• Athelston

is Hevene-kyng, Leve nevere traytour have betere endyng, But swych dome for to dye. Explicit powers greatest; (see note) grant Church (see note) gracious will bring about an end to; (see note) a man [who] leads himself; (see note) sworn;

• Sir Gowther

young have intercourse; sinful Each; grew more obviously pregnant one; could do harm; (see note) had him taken to the church; (see note) called soon grew fierce; violent; (see note) comforted; diligently wet nurses Who were; wives sucked them grew;

• William Dunbar: The Complete Works: Introduction

provide serious treatment of religious or moral topics. Poems 1-3 -- which have many of the characteristics we associate with church hymns -- celebrate biblical events of great importance to medieval Christians: the Nativity, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection. "A

• TEAMS Middle English Texts Series

other characters from the Old Testament (lines 1520-54). On the second wall appears material from the New Testament and the Church Fathers (lines 1562-87), ending, in another feminized and Christine-like touch, with the "nobyll prophetyssa" Sybyll (line 1589), who dominated

• St. George and the Dragon in the South English Legendary (East Midland Revision, c. 1400)

had been destroyed 16 And each was baptized and trusted wholly in God 17 The king ordered built a beautiful church and artfully decorated it ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON IN THE SOUTH ENGLISH LEGENDARY (EAST MIDLAND REVISION, c. 1400):

• Simon Winter, The Life of St. Jerome

And because, prior to that time, no regular form of divine worship had been drawn up for use in holy church. 151 yche body, everybody. 156 woke, week; Gloria Patri, Glory be to the Father. 158 longe, belong. 161 but

• John Mirk, Sermon on St. Katherine

That is, the burning bush encountered by Moses (Exodus 3:1-6). The Burning Bush Chapel behind the altar of the monastery's church was a holy site as early as the fourth century. The burning bush is commonly associated with the Virgin

• The Northern Homily Cycle: Homily 12, Fifth Sunday after Epiphany

the time of the harvest when the weeds can be more easily distinguished and discarded. The allegorical readings of the Church Fathers identify the weeds as heretics, but the NHC-poet opts for a much simpler reading, first emphasizing the importance

• The Northern Homily Cycle: Homily 33, Pentecost

said to derive from the white robes worn by the newly baptized on that day (Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church). In listing the gift of tongues which is bestowed on the apostles by the Holy Spirit, the poet places

• The N-Town Plays: Play 12, Joseph's Doubt

this. See note to 7.41–44 above. Mary not only embodies the Temple of the Old Testament and the New Testament Church, but her son will become the fulfillment of both. In this regard, as Owst notes, she is the perfect

• The N-Town Plays: Play 19, Purification

child’s son much While happy willing most certainly son’s fowls God’s service; get weary; (t-note) those same ones duties; Holy Church young by majesty (see note) By altar son’s; fitting; (see note); (t-note) Go To Play 20, Slaughter of the

• Anticlerical Poems: Preste, Ne Monke, Ne Yit Chanoun

influence in the promulgation of CAIM as an explanation of fraternal origins. See "'Caim's Castles': Poverty, Politics, and Disendowment," The Church, Politics and Patronage in the Fifteenth Century, ed. Barrie Dobson (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984), pp. 45-81. 120

• Prik of Conscience: Introduction

at large. These tools of pastoral care — pastoralia — were always filtered by the doctrine and dogma of the Church. The council came at the end of Innocent III’s papacy, and its injunctions were promulgated in England by Archbishop

• A Gest of Robyn Hode: Introduction

Hood plays. But it also expresses in some detail a sense of the wrongs imposed by the alienated authorities of church, town, and state, and in that sense it connects with fully developed strains of the period and the tensions

• John Gower, Traiti selonc les auctours pour essampler les amantz marietz: Introduction

in the sinless procreation of Adam and Eve.6 The problem facing postlapsarian humanity, in the orthodox view of the medieval Church, was adjudicating the legitimate requisites of soul and flesh: procreation was both necessary and good, as was physical desire,

• Poems Against Simony and the Abuse of Money: London Lickpenny

MS. 81 London Stone. The so-called "London Stone," or part of it, was built into the wall of St. Swithin's church. It originally might have been a Roman milliarium stone, or milestone, which measured distances. John V. Morris's map of

• Lydgate, Mumming for the Mercers of London

a hall, a chapel, and at least one other room (as well as a chest for keeping records) in the church of St. Thomas of Acre in Cheapside, near the birthplace of Thomas à Becket in an area once occupied

• Complaint of a Prisoner against Fortune

seems to tell an erotic love story, early medieval interpreters identified the "bride" (or spouse) of the text with the Church (i.e., the entire body of Christians) and the bridegroom or lover with Christ. 133 The Virgin Mary, who offers

• Wynnere and Wastoure

it pleases Him So that; once friars; when you die; (see note); (t-note) pillars; plaster Give a donation to the Church Feast; memorial drink bequest; death carried behind you as I could devise; (see note) wretch; Despair ember (i.e., fast);

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 15, The Offering of the Shepherds

which has altissimis instead of excelsis, and would presumably have been sung from musical notation so would require an experienced church musician. A Gloria, simply represented by an incipit, from Chester in London, British Library, MS. Harley 2124 is reproduced