• In Praise of Peace

it is with war Head (i.e., Christ); (see note) their righteousness Their own causes; themselves; (t-note) Peter's ship (i.e., the Church); its rudder fall to them; to steer duty advised divided intended to bow mother; (t-note) else he might disallow

• Ancrene Wisse, Introduction

1.31 respectively). The church window commanded a view of the high altar in the church and must have been on the ground floor if it was possible to talk through it (in the Chester-le-Street anchorhold, where the church window looked

• Early South English Legendary Life of Mary Magdalen

your mode of existence" 80 And he was very eager to know all about her way of life 81 In church, in hall, and in chamber, that they had never smelled anything like it anywhere 82 Lines 622-23: Mary turned,

• Excerpts from Munday's 'The Death of Robert, Earle of Huntington'

confesseth murders thus? He is a hallowed man and must be tried And punisht by the censure of the Church. The Church therin doth erre: God doth allowe No canon to preserve a murderers life. Richard, King Richard, in thy

• John Lydgate, The Lyfe of Seynt Margarete

Of Jul. Thirteen of the calends of July. This is July 20, Margaret's feast day in the western church. In the eastern church her feast is celebrated on July 17. 498-518 This passage is borrowed from the end of the

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 25, The Entry into Jerusalem

blindfolded, with crown falling off, and dropping the tables of the law, and the Church, which is represented as crowned and holding a model of a church, the place where the new law of mercy is proclaimed (YA, p. 182,

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 36, Mortificacio Christi

connects with the theme of Christ as a knight doing battle on the cross for his lady — i.e., the Church. See Woolf, “Theme of Christ the Lover-Knight.” 131–82 The laments of Mary. Mary presumably enters, having been brought onto

• Richard II's Reign and the Peasants' Revolt: Addresses of the Commons

note to lines 4-5. 20 For nowe is tyme to be ware. The sentiments in this line appear on fourteenth-century church bells. See Susan Crane, "The Writing Lesson of 1381," in Chaucer's England, ed. Barbara Hanawalt (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota

• Ancrene Wisse, Author's Preface

the church of St. James of Wigmore, which John Purcel gave to the same church at the request of brother Walter de Lodel, then senior precentor (i.e., director of singing). If anyone removes the said book from the aforementioned church,

• The Assembly of Gods

at the Sea of Galilee and the apostle whose name means "rock," upon whom Christ built his church. Founder of the Roman Church and its first pope, he holds two keys, for the gates of heaven and hell. 1563 Poule

• Robert of Cisyle: Introduction

personality for a popular audience, it also identifies him as an outsider who does not understand the language of the Church. When he hears the translation his reaction is not merely arrogant but blasphemous; he directly challenges the truth of

• Robin Hood and the Monk: Introduction

of isolation, a strongly developed representation of Robin's devotion to our lady, the hostility between the outlaws and the established church, a brief statement of the dangers of the town (reduced by the loss of material), a mission in disguise

• Robyn Hod and the Shryff off Notyngham: Introduction

Robyn Hod and the Shryff off Notyngham: Introduction Return to the Robin Hood Project Return to Menu of TEAMS Texts Copyright Information for this edition the other side of the page, in a hand thought to be from

• Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle

them [bore] a heraldic design sorrow; (see note) These slew; helpers customs more; slain Insofar everyone along souls; make promise church; have made [With] By; their; all prepared raised up Covered; (see note) [the Carle's daughter]; (see note) served; together

• John Mirk, Sermon on St. Anne

of the texts from the Septuagint that are accepted as a canonical part of the Old Testament by the Catholic Church but not by most Protestants. (For a somewhat fuller account of these texts, see explanatory note to line 238

• John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Volume 3: Introduction

concern, Gower begins his remarks with the second estate, the Church, commencing first with the Court of Rome: I believe firmly that the rights of the head of Holy Church under God, if that man conducts himself rightly, are placed

• The Book of Margery Kempe, Book II

2326 Seynt Jerom, The remains of Saint Jerome were held in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore. 2328 Seynt Lauerawnce, The remains of St. Lawrence lie in the church of San Lorenzo, some two miles from Santa Maria Maggiore. 2335

• Lydgate, Mesure Is Tresour

(Alexander, Cambises, Hercules) underscore the dangers of overreaching. The poem expresses a number of Lydgate’s typical concerns: defense of the Church against heretics, the dangers of division, and the virtues of hierarchy for common profit (see Schirmer’s discussion of Mesure

• John Lydgate, Payne and Sorowe of Evyll Maryage

mixed Sirens seen various; (see note) plain (open spaces) plays; raised seats show; faces unattractive delight themselves; (see note) faked; church service sanctuaries relics; saints' kiss fools; blind poison Nor none such; (see note) her forgo before (see note) John

• Plowman Writings: Introduction

of Piers the Plowman. But later editors of Chaucer saw fit to insert the pseudonymous Plowman's Tale; and MS Christ Church Oxford 152 includes a version of Thomas Hoccleve's Sleeves of the Virgin, with a Prologue meant to resemble the