9, declaration against usurers by, 174.
Laurentius de Rodulphis, 157, 195, 209.
Law, natural and positive, in relation to property, 64.
Le Blant, 216.
Lecky, 176, 211.
Leo the Great, 146.
Lessius, 117, 124.
Letting, Thomas Aquinas on, 38.
Levasseur, 138, 139, 224.
Leviticus, 163.
_Liberalitas_, its opposing vices, 74.
meaning of, 73.
Liberality, relation to justice, 73.
Lisieux, Bishop of, _see_ Oresme, Nicholas.
List, 146, 224.
Loan, Thomas Aquinas on, 38.
Loans, analogy between sales and, 182.
forced, in the Italian States, 195.
the real nature of, 178.
_Locatio operarum_, 210, 213.
Logic, mediaeval study of, 14.
Loria, 149.
Lucca, _montes pietatis_ at, 196.
_Lucrum cessans_, 185, 186, 195, 202.
recognition of, 187 _et seq._
Lyons, Council of, ordinances against usurers, 175.

Macleod, 218.
_Magnificentia_, duty of, 77.
Maimonides, 164.
Malthusianism, 225.
Mansi, 169.
Mantua, _montes pietatis_ at, 196.
Manufacture, position in the _artes possessivae_, 142 _et seq._
Marcian Capella, 15.
Marriage, attitude of Thomas Aquinas towards, 225.
Marshall, 30.
Martin V., Pope, his bull on rent, 204.
Marx, Karl, theory of value not supported by scholastics, 113, 114.
Mastrofini, his interpretation of a verse of St. Luke, 166.
Maximian, rescript regarding sales, 105.
Mayronis, Francois de, 149, 156.
Mediaeval, interpretation of, 3 _et seq._
Menger, Anton, 199.
Merchant, the, necessity for control of, _see_ Commerce.
Metz-Noblat, de, 183.
Meyer, Rudolph, 198.
Middle Ages, definition of the term by various authorities, 3 _et seq._
early writers of, no reference to economic questions, 13.
Milan, 211.
Mohammed, prohibition of usury by his followers, 160.
Mohammedans, taking of interest by, forbidden, 166.
Monasteries, the, their example in manual labour, 138, 223.
Money, as a form of capital, 201.
a vendible commodity, 158.
changing, see _Cambium_.
different kinds of variation of, 219 _et seq._
ignorance of early Middle Ages regarding, 214 _et seq._
invention of, 103.
most suitable metals for, 219.
not discussed by early mediaeval writers, 14.
sterility of, 180.
the sovereign's power in relation to, 219.
treatment of, by Isidore of Seville, 15.
utility of, as treated by Aristotle, 16.
variations in value of, 216 _et seq._
value of, not to