| 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 |
| 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 |
| Braudel, Fernand, historian ( 1902-85), 29, 230, 304 |
| Braunch family of King's Lynn, 304 |
| Bremen, see of, 145 |
| Brescia, 186 |
| 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 |
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| Brittany, 64, 91, 299, 301 |
| Bruges, 316, 317, 329 | castellanship of, 114 | | Medici bank, 293 | | Notre-Dame, 321 |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Caen, university, 319 |
| Caesarea, 245 |
| Cahors, 294 |
| Cairo, 24, 243 |
| Calabria: | Byzantines in, 17, 21 | | stratēgos of, 167 |
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| 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 |