n hundred years before Bacon was born, ii. 175.

Bactrian empire, European ideas transmitted through, i. 45.

Badbee, John, the second English martyr, denies
transubstantiation, ii. 99.

Bagdad, Khalifs of, patronize learning, i. 335.
Its university founded by the Khalif al Raschid, i. 402.

Baghavat Gita, i. 65.

Baines on the extent of the cotton manufacture, ii. 386.

Bajazet, defeats Sigismund, King of Hungary, at the battle of
Nicopolis, ii. 106.

"Balance of Wisdom," probably written by Alhazen, ii. 47.

Balboa discovers the Great South Sea, ii. 174.

Ball, John, his preaching an index of the state of the times, ii. 148.

Balthazar Cossa, Pope John XXIII., ii. 98.

Barbarians, Northern, their influence on civilization in Italy, i. 416.

Barbarossa, Frederick, surrenders Arnold of Brescia to the
Church, ii. 25.

Barsumas assists in the murder of the Bishop of Constantinople, i. 297.

Basil Valentine introduces antimony, ii. 156.

Basil, St., Bishop of Caesarea, founder of the Basilean order of
monks, i. 436.

Basle, Council of, ii. 102.

Bavarians, Christianized, i. 365.

"Beatific Vision," questioned by John XXII., ii. 94.

Beccher introduced the phlogistic theory, ii. 286.

Bechil, the discoverer of phosphorus, i. 410.

Belgrade, taken by Soliman the Magnificent, ii. 109.

Belisarius reconquers Africa, i. 327. Captures Rome, i. 350.

Benedetto Gaetani, Cardinal, his participation in causing the
abdication of Peter Morrone, Celestine V., ii. 80.

Benedict, St., miracles related of, i. 435.

Benedictines, their numbers, i. 436.

Ben Ezra, his numerous acquirements, ii. 123.

Berengar of Tours, opinions of, ii. 10.
Many of his doctrines embraced by Wickliffe, ii. 98.

Berkeley, his doctrine on the existence of matter, i. 231.

Bernard of Clairvaux stimulates the second Crusade, ii. 24.

Bernard, St., attacks Abelard, ii. 11.

Bernardini, Peter, the father of St. Francis, ii. 64.

Bertha, Queen of Kent, assists in the conversion of England to
Christianity, i. 366.

Beziers, the capture of, by Abbot Arnold, ii. 62.
Council of, opposes the Jewish physicians, ii. 125.

Bible, translated into Latin by Jerome, i. 306.
Its superiority to the Koran, i. 343.
Translated into English by Wickliffe, ii. 99.
Its character and general circulation, ii. 224.

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