• John Lydgate, The Lyfe of Seynt Margarete

note) dwelling place; (t-note) Stop; cruel conflict from it is impossible to flee their; misfortune; distress John Lydgate, The Lyfe of Seynt Margarete, Notes JOHN LYDGATE, THE LYFE OF SEYNT MARGARETE: EXPLANATORY NOTES 1-77 Lydgate's Prologue elaborately defines his account

• Lydgate, Appendix: Margaret of Anjou’s Entry into London, 1445

Triumphes of eternalle victorie, With fruicioun of the Trynite, By contemplacioun of Hys Glorie. [Deos Gracias Amen. Go To Bibliography JOHN LYDGATE, MARGARET OF ANJOU’S ENTRY INTO LONDON, 1445: FOOTNOTES: FOOTNOTES 1 Ingredimini et replete terram (Genesis 8:17) 2 Iam

• The Canterbury Interlude and Merchant's Tale of Beryn

against the Lollards. It is therefore tempting to believe that the 1420 jubilee provided this monastic author, as well as John Lydgate, with the religious occasion for reviving Chaucer's literary pilgrimage to Canterbury. The Text Though preserved only in Northumberland

• Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"

perhaps best remembered for the Massacre of the Innocents episode related in Matthew 2:16–18. His son, another Herod, reluctantly had John the Baptist beheaded to fulfill a promise made to his wife’s daughter, Salome (Matthew 14:1–11, Mark 6:17–28). The former

• Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"

perhaps best remembered for the Massacre of the Innocents episode related in Matthew 2:16–18. His son, another Herod, reluctantly had John the Baptist beheaded to fulfill a promise made to his wife’s daughter, Salome (Matthew 14:1–11, Mark 6:17–28). The former

• Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"

perhaps best remembered for the Massacre of the Innocents episode related in Matthew 2:16–18. His son, another Herod, reluctantly had John the Baptist beheaded to fulfill a promise made to his wife’s daughter, Salome (Matthew 14:1–11, Mark 6:17–28). The former

• Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"

perhaps best remembered for the Massacre of the Innocents episode related in Matthew 2:16–18. His son, another Herod, reluctantly had John the Baptist beheaded to fulfill a promise made to his wife’s daughter, Salome (Matthew 14:1–11, Mark 6:17–28). The former

• Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"

perhaps best remembered for the Massacre of the Innocents episode related in Matthew 2:16–18. His son, another Herod, reluctantly had John the Baptist beheaded to fulfill a promise made to his wife’s daughter, Salome (Matthew 14:1–11, Mark 6:17–28). The former

• Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"

perhaps best remembered for the Massacre of the Innocents episode related in Matthew 2:16–18. His son, another Herod, reluctantly had John the Baptist beheaded to fulfill a promise made to his wife’s daughter, Salome (Matthew 14:1–11, Mark 6:17–28). The former

• Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"

perhaps best remembered for the Massacre of the Innocents episode related in Matthew 2:16–18. His son, another Herod, reluctantly had John the Baptist beheaded to fulfill a promise made to his wife’s daughter, Salome (Matthew 14:1–11, Mark 6:17–28). The former

• Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"

perhaps best remembered for the Massacre of the Innocents episode related in Matthew 2:16–18. His son, another Herod, reluctantly had John the Baptist beheaded to fulfill a promise made to his wife’s daughter, Salome (Matthew 14:1–11, Mark 6:17–28). The former

• Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"

perhaps best remembered for the Massacre of the Innocents episode related in Matthew 2:16–18. His son, another Herod, reluctantly had John the Baptist beheaded to fulfill a promise made to his wife’s daughter, Salome (Matthew 14:1–11, Mark 6:17–28). The former

• Introduction

religious narratives. (p. 223) In fact, wisdom literature was popular enough to influence a host of later medieval works, including John Gower's masterpiece, Confessio Amantis,1 and Chaucer's Tale of Melibee. 2 While the impact of the wisdom tradition was not

• The Dispute between Mary and the Cross: Introduction

charm's potency. They might also include Cross-inspired asseverations by the four apostles, or by a house's four corners, as in John the carpenter's "white pater-noster" in Chaucer's Miller's Tale (I 3478-85). 4 Again, the Ancrene Wisse provides some of the

• Robert of Cisyle

and a campaigner against Saracens in Sicily. 29 Seynt Jones Niht: Saint John's Night (June 24, the feast of St. John the Baptist). 31 evensong: vespers, “usually celebrated shortly before sunset” (OED). The Magni­ficat (line 35) is a regular part

• The Tale of Gamelyn: Introduction

for which the spare suggestive encounters of the Robin Hood ballads were distinctly unaccommodating (Pierce Egan's Robin Hood and Little John, or The Merry Men of Sherwood Forest of 1840 is the classic example). And popular culture did not forget

• The N-Town Plays: Play 4, Noah

David, the fifth of David and the exile, the sixth of John the Baptist, the seventh of the Last Judgment. See Augustine, Tractate 9 on the Gospel of John. As namesake of the second age Noah is thus, after Adam,

• The N-Town Plays: Play 28, Betrayal; Procession of Saints

229 Johan Baptyst. Compare Play 22. 230 be naturall conseyvyng. Although Elizabeth conceived John through divine inter­vention (Luke 1:5-25), the playwright specifies the natural conception of John to differentiate his begetting from that of Jesus and the immaculate conception so

• The N-Town Plays: Play 35, Harrowing of Hell (2); Appearance to Mary; Pilate and Soldiers

now everyone light; deer have said the secret tales (t-note) Go To Play 36, Announcement to the Marys; Peter and John at the Sepulcher The N-Town Plays: Play 35, Harrowing of Hell (2); Appearance to Mary; Pilate and Soldiers Play

• A True Tale of Robin Hood

a crew went forth Of lusty cutters, stout and bold, And robbed in the North. Among the rest, one Little John, A yeoman bold and free, Who could, if it stood him upon, With ease encounter three. One hundred men