European States have long had their eyes upon it, but the same
mutual distrust and jealousy which preserves the decaying fabric
of the Turkish Empire has hitherto done the like for Marocco,
whose Sultan serves the same purpose on the Straits of
Gibraltar as the Turkish Sultan does on the Bosphorus."
H. E. M. Stutfield,
El Maghreb,
chapter 16.
See, also, BARBARY STATES.
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MARONITES, The.
See MONOTHELITE CONTROVERSY.
MAROONS.
See JAMAICA: A. D. 1655-1796.
MARQUETTE'S EXPLORATIONS.
See CANADA: A. D. 1634-1673.
MARQUIS.
See MARGRAVE.
MARRANA, The.
An ancient ditch running from Alba to Rome,—being part of a
channel by which the Vale of Grotta was drained.
B. G. Niebuhr,
Lectures on Ancient Ethnography and Geography.,
volume 2, page 50.
MARRANOS.
See INQUISITION: A. D. 1203-1525.
MARRIAGE, Republican.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1793-1794 (OCTOBER-APRIL).
MARRUCINIANS, The.
See SABINES.
MARS' HILL.
See AREOPAGUS.
MARSAGLIA, Battle of.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1693 (OCTOBER).
MARSCHFELD.
See MARCHFELD.
MARSEILLAISE, The.
Origin of the Song.
Its introduction into Paris.
In preparation for the insurrection of August 10, 1792, which
overthrew the French monarchy, and made the Revolution begun
in 1789 complete, the Jacobins had summoned armed bands of
their supporters from an parts of France, ostensibly as
volunteers to join the army on the frontier, but actually and
immediately as a reinforcement for the attack which they had
planned to make on the king at the Tuileries.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1792 (JUNE-AUGUST).
Among the "fédérés" who came was a battalion of 500 from
Marseilles, which arrived at the capital on the 30th of July.
"This battalion has been described by every historian as a
collection of the vagabonds who are always to be found in a
great seaport town, and particularly in one like Marseilles,
where food was cheap and lodging unnecessary. But their
character has lately been vindicated, and it has been shown
that these Marseillais were picked men from the national
guards of Marseilles, like the other fédérés, and contained
the most hardy as well as the most revolutionary men of the
city. …. They left Marseilles 513 strong, with two guns, on
July 2, and had been marching slowly across France, singing
the immortal war song to which they gave their name. … The
'Marseillaise' had in itself no very radical history. On April
24, 1792, just after the declaration of war, the mayor of
Strasbourg, Dietrich, who was himself no advanced republican,
but a constitutionalist, remarked at a great banquet that it
was very sad that all the national war songs of France could
not be sung by her present defenders, because they all treated
of loyalty to the king and not to the nation as well. One of
the guests was a young captain of engineers, Rouget de Lisle,
who had in 1791 composed a successful 'Hymne à la Liberté,'
and Dietrich appealed to him to compose something suitable.
The young man was struck by the notion, and during the night
he was suddenly inspired with both words and air, and on the
following day he sang over to Dietrich's guests the famous
song which was to be the war-song of the French Republic.
Madame Dietrich arranged the air for the orchestra; Rouget de
Lisle dedicated it to Marshal Lückner, as the 'Chant de guerre
pour l'armée du Rhin,' and it at once became popular in
Strasbourg. Neither Dietrich nor Rouget were advanced
republicans. The watchword of the famous song was not 'Sauvons
la République,' but' Sauvons la Patrie.' The air was a taking
one. From Strasbourg it quickly spread over the south of
France, and particularly attracted the patriots of Marseilles.
… There are many legends on the origin of the
'Marseillaise'; the account here followed is that given by
Amedée Rouget de Lisle, the author's nephew, in his 'La verité
sur la paternité de la Marseillaise,' Paris, 1865, which is
confirmed by a letter of Madame Dietrich's, written at the
time, and first published in 'Souvenirs d' Alsace—Rouget de
Lisle à Strasbourg et a Huningue,' by Adolphe Morpain."
H. M. Stephens,
History of the French Revolution,
volume 2, page 114-115.
A quite different but less trustworthy
version of the story may be found in
A. de Lamartine
History of the Girondists,
book 16, section 26-30 (volume 1).
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MARSEILLES:
The founding of.
See ASIA MINOR: B. C. 724-539,
and PHOCÆANS.
MARSEILLES: B. C. 49.
Conquest by Cæsar.
See ROME: B. C. 49.
MARSEILLES: 10th Century.
In the kingdom of Aries.
See BURGUNDY: A. D. 843-933.
MARSEILLES: 11th Century.
The Viscounts of.
See BURGUNDY: A. D. 1032.
MARSEILLES: 12th Century.
Prosperity and freedom.
See PROVENCE: A. D. 1179-1207.
MARSEILLES: A. D. 1524.
Unsuccessful siege by the Spaniards and the Constable Bourbon.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1523-1525.
MARSEILLES: A. D. 1792.
The Marseillais sent to Paris, and their war-song.
See MARSEILLAISE.
MARSEILLES: A. D. 1793.
Revolt against the Revolutionary Government at Paris.
