• The Canterbury Interlude and Merchant's Tale of Beryn

Latin couplet at the end of The Tale of Beryn says the work was translated by a "son of the church of St. Thomas" (Filius ecclesie Thome), evidence that would seem to contradict Tamanini's claims for a lawyer. Judging from

• Item 27, Ypotis: Introduction

wished to learn more about the Bible than they might glean from regular readings of the Psalms and gospels in church services. The text probably served as a catechism for younger audiences, providing an education in some of the basic

• Robert of Cisyle

as other Byzantine customs, de­spite their devotion to the Latin church (p. 108). 75 sexteyn: A sexton is "a church official having the care of the fabric [building of a church] and its contents" (OED). 79 V: ffelenye. V also

• Codex Ashmole 61: Item 34, The Stations of Jerusalem

100 the temple. This refers to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, not the temple of Solomon. The Guide-Book to Palestine mentions this stone (see line 101) as located in front of the church gates (J. Bernard, p. 10). 104

• The Vision of Tundale

could mean, besides the church itself, "a churchyard; a burial ground, a cemetery" or "land owned by or under the jurisdiction of the church" (MED). In ecclesiastical usage it often designated the part of a church, set off from the

• Codex Ashmole 61: Item 25, The Feasts of All Saints and All Souls

Pope Gregory I (St. Gregory or Gregory the Great, one of the doctors of the Church). 74 In the worschyp of Seynt Mary. The church at the Pantheon was dedicated to the Virgin Mary and the martyr saints; it retains

• The Book of Margery Kempe: Introduction

more amatory than any available to them as actual wives. That this freedom was carefully circumscribed and superintended by the Church is integral to the story of women's religious movements in the Middle Ages, since it is more often through

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 43, Pentecost

advice bear living and dead prove explicitly those; believes great counsel; (t-note) since proclaim advise differently Surely known establish holy Church; (see note) messenger; oppressed be concerned with; obscure We remember went away from (see note); (t-note) (i.e., have known)

• How the Goode Wife Taught Hyr Doughter

us schall mysse!" Amen, quod Rate Listen; be attentive; (see note) pretty story amend if you work; your life support; church (see note) i.e., rain or shine see to it; tithes; (see note) do not miss disdainful give; food; clothing

• John Mirk, Sermon on St. Margaret

by the speaker]. 2 thagh . . . hur name, although it is just a minor holiday, except where the church is dedicated to her. 3-4 that he wyl fasten hur evon, that he wishes (or, they wish) to fast

• The N-Town Plays: Play 6, Moses

Play points to other elements of the cosmic plan of salvation — the Virgin birth and the birth of Holy Church, Ecclesia — embodied in the Virgin Mary. The Speculum humanae sal­va­tionis explains that Mary’s heart contained the two tablets

• Introduction

that while the Church may have appropriated the folk proverb in its development of sentential literature, it never truly succeeded in supplanting the proverb: "What we may see . . . is an attempt by the church to take possession

• The Dispute between Mary and the Cross: Introduction

. After a brave knight's death, his shield is hung high in church in his memory. So is this shield, that is, the crucifix, set high in church . . . to bring to mind Jesus Christ's chivalry, which he

• Introduction to the Munday Plays

as a Judas figure. For renaissance aristocrats like those who owned the play-companies, living on lands taken from the Catholic church and fearful of the unreliability of those he had to trust, Munday could hardly find a more gratifying pair

• Good Counsel, Wisdom, and Advice: Introduction

in the defense of the Church (lines 244-52): in the first case alluding obviously to Henry's usurpation of Richard II, and the second perhaps to his participation in the Lithuanian crusade. Given the lack of Church leadership and internecine warfare

• The Legend of Mary Magdalen, Penitent and Apostle: Introduction

this prose account of Mary Magdalen, is a collection of vernacular sermons for the major saints and festivals of the church year, for use by priests who were not learned or ambitious enough to find sermon materials for themselves. One

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 2, The Creation through the Fifth Day

depictions of the seasons of the year, as on the early sculpture reset over the south porch doorway of the church of St. Margaret in York (see Halfpenny, Fragmenta Vetusta, pl. 24). 129 fysch. A panel in the Great East

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 7, Sacrificium Cayme et Abell

Jesus, on the cross. The angel messenger who explains the obligation of tithing — an obligation about which the medieval Church was insistent — and demands the sacrifices is not in Genesis, but a portion of the biblical account forms

• Hereward the Wake

external lands of the church and the property of the monks should be divided among his more eminent followers, who only had to guard the island from outside. In consequence therefore, several people appropriated the church lands in the vicinity,

• The Life of Saint Francis in the South English Legendary

canonical horae at the appropriate times of day and night even when they were not in church, wherever they happened to be (whereas church service books were often very large, many itinerant clerics had portable, compact breviaries). Compare the monk,