barons, 472, 560, 566, 691, 774, 822
robber, 565, 614, 688
baroque, 894
Bar-sur-Aube, 615
Bartholomew of England, 1006, 1015
Bartholomew, St., 743
Basel, 619, 641, 642, 687
Cathedral, 848
Bashin, 200
Basil I the Macedonian, 428-429, 432, 435, 439, 529
Basil II, Bulgaroctonus, 430, 435, 444, 448
Basil, St., 9, 55, 62, 78, 792, 895, 896, 1002
Basilica (Leo VI), 434
basilicas, 127, 129, 132, 450, 479, 864-865, 876, 895
Basina, 91
Basques, 458, 462, 1030
Basra, 175, 191, 207, 208, 210, 232, 237, 252, 254, 259, 262, 273, 320
bathing, 271, 356-357, 379, 835
baths, 5, 67, 129, 130, 293, 302, 313, 456, 611, 718, 835
Battani Abu Abdallah, al- (Albategnus), 241, 242, 991
Batu, 655, 656, 658
Batuta, ibn, 339
Bavaria, 39, 92, 444, 462, 511, 556, 906
Bavarians, 510, 665, 905
Bayeux, 474
Cathedral, 851
Tapestry, 851
Bazh, 268
beards, priests’, 528, 529
Beatific Vision, 258, 807, 973, 1069, 1079
Beatitudes, 742, 1073
Beatrice, 729, 1037, 1058-1061, 1065, 1067-1069, 1075-1079
Beauvais, 474, 475, 481, 623, 639, 643, 648, 841
Cathedral, 865, 873, 881-882, 890
Bede, St., 80, 83, 483, 484, 488-489, 491, 522, 533, 534, 542, 872, 902, 1077
Bedouins, 22, 157-158, 216, 219-220, 263
Bee, 479, 482, 494
Becket, Thomas à, 486, 669-672, 684, 739, 743, 744, 753, 761, 768, 784, 871, 951, 987
Beghards, 769, 809
Béguines, 769, 809
Beirut (Berytus), 132, 239, 592, 600, 609
Bekr, Abu, caliph, 165, 166, 175, 187, 188, 189, 215, 227, 228, 258, 334-335, 336
Bela IV, 658
belfries, 342, 754, 865
Belgium, 622, 648, 685
Belgrade (Singidunum), 13, 39
Belisarius, 47, 102, 106, 107-111, 115, 116, 117, 125, 132, 146
Benedict I, 520
Benedict V, 539
Benedict VI, 539
Benedict VIII, 540
Benedict IX, 540
Benedict XI, Blessed, 815
Benedict XV, 978
Benedict of Aniane, St., 536
Benedict Biscop, 488, 491
Benedict of Nursia, St., 57, 517-519, 522, 524, 527, 536, 742, 805, 909, 1078
Benedictine order, 457, 545, 785, 958
Benedictine Rule, 517-519, 536
Benediktbeuren, 1024
Benevento, 440, 451, 452, 538, 706, 723
duchy of, 543
Duke of, 290
Benjamin of Tudela, 366, 375, 376, 404, 433
Benoît de Ste. Maure, 1044-1045
Benveniste, Sheshet, 404
Benvenutus Grassus, 403
Beowulf, 489-491, 504, 1030, 1044
bequest, rules of, 754, 766
Berbers, 22, 23, 117, 202, 283, 284, 285, 289, 290, 291, 295-296, 299, 371, 372, 408, 458
Berengar II, 511-512
Berengar of Tours, 476, 543, 741
Berengaria, wife of Alfonso IX, 762
Bérenger of Tours, 945, 1023
Bergamo, 662, 712, 722
Bergen, 618, 666
Bergson, Henri, 71, 969
Bergthora, 1033
Berlin, 274, 391, 618
Bernard de Caux, 783
Bernard of Chartres, 908, 914, 950
Bernard, of Clairvaux, St., 391, 593, 594, 595, 639, 707, 760, 768, 779, 785, 786, 787-792, 808, 827, 832, 842, 847, 868, 909, 917, 941, 945-946, 947, 950, 951, 959, 988, 1018, 1079
Bernard de Tirón, 846
Bernard de Ventadour, 1037
Bernardino of Feltre, Blessed, 632
Bernardino of Siena, St., 802
Bernewald of Hildesheim, 516
Bernoulli, John, 995
Bertha, wife of Ethelbert of Kent, 533
Bertha, wife of Robert the Pious, 480
Berthold of Regensburg, 571, 734, 735, 769, 829, 834, 986, 1018
Bertrade, Countess of Anjou, 688
Bertrand de Born, 1037
Bessarabia, 444
Bessarion, Johannes, 59
bestiality, 821-822
bestiaries, 853, 994
Beth Din, 347, 382
Bethlehem, 54, 607
