• Stanzaic Morte Arthure

"The Alliterative Morte Arthure, the Concept of Medieval Tragedy, and the Cardinal Virtue Fortitude." In Medieval and Renaissance Studies, ed. John M. Headley (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968), pp. 95-118. [Diverges from Matthews and Benson to see

• Amis and Amiloun Introduction

English Romance: Guy of Warwick, Amis and Amiloun, and the Squyr of Lowe Degre. Liverpool: University of Liverpool, 1984. Ford, John C. “Merry Married Brothers: Wedded Friendship, Lovers’ Language and Male Matrimonials in Two Middle English Romances.” Medieval Forum 3

• Siege of Jerusalem

a wedding in Cana, Christ turned six jars of water into wine, an act that John names as the first sign of Christ's power. See John 2:1-11. No doubt the linking of this story - along with the feeding of

• Sir Launfal: Introduction

Andreas Capellanus on Love, trans. P. G. Walsh (London: Duckworth, 1982), pp. 271-85, or The Art of Courtly Love, trans. John Jay Parry (New York: Norton, 1969), pp. 177-86. Another analogue, identified by Roger Sherman Loomis in his Arthurian Tradition

• The N-Town Plays: Play 1, Creation of Heaven; Fall of Lucifer

But it is also likely that the scribe meant “bilden," “to create." 39, s.d. Hic cantent angeli in celo. As John Stevens points out, “The most frequent use of music in the plays is to symbolize heaven. . . .

• The N-Town Plays: Play 30, Death of Judas; Trials before Pilate and Herod

treason (dragging by wild horses, drawing, and burning; or hanging in the gibbet) is described in 27.110–12, 129–32. 237 Compare John 19:36 which refers to the Passover lamb (Exodus 12:46 and Numbers 9:12) and the afflictions of the righteous (Vulgate

• The N-Town Plays: Play 31, Satan and Pilate’s Wife; Second Trial before Pilate

are so named in the Gospel of Nicodemus (S 2:513). 200 thre naylys. Not scriptural, but could be inferred from John 20:25–27 when Thomas asks to see the resurrected Jesus' hands and side. It is very likely that the tradition

• John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Book 7

ear; (see note); (t-note) am not unless; (t-note) feeling Leave skipped over yes ill-considered [say] "stop" John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Book 7: Notes JOHN GOWER, CONFESSIO AMANTIS, BOOK 7: FOOTNOTES 1 In every matter, wise doctrine gains well-being, nor does

• Codex Ashmole 61: Item 22, The Jealous Wife

pregnancy of several biblical couples, including Abraham and Sarah in the Old Testament and Zacharias and Elizabeth, the parents of John the Baptist, in the New. For the medieval aristocracy, the failure to produce an heir had serious consequences, and

• Poems Against Simony and the Abuse of Money: London Lickpenny

the wall of St. Swithin's church. It originally might have been a Roman milliarium stone, or milestone, which measured distances. John V. Morris's map of fourteenth-century London on p. 14 of Chaucer's London designates the "London Stone" as landmark no.

• The Lovers' Mass

priest (and bishop) in The Roman de la Rose (lines 16272-20704), and as Venus' priest and the Lover's confessor in John Gower's Confessio Amantis. 57-73 Officium. The Officium (the Introit or entrance hymn) is a roundel, a short poem based

• Complaint of a Prisoner against Fortune

alone so that only Echo hears (and responds). 92-98 The story of the woman taken in adultery is told in John 8:3-11. In an unusual rhetorical move, the prisoner claims to be as innocent as she, for the purpose of

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 5, The Fall

numbering adjusted accordingly to account for half lines. Scribes are identified as follows: Scribe A; Scribe B: main scribe; JC: John Clerke; LH: later scribal hand (unidentified). This and subsequent pageants copied by Scribe B unless otherwise noted. 1 DIABOLUS.

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 40, The Travelers to Emmaus

numbering adjusted accordingly to account for half lines. Scribes are identified as follows: Scribe A; Scribe B: main scribe; JC: John Clerke; LH: later scribal hand (unidentified). 1 PERIGRINUS. So throughout in Reg. That. In Reg, letter T is sketched

• Everyman and Its Dutch Original, Elckerlijc

Dance of Death tradition, which is invoked in the title-page wood­cut used for the editions of the play printed by John Skot. See Intro­duction, pp. 6–7. 8 more gracyous. More filled with grace (i.e., God’s saving grace). 10-11 in the

• John Gower, Cinkante Balades

note) (see note) (see note) (t-note) (see note) Go To Appendix 1: A Translation of the Traiti (Quixley) John Gower, Cinkante Balades JOHN GOWER, CINKANTE BALADES: EXPLANATORY NOTES Abbreviations: Boethius: Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy; BD: Chaucer, Book of the Duchess;

• In a Valley of This Restless Mind

interpreted as the Bride-Soul making her nest in Christ's wounded side; see Eric Colledge, The Mediaeval Mystics of England (London: John Murray, [1962]), pp. 11-13; Gray (1963), pp. 85, 129; Wimsatt (1978), pp. 338-40. Citing the mystical meanings attached to

• Codex Ashmole 61: Item 37, Saint Margaret

The Chester Mystery Cycle: A New Edition with Modernised Spelling (Mills, p. 75, lines 298–300) and in Audelay’s Poems of John Audelay. Br calls them “Belgys” and “Re­fun”; the name Geffron may have mistakenly occurred to Rate on the basis

• Godfridus a Wise Emperoure

Christ the new man, raised on the Cross even as Moses raised the serpent in the wilderness (Numbers 21:4-9; see John 3:14). The Biblia Pauperum ?e? juxtaposes Moses raising the serpent with the Crucifixion, where Christ on the Cross makes

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 37, The Harrowing of Hell

archangel Michael is designated to bind Satan; among the apocalypse scenes in Great East Window in the Minster painted by John Thornton in 1405–08, Michael, who is chaining the Devil, holds a key; see French, York Minster: The Great East