Fearful vengeance of the Terrorists.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1793 (JUNE), (JULY-DECEMBER);
and 1793-1794 (OCTOBER-APRIL).
MARSEILLES: A. D. 1795.
Reaction against the Reign of Terror.
The White Terror.
See FRANCE: A. D. 1794-1795 (JULY-APRIL).
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MARSHAL, The.
See CONSTABLE.
MARSHALL, John,
and the Federal Constitution of the United States.
See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1787-1789;
and SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.
MARSI, The.
See SAXONS; also, FRANKS.
MARSIAN WAR, The.
See ROME: B. C. 90-88.
MARSIANS, The.
See SABINES;
also, ITALY: ANCIENT.
MARSIGNI, The.
The Marsigni were an ancient German tribe who inhabited "what
is now Galatz, Jagerndorf and part of Silesia."
Tacitus,
Germany;
Oxford translation, foot-note.
MARSTON MOOR, Battle of.
See ENGLAND: A. D. 1644 (JANUARY-JULY).
MARTHA'S VINEYARD:
Named by Gosnold.
See AMERICA: A. D. 1602-1605.
MARTIN,
King of Aragon, A. D. 1395-1410;
King of Sicily, A. D. 1409-1410.
Martin I., Pope, 649-655.
Martin I., King of Sicily, 1402-1409.
Martin II. (or Marinus I.), Pope, 882-884.
Martin II., King of Sicily, 1409-1410.
Martin III. (or Marinus II.), Pope, 942-946.
Martin IV., Pope, 1281-1285.
Martin V., Pope, 1417-1431 (elected by the Council of Constance).
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MARTLING MEN.
In February, 1806, when DeWitt Clinton and his political
followers were organizing opposition to Governor Lewis, and
were forming an alliance to that end with the political
friends of Aaron Burr, a meeting of Republicans (afterwards
called Democrats) was held at "Martling's Long Room," in New
York City. Hence Mr. Clinton's Democratic opponents, "for a
long time afterwards, were known in other parts of the state
by the name of Martling Men."
J. D. Hammond,
History of Political Parties in the State of New York,
volume 1, page 230.
MARY
(called Mary Tudor), Queen of England, A. D. 1553-1558.
Mary of Burgundy, The Austrian marriage of.
See NETHERLANDS: A. D. 1477.
Mary II., Queen of England
(with King William III., her consort), 1689-1694.
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, 1542-1567.
See SCOTLAND: A. D. 1544-1548, to 1561-1568;
and ENGLAND: A. D. 1585-1587.
Mary.
See, also, MARIE.
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MARYLAND: A. D. 1632.
The charter granted to Lord Baltimore.
An American palatinate.
"Among those who had become interested in the London or
Virginia, Company, under its second charter, in 1609, was Sir
George Calvert, afterwards the founder of Maryland. … Upon
the dissolution of the Virginia Company … he was named by
the king one of the royal commissioners to whom the government
of that colony was confided. Hitherto he had been a
Protestant, but in 1624, having become unsettled in his
religious convictions, he renounced the church of England, in
which he had been bred, and embraced the faith of the Catholic
church. Moved by conscientious scruples, he determined no
longer to hold the office of secretary of state [conferred on
him in 1619], which would make him, in a manner, the
instrument of persecution against those whose faith he had
adopted, and tendered his resignation to the king. … The
king, … while he accepted his resignation, continued him as
a member of his privy council for life, and soon after created
him Lord Baltimore, of Baltimore, in Ireland. The spirit of
intolerance at that time pervaded England. … The laws
against the Catholics in England were particularly severe and
cruel, and rendered it impossible for any man to practice his
religion in quiet and safety. Sir George Calvert felt this;
and although he was assured of protection from the gratitude
and affection of the king, he determined to seek another land
and to found a new state, where conscience should be free and
every man might worship God according to his own heart, in
peace and perfect security. … At first he fixed his eyes on
New-found-land, in the settlement of which he had been
interested before his conversion. … Having purchased a ship,
he sailed with his family to that island, in which, a few
years before, he had obtained a grant of a province under the
name of Avalon. Here he only resided two years [see
NEWFOUNDLAND: A. D. 1610-1655], when he found the climate and
soil unsuited for the establishment of a flourishing
community, and determined to seek a more genial country in the
south. Accordingly, in 1628, he sailed to Virginia, with the
intention of settling in the limits of that colony, or more
probably to explore the uninhabited country on its borders, in
order to secure a grant of it from the king. Upon his arrival
within the jurisdiction of the colony, the authorities
tendered him the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, to which,
as then framed, no Catholic could subscribe. Lord Baltimore
refused to take them, but prepared a form of an oath of
allegiance which he and all his followers were willing to
accept. His proposal was rejected, and being compelled to
leave their waters, he explored the Chesapeake above the
settlements. He was pleased with the beautiful and well wooded
country, which surrounded the noble inlets and indentations of
the great bay, and determined there to found his principality.
… He returned to England to obtain a grant from Charles I,
who had succeeded his father, James I, upon the throne.
Remembering his services to his father, and perhaps moved by
the intercessions of Henrietta Maria, his Catholic queen, who