Boniface, St, archbishop of Mainz ( 680-754), 75, 91, 93, 96
Boniface VIII, pope (d. 1303), 228 -9, 285 -8, 325
books, production of, 313, 314, 315 -16
printing, 319 -20
Books of Hours, 316
Bordeaux university, 319
Bordelais, 302
Botticelli, Sandro ( 1445-1510), 329
Bougia ( N. Africa), 213
Bourbon, duchy of, 279, 289
Bourges, 157, 300, 316, 318
Brabant, duchy of, 293
art, 321, 329
Braudel, Fernand, historian ( 1902-85), 29, 230, 304
Braunch family of King's Lynn, 304
Bremen, see of, 145
Brescia, 186
San Salvatore, 54
Brethren/Sisters of the Common Life, 313 -14
Brétigny-Calais, treaty of ( 1360), 299
Bridei, king of the Picts (late 6th century), 71
Britain:
Christianity in, 68
Roman, 59, 61, 62 -4
Saxon attacks, 63 -4
see also England; Scotland; Wales
Brittany, 64, 91, 299, 301
Bretons, 94
dukes of, 277, 289
Bruges, 316, 317, 329
castellanship of, 114
Medici bank, 293
Notre-Dame, 321
Brunelleschi, Filippo ( 1377-1446), 274
Brunhild, Frankish queen (d. 613), 86
Bruni, Leonardo ( 1369-1444), v, 271
Bruno of Querfurt, St (d. 1009), 126
Brunswick, royal palace, 109
Brussels, 279
bubonic plague, 7, 22, 254, 255, 302 -4, 327
Black Death ( 1348-9), vii, 248 -51, 254, 255, 274, 302, 304
Bukhara, capture by Mongols, 244
Bulgaria, 17, 67, 167, 172, 239 Bogomils in, 187
Burgundy:
duchy of, 147, 157, 278, 279, 280, 290 -3, 301 ; artistic patronage, 316 -20, 321 -2
kingdom of, 3, 4, 7, 65, 90, 179 ; Dagobert in, 86, 87 ; monasticism in, 71
see also Valois
Burone family, Genoese merchants, 215
Bursa ( Asia Minor), 251
Byzantium, ix, 6 - 20 passim, 21 -4 passim, 28 - 33 passim, 34 -9 passim, 56, 167 -72, 239 -43
art and architecture, 52 -3, 54 ; see also Constantinople; iconography
in Asia Minor, 239, 251
culture, 51, 271
'Latin Empire', 239 -40
see also Christianity, Eastern church; Constantinople
Caen, university, 319
Caesarea, 245
Cahors, 294
Cairo, 24, 243
Calabria:
Byzantines in, 17, 21
stratēgos of, 167
Calais, 300, 304
English Wool Staplers, 304
Calatrava, Order of, 194
Caltabellotta, Peace of ( 1302), 242
Camaldoli, monastery at, 183
Campagna, 21, 25
Canary Islands, 266, 267
Candiani family, of Venice, 218
canon law, 42, 135 see also Gratian

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