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* Bills of exchange, 355
 * Biscay, Bay of, 226, 272, 304
 * Bishop, early Christian, 100, 102, 105-06, 114; in early Middle Ages, 120, 155, 157, 162, 169, 187, 193, 203; in feudal period, 219, 221, 264, 280-81, 288-93, 295; relations with towns, 327, 341, 346, 349-50, 357, 360-61, 363, 369-70; relations to culture, 388, 391, 418, 422; in later Middle Ages, 436-39, 442-43, 447, 452, 457-58, 463, 481, 484, 501, 534-35, 562, 574, 618
 * Bithynia, 35, 54, 68-69
 * Black Death, 514-16, 518, 523, 531
 * Black Forest, 88, 621
 * Black Prince, 517, 522-23, 525
 * Black Sea, 12, 17, 21, 34, 40, 53-55, 71, 84, 224, 345, 515, 550, 552-53, 583
 * Blanche of Castile, 495
 * Blasphemy, 294
 * Blind arcade, 421-22, 428, 431
 * Blois, 270-71, 274, 528
 * Blok, quoted, 371
 * Bobbio, 170
 * Boccaccio, 593, 598
 * Boëthius, 124-25, 222, 379
 * Bogomiles, 445
 * Bohemia, 11, 202, 216, 228, 263, 307, 389, 430, 435, 455, 532-33, 537-38, 546, 551-53, 558-59, 561, 568-72, 615-16
 * Bohemian Brotherhood, 571
 * Bohemond, 310, 314-16, 319
 * Boiardo, 593
 * Bokhara, 551
 * Bolingbroke, Lord, 18
 * Bologna, 295, 351-52, 377, 381, 389-90, 434, 470, 49i, 573, 586, 637-38
 * Boniface, Count of Africa, 83-84
 * Boniface, Marquis of Montferrat, 464, 466
 * Boniface, St., 168-69, 171, 194
 * Boniface VIII, Pope, 446, 483, 501, 503-05
 * Bonn, 88
 * Bookkeeping, 35
 * Booksellers, 185
 * Bordeaux 149, 179, 333, 358, 366, 522; Archbishop of, 437, 506
 * Borgia, House of, 635
 * Borgia, Caesar, 635
 * Borgia, Lucrezia, 635
 * Boris I, King of Bulgaria, 152, 228-29
 * Boroughs, English, 367-68, 484
 * Bosnia, 445, 549, 554, 556, 558
 * Bosworth Field, battle of, 628
 * Botticelli, 605
 * Bourbon, House of, 626
 * Bourgeoisie, 408-09, 414, 494, 587, 622; and see Middle class


 * Bourges, 267, 510, 529, 573, 622, 638; "King of," 527
 * Bouvines, battle of, 463
 * Bow, see Cross, and Long
 * Brabant, Duchy of, 356, 448, 524, 616
 * Bracton, 476
 * Bramante, 607
 * Brandenburg, Mark of, 228, 305, 307, 533, 540, 547, 616
 * Bremen, 369
 * Brescia, 352
 * Breslau, 549
 * Brethren of the Sword, 308, 544
 * Bretigny, Treaty of, 514, 517-18
 * Breton dialect, 398
 * Breton March, 203
 * Bretons, 260, 406, 434, 522; and see Brittany
 * Breviary of Alaric, 122
 * Brie, 625
 * Brindisi, 314
 * Bristol, 368, 609
 * Britain, 19, 24, 29, 34, 36-37, 40, 75, 78-79, 84-86, 1 18-19, 122, 164, 166, 209, 328, 406
 * British Christians, 167, 169
 * British Empire, 261
 * British Isles, 11, 164, 166, 169, 192, 219-20, 384, 401, 474, 487, 561; and see Great Britain, Ireland, Hebrides, Orkneys, Shetlands, England, Scotland
 * Brittany, 118, 166, 170, 203, 213, 246, 273-76, 333, 340, 379, 398, 406, 442, 488, 493-94, 508, 513-14, 522, 625-26; and see Breton
 * Bronze age, 4, 42
 * Bronze, sculpture in, 603-04
 * Brotherhood of man, 31, 62, 174
 * Brotherhoods, medieval, 335, 571, 598, 631
 * Bruce, Robert, 488
 * Bruges, 365-67, 498-99, 524, 543, 628
 * Brunelleschi, 598-99, 601-03, 613
 * Brunhilda, 127, 159, 166, 401
 * Bruno, 374
 * Brussels, 618
 * Brutus, 413
 * Brythonic dialects, 398
 * Bulgaria, 308, 453, 455, 549, 554, 556
 * Bulgarians, 11, 139, 151-52, 228-29, 308
 * Bulgars, 58, 87, 139-40, 150, 548
 * Bull, papal, 503-04, 568
 * Bullion, from Spanish colonies, 632
 * Bureaucracy, 73
 * Burgos, 366
 * Burgrave, 540
 * Burgundians, 79, 81; Kingdom of the, 82, 84, 88-90, chap. vii; party of