betrothals, 380, 418, 823
Beverly Minster, 859
Bewcastle, 491
bezants, 120, 625
Béziers, 393, 775
Council of, 387, 404
Bianchi, 730, 731, 1061
Bible, 46-47, 49, 54, 66, 70, 83, 114, 175, 184, 185, 186, 205, 238, 336, 350, 352*, 353, 367, 396, 401, 406, 412, 414, 477, 479, 523, 532, 698, 724, 748, 770, 776, 777, 790, 853, 907, 915, 921, 939, 953, 967, 975, 978, 981, 987, 1009, 1014, 1067
commentaries, 368, 398, 497
also see New Testament, Old Testament
bibliomancy, 417
bills of exchange, 437, 629
biography, 305, 319, 329, 352
biology, 245, 437, 973, 994
Birger, Earl, 666
Biruni, Abu al-Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-, 203, 242, 243-244, 247, 249, 257, 991
bishop, boys’, 842
bishoprics, 300, 461, 468, 511, 513, 518, 541, 552, 767
German, 547
sold, 513, 548
“Bishop’s Roll,” 491
bishops, appointment of, 541, 546, 547
armed, 564
Eastern, 61-64
elections of, 760
of England, 493, 533, 668, 871
French, 548, 549, 689
German, 541, 546-547, 548, 549, 661, 784
Italian, 512, 548
Lombard, 547, 549
power of, 472
wealth of, 845
Bismarck-Schönhausen, Otto von, 510, 663, 665
Bitruji (Alpetragius), Abu Ishaq al-, 329, 911, 991
Bjerne Her juifsson, 504
Blachernae, Constantinople, 650
Black Death, 642, 894
Black Forest, 837
black markets, 119, 641
Black Mass, 986
Black Sea, 25, 27, 104, 119, 145, 146, 147, 191, 443, 444, 446, 447, 448, 454, 465, 506, 554, 612, 616, 619, 654, 664, 709
Black Stone, Mecca, 161, 170, 171, 193, 215, 216, 262
Blacks, see Neri
Blaise, St., 743
Blanche of Castile, 402, 690-691, 694, 775-776, 827, 880, 891
Blanche of Navarre, 827
Blanquerna (Lully), 979
blasphemy, 569, 720, 776
laws of, 755
Bleda, 38
Blesilla, 54
Blois, 393
blood, circulation of, 403
bloodhounds, 840
bloodletting, 999
boat building, 506, 710
Bobbio, 476, 533
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1045, 1054, 1058, 1059, 1063, 1065, 1066, 1081, 1082, 1086
Bodhisattvas, 217
Boethius, 99-102, 135, 450, 476, 484, 938, 965, 990, 1011, 1077
Bogomiles, 47, 767, 769
Bogolyubski, Andrey, 654
Bohemia, 391, 589, 622, 660, 663, 809, 832
dukes of, 511, 1075
sects in, 784
Bohemians, 657, 659, 661
Bohemund, 575, 589, 590, 591
Böhme, Jakob, 418
Boileau, Etienne, 635
Bokhara, 194, 206, 207, 231, 237, 247, 268, 278, 308, 339, 993
Boleslav I, King of Poland, 660
III, 660
V, 660
Boleslav I, Duke of Bohemia, 660
II, 660
Bologna, 42, 88, 114, 434, 616, 624, 630, 643, 662, 670, 708, 717, 722, 724, 754, 756, 777, 803, 811, 862, 888, 889, 903, 905, 911, 917-919, 922, 923, 979, 998, 1001, 1057, 1058, 1062, 1065, 1067, 1080
University of, 916-919, 926, 929, 988
Bolsena, 889
Bonanno of Pisa, 868
Bonaventura, St. (John of Fidanza), 406, 632, 802, 843, 923, 959-960, 978, 1077
bonds, government, 628, 629, 632
Bone, 284, 703
Boniface IV, St., 530
Boniface VII (Bonifazio Francone), 539
Boniface VIII, 404, 694*, 695, 696, 730, 783, 806, 811-816, 817, 919, 1000, 1062, 1072, 1077, 1085
Boniface, governor, 38, 74, 117
Boniface of Montferrat, 603
Boniface, St., 23*, 461, 487, 535, 542, 822
Book of Ceremonies (Constantine VII), 429
Book of Critique (Jonah ibn Janaeh), 396
Book of Crowns (Prudentius), 56
Book of the Countries (al-Yaqubi), 242
Book of the Gospels, 134
Book of the Hours of the Virgin, 853