• Audelay, The Counsel of Conscience

afraid; (t-note) spread out ashlar directly was less aggrieved; (see note) (t-note) remember vengeance speak [in church] be quiet When you are in church A priest, to astonish [Can mean that] an entire land [Rather than] be won out of

• Audelay, The Counsel of Conscience

afraid; (t-note) spread out ashlar directly was less aggrieved; (see note) (t-note) remember vengeance speak [in church] be quiet When you are in church A priest, to astonish [Can mean that] an entire land [Rather than] be won out of

• Audelay, The Counsel of Conscience

afraid; (t-note) spread out ashlar directly was less aggrieved; (see note) (t-note) remember vengeance speak [in church] be quiet When you are in church A priest, to astonish [Can mean that] an entire land [Rather than] be won out of

• Audelay, The Counsel of Conscience

afraid; (t-note) spread out ashlar directly was less aggrieved; (see note) (t-note) remember vengeance speak [in church] be quiet When you are in church A priest, to astonish [Can mean that] an entire land [Rather than] be won out of

• Audelay, The Counsel of Conscience

afraid; (t-note) spread out ashlar directly was less aggrieved; (see note) (t-note) remember vengeance speak [in church] be quiet When you are in church A priest, to astonish [Can mean that] an entire land [Rather than] be won out of

• Audelay, The Counsel of Conscience

afraid; (t-note) spread out ashlar directly was less aggrieved; (see note) (t-note) remember vengeance speak [in church] be quiet When you are in church A priest, to astonish [Can mean that] an entire land [Rather than] be won out of

• Audelay, The Counsel of Conscience

afraid; (t-note) spread out ashlar directly was less aggrieved; (see note) (t-note) remember vengeance speak [in church] be quiet When you are in church A priest, to astonish [Can mean that] an entire land [Rather than] be won out of

• St. Andrew and the Three Questions in the Scottish Legendary (c. 1400)

set "rule" such as those of the Benedictine monks or Austin canons. 888 Priests and bishops were empowered by the Church to confer absolution (God's forgiveness of a person's sins after confession) and to assign a suitable penance. 901-02 The

• Book of Numbers

and God’s punishment is a clear lesson to all those who would unrightfully question the directives (and directors) of the Church. It is worth noting that this reading of the text is by no means rare. Challoner’s note in his

• The Northern Homily Cycle: Homily 15, Sexagesima Sunday

neither shall a man use woman’s apparel: for he that doeth these things is abominable before God”) was repeated in church canons throughout the Middle Ages. Since, however, according to most medieval theologians, women were not created equal to men,

• The Northern Homily Cycle: Homily 49, Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity

that the priest imposed on them. If penitents fulfilled those conditions, the theologians taught that they were forgiven. (Lynch, Medieval Church, p. 287) 178 And how that he suld schrive him right. The qualities which make for a good confession

• Two Moral Interludes: The Pride of Life and Wisdom: Introduction

Courts building in Dublin, in which the manuscript had been placed along with others belonging to the canons of Christ Church, Dublin, was blown up. Fortunately, a transcription had been made of the play in 1891 by James Mills, deputy

• Lydgate, A Procession of Corpus Christi

suggesting that the verses describe or usher in a series of tableaux of mostly biblical figures and Fathers of the Church. The remaining stanzas take up one figure each, giving a brief description and exhorting listeners to reflect on the

• Dame Sirith

[If] I knew; utterly concealed would think; suited fulfill certain; an oath conceal; try tell her I would not chapter (church court) brought no such shame [on a] mule; (see note) By; by clerics Truly, old woman, I would not

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 1, The Creation of the Angels and the Fall of Lucifer

to the earth, that didst wound the nations”) and Luke 10:18 (“I saw Satan like lightning falling from heaven”). For Church Fathers such as Gregory of Nyssa, Lucifer’s fall and transformation occurred before the creation of the world or any

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 9, The Flood

of the creatures drowned in the Flood — and hence could not return to the ark, a symbol of the Church. In the Cornish Ordinalia, Noah predicts in advance that if the raven finds carrion it will not come back

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 10, Abraham and Isaac

of his ministry and Crucifixion (line 82: “Thyrty yere and more sumdele”). In a city with a high mortality rate (church records show that over the years the pageants were played, deaths exceeded births, with a precipitous decline in population

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 13, Joseph’s Troubles about Mary

The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 13, Joseph’s Troubles about Mary Return to Menu of TEAMS Texts Copyright Information for this edition JOSEPHOf grete mornyng may I me mene And walke full werily be this way, For nowe

• Pearl: Introduction

theology and allegory to represent the soul, heaven, and both ideal city and ideal church. Frequently painted or sculpted on the west wall of the church, either inside or out, images of the Lamb and the throne of God and

• Piers the Plowman's Crede

fourteenth century. See Piers Plowman B 11.140-66, 12.210-17, 18.261-423. 816 generall Holy Chirche. The Catholic, universal Church, as opposed to those aspects of the Church that require reform. 817-21 These lines are recorded only in the 1553 edition. Wright prints