Bagdad, 180, 182-85 , 198, 227, 309, 328, 549, 557
Baian, Khagan of the Avars, 140
Bailli, 269, 492, 507-10
Bajazet, Sultan of Turkey, 556-57
Balance of power, 578, 634
Baldwin, Count of Edessa, 319
Baldwin, Count of Flanders, 270
Baldwin, Latin Emperor, 465
Balearic Islands, 83, 118, 135, 189, 304
Balkan Mountains, 17, 22, 54, 76, 151, 442, 548
Balkan peninsula, 76-79 , 87, 131, 138, 140, 151, 228, 314, 328, 453, 466, 553-56 , 558
Balkan peoples and states, 151,228; and see Bulgaria, Roumania, Serbia, etc.
Baltic Sea, 11-12 , 17, 40, 42, 54, 139-40, 184, 305-06 , 328, 367, 369, 532, 543-46 , 552, 558, 608
Baltic Slavs, 305, 323
Bamberg, 319
Ban of Bosnia, 445
Banking, 34, 325, 336, 355 , 494, 500, 584-85
Bannockburn, battle of, 485, 488, 499
Bapaume, 366
Baptism, 72, 101, 294, 335, 439; and see Font
Baptisteries, 419, 601, 603-04
Barbarians, in Roman Empire, 23, 67-68; outside Roman Empire, chap. iii ; Justinian and, 131, 138, 150; of eastern Europe, 229; and see Invasions, Nomads, etc.
Barbarossa, see Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
Barcelona, 81, 149, 188-89, 200, 273, 303, 357, 366, 375, 456
Bari, 226-27, 302; Archbishop of, 565
Barons, English, 459-60, 466, 474, 480-85, 488, 496, 533
Basel, 368, 538; Council of, 571, 573, 575
Basil, St., ill, 113
Basil I, Byzantine Emperor, 227
Basil II, 308
Basilica, 32, 113, 143, 145-46 , 419-21
Basques, 10, 167, 200, 203, 272
Bas-relief, 603
Bathing, 43-44, 57, 110-11, 160, 175
Baths (buildings), 32, 126, 185
Battle of the Spurs, 499
Battlements, 247-48, 600
Batu, grandson of Jenghiz Khan, 548
Bavaria and Bavarians, 118, 122, 140, 168, 194, 199-200, 203, 212-13, 227, 259, 262, 264, 349, 392, 435, 533, 539-40, 552, 561, 575, 616
Bayonne, 358, 366, 522
Bayreuth, 540
Beast epic, see Reynard the Fox
Beatification, 529
Beatrice, 411, 413-14, 588
Beaucaire, 510
Beaufort, House of, 628
Beaumont in the Argonne, 364
Beauvais, 372, 437
Bee, Abbey of, 376
Becket, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, 295-98 , 458, 475, 493
Bede, 159, 168, 171, 373, 399
Bedford, Duke of, 527, 529
Bedouins, 176
Beggars, 313, 5 16, 53°
Beghards, 561
Beguins, 561
Beirut, 322
Bejaunus , 392Bela IV, King of Hungary, 537
Belgium, 269, 365, 422, 491, 616
Belgrade, 557-58
Belisarius, 129, 133, 135-36, 138-39, 342
Benedict, St., of Nursia, 160-61 , 163, 377
Benedict XI, Pope, 505
Benedict XIII, 567-68
Benedictine Rule, 160-62 , 168, 175, 282
Beneficium , 240-41, 255Benevento (or Beneventum), Duchy of, 156, 169, 171, 196, 200, 226-27
Benevolences, 629
Beowulf , 42, 49, 399-400, 402, 415Berbers, 10, 135, 178-82, 187-89, 226-27; and see Libyans and Moors
Berengaria of Navarre, 321, 457
Bergamo, 352
Bergen, 543
Bernard, St., of Clairvaux, 299-300, 303, 320, 323, 381, 392
Berne, 542
Berri, 493-94, 626
Bessarabia, 140, 229
Bethlehem, 469
Béziers, 445
Bible, and history, 3; and art, 113, 432; quoted, 100, 103-04, 106-07, 313, 429; Gothic, 55, 398; Latin, 96, 113; Slavonic, 152, 224; Spanish, 410; English, 563; New Testament, 98, 173, 442; Greek, 113; commentaries on, 168, 381; monks memorize, no; Charlemagne and, 210; miscellaneous, 170, 268, 294, 382, 409, 442, 562, 570, 616; and the Italian Renaissance, 593, 602, 605
Bibliography, 8, 17, 594
Bills of attainder, 629
