Baillis, seigneurial officers, 10 nt. _Banalités_, 258. Banner, of baronial castle, 33. Baptism, customs at, 81. Barbican, 21. Baronial family, of superior type, 14. Baron, usual rights of, 7. cruel and outrageous, 8, 9, 152. typical feuds and neighbors, 13. superior type of, 153. Baronial feuds, 224 ff. Barony, composition and government of, 10, 11. Bath, before adubbement, 202. Battle cries, 248. Battle, Bouvines, typical of Feudal warfare, 241 ff. mobilization for, 243. preliminaries of, 244. array of the armies, 245. engagement of the infantry, 247, 248. the battle cries, 248 nt. charge of French cavalry, 248, 249. flight of Otto IV, 250. rout of Germans and Flemings, 251. tactics and strategy employed, 251, 252. Beards, shaved by noblemen, 95. Beds, great feather, 39. Bedrooms, furniture of, 38 ff. Beer, 121. Beffroi, in sieges, 237. Bells, of communal donjon, 351. Bertran de Born, war songs by, 176. Betrothals, 105. Beverages, 120, 121. Bill of fare, at feasts, 128. on fast days, 129. Billiards, game of, 57. Birth, customs at, 81. Bishop, 373 ff. honors of, 373. wealth and power of, 374. desirability of office, 376. how elected, 377. vast secular duties, 378. employed by king or pope, 379. wrote ecclesiastical duties, 380. worldly types of, 380, 381. forbidden secular luxuries, 381. participates in warfare, 382. friction with abbots and barons, 383. abuse right to excommunicate, 383, 384. interdict by, 384. relations with canons, 385 ff. relations with parish priests, 388 ff. Bishops, visit disorderly monasteries, 326. Books, elegant copies of, 341. Brandy, 121. Bread, varieties of, 118. Bride, costume of, 107. Bridegroom, costume of, 108. Bridges, state of, 344. Bridge tolls, baronial, 12. Buffet of knighthood, 204, 205. C Camps, in feudal warfare, 243. Canons, elect bishops, 377, 380. nature of office, 385. duties of, 386. worldly and gross, 387. Carpets of rushes, and "Saracen," 37. Cartel of defiance, 229. Carver, at feast, 127. Castle, position of between rivers, 4. built to resist Vikings, 5. famous specimens of, 18. siege of, 234 ff.