• Audelay, Salutations

a late fourteenth-century practice of composing saints’ hymns in 14-line alliterative stanzas (compare the hymns to Saints Katherine, John the Evangelist, and John the Baptist [Ruth Kennedy, ed., Three Alliterative Saints’ Hymns]; two of these hymns employ anaphora). [Fol. 26vb–27rb.

• Havelok the Dane: Introduction

[Argues that Grim is not as good as he seems.] Pearsall, Derek. "John Capgrave's Life of St. Katharine and Popular Romance Style." Medievalia et Humanistica 6 (1975), 121-37. [John Capgrave, a fifteenth-century Augustinian friar, knew and mimicked romance formulae found

• Lancelot of the Laik

Lancelot), Sara Teasdale (in "Guenevere") and John Ciardi (in "Launcelot in Hell"). Playwrights, novelists, and filmmakers follow in this tradition. J. Comyns Carr's King Arthur, T. H. White's The Once and Future King and John Boorman's Excalibur all link the

• The Bird with Four Feathers: Introduction

354. EETS e.s. 101. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1907. Pp. 84-85. Lydgate, John. To Find a Frend at Nede. Ed. H. N. MacCracken. In The Minor Poems of John Lydgate. Part 2. EETS o.s. 192. 1934; rpt. London: Oxford University

• William Caxton, The Game and Playe of the Chesse: Introduction

collector. This image of the state as a naturally occurring and physiologically functioning unit owed much of its popularity to John of Salisbury, whose twelfth-century Policraticus describes the state as “a sort of body which is animated by the grant

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 12, The Annunciation to Mary and the Visitation

aungell to rede thee thy way: Ecce mitto angelum meum ante faciem tuam qui preparabit viam tuam ante te.7 Of John Baptist he menyd thore, For in erthe he was ordand ay To warne the folke that wilsom wore Of

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 34, The Road to Calvary

is no indication in the stanza structure of something missing, however. That the holy women and John depart for Calvary is revealed by John in lines 203–04. 217 oure tooles are before. They do not have their tools in hand,

• Lydgate, The Siege of Thebes: Prima Pars

frame of The Canterbury Tales (I[A]769-818). 143-44 Marginalia: ¶ How oure Host spak to Daun John. 164-66 Marginalia: ¶ How oure Host bad Daun John telle a tale. 165 jape. The term means both a trick and a joke. In

• Sir Degrevant: Introduction

"life and career of John Fynderne may reflect . . . the tail-rhyming romance of Sir Degrevant."19 She goes on to argue that the family possibly obtained possession of the romance around the time that said John had bought the

• In Praise of Peace

same John pleads through the highest devotion for the state and the health of his aforesaid lord.] [The "epistle" that follows is the Latin poem Rex celi deus; see John Gower: The Minor Latin Works, ed. R.F. Yeager.] John Gower,

• The Life of St. Thaïs: Introduction

contemporary, the South English Legendary.14 The Gospel passage for which the NHC Life of St. Thaïs serves as illustration is John 3:16-21, a text which was assigned to the Monday following Pentecost and part of which I quote below: Because

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 27, The Last Supper

will also bring a towel for the foot-washing. 47–50 Peter objects to having his feet washed by Jesus, as in John 13:6–9. 60 s.d. Tunc lavat manus. The foot washing is completed, and it seems that among the disciples only

• The Gast of Gy

enemies, referred to by this name in 1 John 2:18, 22; 4:3; 2 John 7. He has also been taken to be the inherent sin in the beasts of the Apocalypse. 2 John 7 specifically identifies the Antichrist with those

• Quicquid homo scribat (In fine)

grant that I receive your holy light. (see note) (see note) Go To Presul ouile regis John Gower: The Minor Latin Works, Notes JOHN GOWER, THE MINOR LATIN WORKS: NOTES ABBREVIATIONS: CA: Gower, Confessio Amantis; CB: Gower, Cinkante Ballades; Cronica:

• The Assumption and Mary as Queen of Heaven

my flour. Not in Index. MS: Bodl. 17680 (Gough Eccl. Top. 4), fol. 128b (c. 1425). The verses occur in John Mirk's sermon De Assumpcione Beate Marie as dialogue in his narrative of the Assumption. Editions: T. Erbe, Mirk's Festial,

• The Assumption and Mary as Queen of Heaven

my flour. Not in Index. MS: Bodl. 17680 (Gough Eccl. Top. 4), fol. 128b (c. 1425). The verses occur in John Mirk's sermon De Assumpcione Beate Marie as dialogue in his narrative of the Assumption. Editions: T. Erbe, Mirk's Festial,

• The Assumption and Mary as Queen of Heaven

my flour. Not in Index. MS: Bodl. 17680 (Gough Eccl. Top. 4), fol. 128b (c. 1425). The verses occur in John Mirk's sermon De Assumpcione Beate Marie as dialogue in his narrative of the Assumption. Editions: T. Erbe, Mirk's Festial,

• Item 39, Sir Orfeo: Introduction

1975. Pp. 13B31. Speed, Diane, ed. Medieval English Romances. 2 vols. 3rd ed. Durham: Durham Medieval Texts, 1993. 1:122B48. Stevenson, John Horne. "Syr Orfeo." Scottish Antiquary 16 (1902), 30B38. [Prints Ashmole 61.] Tolkien, J. R. R. "Sir Orfeo: A Middle

• The Assumption and Mary as Queen of Heaven

my flour. Not in Index. MS: Bodl. 17680 (Gough Eccl. Top. 4), fol. 128b (c. 1425). The verses occur in John Mirk's sermon De Assumpcione Beate Marie as dialogue in his narrative of the Assumption. Editions: T. Erbe, Mirk's Festial,

• Item 32, Maidstone’s Seven Penitential Psalms: Introduction

about apostolic poverty, attacking the views of Oxford Wycliffites and one John Ashwardby in particular.8 He seems to have spent some time as a confessor in the service of John of Gaunt, the uncle of Richard II and the most