• The Northern Homily Cycle: Homily 1, First Sunday in Advent

They both say the same thing with many [different] letters HOMILY 1, FIRST SUNDAY IN ADVENT: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: CT: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; MED: Middle English Dictionary; NHC: Northern Homily Cycle; NIMEV: The New Index of Middle English Verse, ed.

• The Northern Homily Cycle: Homily 11, Fourth Sunday after Epiphany

as an exchange mechanism creates an insatiable, and unnatural, desire to acquire more, just for the sake of having more” (Chaucer and the Late, p.174). 117 An hali man biyond se. Tubach 5038: Usurer eaten by adders. Out of the

• John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Volume 3: Introduction

which suggests a professional involvement in the law. (See Fisher, John Gower, p. 57.) That Chaucer gave Gower power of attorney in 1378, when Chaucer went to Italy, is further evidence that Gower was at least competent in legal matters.

• The Life of St. Julian the Hospitaller: Introduction

him in gladness without end. Surely they find St. Julian's inn, which wayfarers search for so eagerly.11 The Gawain-poet and Chaucer attest to the saint's continuing popularity in fourteenth-century England. Sir Gawain, wandering alone in a wild country, glimpses the

• The Bird with Four Feathers: Introduction

Medieval England. Ed. Michael G. Sargent. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1989. Pp. 145-59. Patterson, Lee. "The Subject of Confession." In Chaucer and the Subject of History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. Pp. 367-94. Peck, Russell A. "Number Structure in

• Charles d'Orleans, from Fortunes Stabilnes

others harking back to the role of Reason in RR. Machaut's work is pivotal, looking forward as well as back: Chaucer reworked some of its ideas in BD and TC. Wimsatt and Kibler detail those borrowings in their facing-page French/English

• The Quare of Jelusy

the earth. The story is recorded in Vat. Myth. I (7), Ovid, Fasti 4.417 ff., and Hyginus, Hyg. Fab. 146. Chaucer alludes to Pluto's rape of Proserpina in The Merchant's Tale (CT IV[E]2229 ff.). In Book 4 of TC, Troilus

• Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes

on the ascent of Arcite's soul to a (classical) heaven, a passage which Chaucer used at the end of his Troilus. In place of that account, Chaucer presents the Knight's somewhat blustering account (Canterbury Tales I[A]2809-14): His [Arcite's] spirit chaunged

• The Court of Love

de Franchise) known as the "marguerite" poems. See Wimsatt, Chaucer and the French Love Poets. 108 the ladyes gode nineteen. A reference to Chaucer's Legend of Good Women (F 283). Chaucer describes ten good women in nine tales, although manuscripts

• Lancelot of the Laik

to the Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Skeat himself observes that the author of this poem, "the true title" of which he gives as "The Book of Cupid, God of Love" is not Chaucer but probably Thomas Clanvowe, "a well

• Lancelot of the Laik

to the Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Skeat himself observes that the author of this poem, "the true title" of which he gives as "The Book of Cupid, God of Love" is not Chaucer but probably Thomas Clanvowe, "a well

• Poems in Celebration of Mary

Turtill trew. Patterson writes, "This epithet is not found in the English liturgy, nor in English religious lyric poetry before Chaucer. The expression was extremely popular, however, in French poetry" (p. 196). The figure may originate in Canticles (Song of

• Poems in Celebration of Mary

Turtill trew. Patterson writes, "This epithet is not found in the English liturgy, nor in English religious lyric poetry before Chaucer. The expression was extremely popular, however, in French poetry" (p. 196). The figure may originate in Canticles (Song of

• Poems in Celebration of Mary

Turtill trew. Patterson writes, "This epithet is not found in the English liturgy, nor in English religious lyric poetry before Chaucer. The expression was extremely popular, however, in French poetry" (p. 196). The figure may originate in Canticles (Song of

• Poems in Celebration of Mary

Turtill trew. Patterson writes, "This epithet is not found in the English liturgy, nor in English religious lyric poetry before Chaucer. The expression was extremely popular, however, in French poetry" (p. 196). The figure may originate in Canticles (Song of

• Poems in Celebration of Mary

Turtill trew. Patterson writes, "This epithet is not found in the English liturgy, nor in English religious lyric poetry before Chaucer. The expression was extremely popular, however, in French poetry" (p. 196). The figure may originate in Canticles (Song of

• Poems in Celebration of Mary

Turtill trew. Patterson writes, "This epithet is not found in the English liturgy, nor in English religious lyric poetry before Chaucer. The expression was extremely popular, however, in French poetry" (p. 196). The figure may originate in Canticles (Song of

• Poems in Celebration of Mary

Turtill trew. Patterson writes, "This epithet is not found in the English liturgy, nor in English religious lyric poetry before Chaucer. The expression was extremely popular, however, in French poetry" (p. 196). The figure may originate in Canticles (Song of

• Part Four

Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; MED: Middle English Dictionary; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; PL: Patrologia Latina, ed. Migne. 8 Venial sin - as opposed to deadly, or mortal, sin - while still serious, did not require the same degree of penance.

• Poems in Celebration of Mary

Turtill trew. Patterson writes, "This epithet is not found in the English liturgy, nor in English religious lyric poetry before Chaucer. The expression was extremely popular, however, in French poetry" (p. 196). The figure may originate in Canticles (Song of