- 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
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- 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, 392
- Bela 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, 255
- Benevento (or Beneventum), Duchy of, 156, 169, 171, 196, 200, 226-27
- Benevolences, 629
- Beowulf, 42, 49, 399-400, 402, 415
- Berbers, 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
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