INDEX

645 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, 653-56, 558 Balkan peoples and states, 151,228; and see Bulgaria, Roumania, Ser- bia, 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, no-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 Can- terbury, 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 Beziers, 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; commen- taries on, 168, 381; monks memo- rize, 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