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Mary Stuart. 1542-87. Queen of Scots 1542-67. Abdicated. Married Francis II. Queen of France 1559-60. Married Darnley 1565. Married Bothwell 1567, causing Scottish Revolt. Beheaded with Babington by Elizabeth I. Mother of James I.
McPherson, Aimee Semple.1890-1944. Controversial Canadian/US Pentacostal evangelist.
Medieval Art. 10-13C. Religious Gothic.
Meir, Golda. 1898-1978. Israeli Labour Prime Minister 1969-74.
Melilla. Spanish city on Moroccan coast conquered 1497. Berbers.
Melville, Herman. 1819-91. US novelist. Moby Dick 1851.
Mendelssohn-(Bartholdy), Felix. 1809-47. German Classical Romantic melodic composer. Hebrides 1829.
Mendicant Friars. 13C-. Religious orders depending on alms. Franciscans, Dominicans, Augustinians, Carmelites.
Meredith, George. 1828-1909. English manners novelist. Intellectual, witty and poetic. Ordeal 1859. Egoist 1879. Dianna of the Crossways 1885.
Merezhkovsky, Dmitri. 1865-1941. Russian historical novelist. Christ and Antichrist 1896-1905.
Methodism. Protestant religious movement founded by Wesley 1729. Moravian, Calvinistic evangelical.
Michelin, André. 1853-1931. Founded guide book 1900. Brother of Édouard.
Michelin, Édouard. 1859-1940. First removable pneumatic tires for bicycles 1888, for cars 1895.
Middleton, Thomas. 1570-1627. English satiric dramatist. Changeling 1622. Woman Beware Women 1621.
Midianites. Biblical tribe of Arabia. = Ishmaelites.
Milan, Edict of. 313. Constantine grants freedom of religion to Christians.
Millais, John. 1829-1896. British Pre-Raphaelite painter. Christ in the House of His Parents 1850.
Millenialism. Belief in the Millenium, 1000 Year reign of Christ before world ends.
Miller, Henry. 1891-1980. US autobiographical novelist. Tropic of Cancer 1934. Tropic of Capricorn 1939. Works banned in US for sexual content until 1964.
Mitchell, Margaret. 1900-49. US novelist. Gone with the Wind 1936.
Modernism. Early 20C literary movement. Lawrence. Eliot. Yeats.
Monophysitism. 4C- Heretical Christian doctrine. Jesus has single divine nature. Coptics. Monothelitism. Nestorianism. Dualism. Chalcedon.
Monotheism. Religious doctrine holding that there is only one God.
Monothelitism. 622-713. Christian heresy. Jesus had human and divine natures but only divine will. Monophysitism.
Montgomery, L.M. 1874-1942. Canadian Romantic children’s novelist. Anne of Green Gables 1908.