• Jack Upland

18.17: "And if he [= brother] will not hear them [witnesses to God's word]: tell the church. And if he will not hear the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and publican." 175 us. Unique to H.

• The Northern Homily Cycle: Homily 6, First Sunday after the Nativity

Canticles as allegorical accounts of the love between Christ and the Church. Origen and Gregory of Nyssa further developed the idea of Christ as bridegroom not only of the Church but of its individual mem­bers, an image which, while it

• THE BOKE OF CUPIDE,GOD OF LOVE: Introduction

sympathized, suggesting that the God of Love is aligned with the Church, while the cuckoo "is associated with Christ . . . creating an opposition between Christ and Church which is counterintuitive but which is at the heart of Lollard

• Codex Ashmole 61: Item 4, How the Good Wife Taught Her Daughter

Furnivall, on the basis of line 3. 22 With sybbe ne fremde make no jangelyng. Complaints about layfolk talking in church were common in clerical writings. John Mirk instructs priests to command their parishioners to be quiet once the service

• Audelay, Poems and Carols: Introduction

cross-staff, also stands there. Following the orthodoxy of the English Church, Audelay cites Thomas’s martyrdom in Marcolf and Solomon (line 342), reminding readers how the archbishop courageously defended the Church against pressure from secular powers. The sequential logic of the

• St. Jerome and the Lion

in LA (trans. Ryan, 2.215). 75 his enemyes. In LA (trans. Ryan, 2.215) this passage, on Jerome's defense of the Church against heretics and the attacks he suffered in return, is carefully adapted from Sulpicius Severus, Dialogues 1.8, in which

• Shorter South English Legendary Life of St. Frideswide

by all classes in society (see note) (see note) a nun begun [to build] earlier; (see note) who had the church built name; enshrined (see note) seemed to him no disgrace; (see note) command; thither cut her [hair]; companions; (see

• Mum and the Sothsegger: Introduction

a parish priest's sermon, which concerns tithing and offering gifts to the priest. Instead of finding solace in his local church, he is asked to offer gifts of all kinds, including, in a bizarre passage, a cornucopia of vegetables and

• The Northern Homily Cycle: Homily 25, Easter Monday

Tubach. For manuscript abbreviations (ED, A, D, G, L, V), see the Introduction. Easter, the central liturgical season of the church year, includes not just Easter Sunday, the celebration of Christ’s Resurrection, but also the fifty days between Easter Sunday

• The Tournament of Tottenham and The Feast of Tottenham: Introduction

a marriage consummated in bed but not solemnized in church was valid but not licit. In C it is stated explicitly that the couple, after their night together, go to church to get properly married; in H this is merely

• The Life of St. Scholastica in the South English Legendary: Introduction

Women, while painting a rather darker picture overall, acknowledges the significant role played by monastic women in the early Anglo-Saxon church; see especially her introduction, pp. 1-14. 11 McNamara, Sisters in Arms, p. 317. 12 Bennett and Smithers, eds., Early

• Mary Magdalen, from Speculum Sacerdotale

discovers her secret abode and presides over the final events that welcome her back into the human community of the church: giving her the last sacraments, taking charge of her burial, and arranging for his own eventual burial next to

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 8, The Building of Noah’s Ark

often had three levels, which were determined by the symbolism of the vessel as a representation of the Church. Like the Church at the Day of Judgment, the ark was a providentially chosen means to safety when all the world

• Anticlerical Poems and Documents: Introduction

controversial ideas into a political agenda which denounced the established church as hopelessly flawed and prelates (including the pope) as agents of Satan and Antichrist. Some of Wyclif's ideas about church temporalities found expression in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381;

• Codex Ashmole 61: Item 37, Saint Margaret

Valerian in 258 by being roasted on a gridiron. Saint Stephen is usually considered the first martyr of the Christian Church; his death by stoning is recounted in Acts 6–8. Margaret’s eager appreciation of these saints’ lives is here presented

• Item 24, Sir Cleges: Introduction

for Sir Cleges’s Christmas cherries is the apo­cryphal Pseudo-Matthew, one of several gospels that circulated from the times of early Church. In the Pseudo-Matthew, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus stop by a date palm during their flight to Egypt after the

• Second Book of Maccabees 7

here, and that of the priest Eleazar, told subsequently — are “so powerful . . . that they served the church fathers as a paradigm for Christian martyrdom” (Patter­son, “‘Liv­ing Witnesses,’” p. 522, who cites Frend, Martyrdom, pp. 22–57); they

• Katherine of Alexandria: Introduction

inscriptions in her honor have survived until recent times. She was also one of the saints most frequently portrayed on church screens, in stained glass windows, and in small works of art for private use. Katherine's appeal was even broader

• The Northern Homily Cycle: Homily #, Title

thare scho es Qwene Thidir scho bringe us all bedene. Amen.] purification second; the meeting with Christ; (t-note) third lay church signifies every burning wick symbolized clearly wherein (t-note) (t-note) signifies; (t-note) brittle; soft (see note) other although; need such

• Everyman and Its Dutch Original, Elckerlijc: Introduction

Encyclopedia of Medieval Church Art, p. 184, fig. 6.22). See also Clark, Dance of Death, pp. 9–10. 31 Dugdale, History of St. Pauls Cathedral in London, pp. 131–32. 32 See King, “Pre-Reformation Painted Glass in St. Andrew’s Church, Norwich.” 33