506 index
Basil I of Muscovy 46
Basilian Order 165
Basilicata 350 n. 66
Baudoin d’Avesnes 178–79
Bayezid I, sultan 45, 47, 430
Beatrice of Sicily 425
beccaria 344
Beirut 213
Béla IV, king of Hungary 31–32
Belgrade 68
Belisirama 414 n. 120
Bellapais, monastery in Cyprus 166, 169,
179–80, 336
Bellevaux, abbey 167, 372
Belvedere, castle 268
Belvoir, castle 173, 351
Benedetto Zaccaria 3, 426; see also Zaccaria
Benedict XI, see pope
Benedict XII, see pope
Benedict of Santa Susanna, cardinal and
papal legate 152, 169 176, 419
Benedictines 164–66, 168–69, 371 and n. 8
Benevento, battle of 4, 425
Benjamin of Tudela 258 and n. 8, 260, 268,
272, 275, 279
Benoit de Sainte-Maure 317, 321–22
Bérard, Latin archbishop of Athens 154–55,
160, 402
Berat 34, 219, 227
Berbati 229
Bernard de Jacqua 304
Berthold de Katzenelnbogen 175
Bessarion, cardinal 55, 179
beylik 29, 37, 41–42, 68, 219
Bibliothèque National de Paris 292
billon coinage 221–23, 228, 231, 233–39, 251
bishop 74, 105, 146–60, 162–65, 169, 171–72,
175–76, 178, 183, 353, 383 and n. 37, 412, 419,
421–22
Bithynia 426
Black Death 41, 102, 112, 192–93, 428
Black Sea 46, 49, 67, 190, 210, 213–14, 238,
252, 268
Boeotia 10, 120, 180, 204, 224 n. 25, 227, 235,
243, 245, 359, 369, 370 n. 2, 374, 377, 380–81,
386–87, 392, 394 n. 61, 402, 404 n. 79, 405,
410, 412–14, 419, 427
Bohemia 62, 67
Bohemond of Taranto 30
Boniface IX, see pope
Boniface of Montferrat, lord of
Thessalonica 2–3, 120, 126, 154, 167–68,
175, 265 and n. 61, 269, 419–20
Bonifacio da Verona 270, 426
Bonifacio (Crete) 267 and n. 71
Bonsinior 276
Book of Law 299
Book of the Conquest 305–06; see also
Chronicle of the Morea
Bosporus 24, 46, 48
Boudonitsa, county of 2, 428, 430
Bourkos, Redoubt and Bay of 269, 271
Brienne 57, 63, 170, 176, 215, 243, 369, 376,
378, 423, 426–29; see also Gauthier I (V) of;
Gauthier II of; Hugh of; John of
Brindisi 198, 234, 422–23
Britain 322
British Museum 248
Brittany 31
Brutus 322
Buckinghamshire 178
Buda 45
Bulgarian(s) 3, 31, 38, 222, 236, 252, 419–20,
423
state 31, 45, 219, 221–222, 245, 252
Bulla Cypria 148
burgensis 280
burgesses 141, 146
burgesie 83, 100 n. 35
Burgundian(s) 5, 28, 45, 48, 50, 62, 66–67
and n. 147, 120, 228, 405, 430
Burgundy 28, 35, 42, 45–46, 49, 56, 60,
66–67, 69, 244, 295, 299, 305, 314, 423,
425, 427–28; see also Hugh IV of; John the
Fearless of; Philip the Bold of; Philip the
Good of
buticularius, see butler
butler 117
Butrint 227; see also Vouthrotos
Byzantine and Christian Museum in
Athens 380, 383, 387, 407
Byzantine Empire 1, 3–4, 13, 25, 52, 56,
73–75, 95 n. 28, 99, 113, 117, 141–42, 156, 185,
235, 258, 274, 314, 322, 324, 326, 328, 338,
347, 357 and n. 87, 419
Byzantine Iliad 317 n. 84 and 86, 318
Byzantine Museum of the Archbishop
Makarios III Foundation 375 n. 18