• The Annunciation

The angel to the vergyn said. By John Audelay. Index no. 3305. MS: Bodl. 21876 (Douce 302), fol. 24a-b (fifteenth century; West Midlands Shropshire dialect). Edition: Ella Keats Whiting, ed., The Poems of John Audelay, EETS o.s. 184 (1931; rpt.

• The Annunciation

The angel to the vergyn said. By John Audelay. Index no. 3305. MS: Bodl. 21876 (Douce 302), fol. 24a-b (fifteenth century; West Midlands Shropshire dialect). Edition: Ella Keats Whiting, ed., The Poems of John Audelay, EETS o.s. 184 (1931; rpt.

• The Annunciation

The angel to the vergyn said. By John Audelay. Index no. 3305. MS: Bodl. 21876 (Douce 302), fol. 24a-b (fifteenth century; West Midlands Shropshire dialect). Edition: Ella Keats Whiting, ed., The Poems of John Audelay, EETS o.s. 184 (1931; rpt.

• Sir Cleges: Introduction

conclude the plot. Variations of the motif are found in Gesta Romanorum (How the King's Son Won his Reward), in John Bromyard's Summa Praedicantium (a collection of exempla used in sermons), and in a French tale called Le Vilain au

• Sir Gowther: Introduction

people could belong to an alternate category which Doob calls "holy wild men." In this group reside such luminaries as John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene, and numerous other Christian saints and ascetics, those who voluntarily removed themselves from human society,

• Sir Orfeo

Le Freine and Sir Orfeo suggest that both lays were written by the same author. For a differing opinion, see John B. Beston, "The Case Against Common Authorship of Lay le Freine and Sir Orfeo," Medium Aevum 45 (1976), 153-63.

• The Annunciation

The angel to the vergyn said. By John Audelay. Index no. 3305. MS: Bodl. 21876 (Douce 302), fol. 24a-b (fifteenth century; West Midlands Shropshire dialect). Edition: Ella Keats Whiting, ed., The Poems of John Audelay, EETS o.s. 184 (1931; rpt.

• Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love, Appendix 1

the Beasts: de Animalibus (Books 22-26). Trans. James J. Scanlan, M.D. Binghamton: MRTS, 1987. Anglicus, Bartholomus. De Proprietatibus Rerum. Trans. John Trevisa. On the Properties of Things. Ed. M. C. Seymour. 3 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. Ebenbauer, Alfred et

• The Northern Homily Cycle: Homily 33, Pentecost

Homily Cycle: Homily 33, Pentecost HOMILY 33, PENTECOST: FOOTNOTES 1 The day of Pentecost according to John. In that time 2 Latin rubric (John 14:23–31): Jesus answered, and said to him: If any one love me, he will keep my

• The Annunciation

The angel to the vergyn said. By John Audelay. Index no. 3305. MS: Bodl. 21876 (Douce 302), fol. 24a-b (fifteenth century; West Midlands Shropshire dialect). Edition: Ella Keats Whiting, ed., The Poems of John Audelay, EETS o.s. 184 (1931; rpt.

• The Annunciation

The angel to the vergyn said. By John Audelay. Index no. 3305. MS: Bodl. 21876 (Douce 302), fol. 24a-b (fifteenth century; West Midlands Shropshire dialect). Edition: Ella Keats Whiting, ed., The Poems of John Audelay, EETS o.s. 184 (1931; rpt.

• The N-Town Plays: Play 6, Moses

(Minor Poems of John Lydgate, ed. Henry Noble MacCracken, EETS es 107 (1911), I: 286/33, 299/6), and the Life of Our Lady (ed. Joseph A. Lauritis, Pittsburgh, 1961, II: 799–802); and the Myroure of oure Ladye (ed. John Henry Blunt,

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

there is a kind of appropriateness at this point as the secular world breaks in upon Mary's revery. According to John 10, Christ is the door — the door of the sheepfold and the door to heaven. Mary, likewise, is

• The N-Town Plays: Play 41, Assumption of Mary

likely "seeing" rather than "saying." In other words, John was privileged to see heavenly sights (S 2:533). The apocry­phal Greek narrative of the Assumption of the Virgin (see headnote) was at­tributed to John the Apostle (to whom Revelation was attributed).

• The Annunciation

The angel to the vergyn said. By John Audelay. Index no. 3305. MS: Bodl. 21876 (Douce 302), fol. 24a-b (fifteenth century; West Midlands Shropshire dialect). Edition: Ella Keats Whiting, ed., The Poems of John Audelay, EETS o.s. 184 (1931; rpt.

• Emar: Introduction

texts: Nicholas Trivet's Anglo-Norman Chronicle (c. 1335), the Gesta Romanorum (c. 1350), Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale (c. 1385-92), and John Gower's Confessio Amantis (prior to 1390). [2] The tale enjoyed popularity well beyond England, occurring in French, Spanish, German,

• The Annunciation

The angel to the vergyn said. By John Audelay. Index no. 3305. MS: Bodl. 21876 (Douce 302), fol. 24a-b (fifteenth century; West Midlands Shropshire dialect). Edition: Ella Keats Whiting, ed., The Poems of John Audelay, EETS o.s. 184 (1931; rpt.

• The Annunciation

The angel to the vergyn said. By John Audelay. Index no. 3305. MS: Bodl. 21876 (Douce 302), fol. 24a-b (fifteenth century; West Midlands Shropshire dialect). Edition: Ella Keats Whiting, ed., The Poems of John Audelay, EETS o.s. 184 (1931; rpt.

• The Shewings of Julian of Norwich: Introduction

in disposal of prepositions (see lines 2181-84 and 3114-15), and by a vocabularly that recalls not only the Bible (especially John and Paul), but also learned discourse. Some examples to which she repeatedly has recourse include the can-may-will division of

• Mary Magdalen, from Speculum Sacerdotale

ensuing lines here retell just part of the story from Luke 7:36-50, omitting both the apostles' reaction (from Matthew and John) and the parable in Luke about the money-lender and his two debtors. 20 Joseph. The ascription to the Jewish