• Capgrave, The Life of Saint Katherine: Book 1

a break Go To The Life of Saint Katherine, Book 2 Capgrave, The Life of Saint Katherine: Book 1 Notes JOHN CAPGRAVE, THE LIFE OF SAINT KATHERINE, BOOK 1: FOOTNOTES 1 Honorable on the battlefield, a peacemaker at home 2

• The Vision of Tundale

in The Celtic Heroic Age: Literary Sources for Ancient Celtic Europe and Early Ireland and Wales, ed. John T. Koch in collaboration with John Carey, third ed. (Andover, MA: Celtic Studies Publications, 2000), pp. 76-105. 568 A wondur long, narow

• Capgrave, The Life of Saint Katherine: Book 4

face delights Go To The Life of Saint Katherine, Book 5 Capgrave, The Life of Saint Katherine: Book 4 Notes JOHN CAPGRAVE, THE LIFE OF SAINT KATHERINE, BOOK 4: FOOTNOTES 1 Lines 8-9: From different portions of God's law 2

• Ancrene Wisse, Author's Preface

Fiat, fiat, fiat. AMEN. ["(This is) a book belonging to (lit., of) the church of St. James of Wigmore, which John Purcel gave to the same church at the request of brother Walter de Lodel, then senior precentor (i.e., director

• The Assembly of Ladies

Anelida's Compleynt. 477 stages: Mandeville describes an elaborate throne set on seven 'degrees' or steps in the palace of Prester John (Travels, ed. P. Hamelius, EETS, os 153, 1919, p. 183), very similar to the throne of Darius in the

• Stanzaic Guy of Warwick

the reference could be to John the Martyr, who, along with Paul the Martyr, was slain in the fourth century at Antioch, and is mentioned in Eucharistic prayers, the citation of the saint's nativity makes John the Baptist the more

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

medieval condemnation articulated here. The tradition transmitted through the Adversos Judaeos writings of the Church Fathers (e.g., Tertullian, Justin Martyr, John Chrysostom) describes the Jews’ obstinate rejection of God’s action in Christ, and the just punishment inflicted upon them by

• Part Six

elsewhere in Middle English. See Wright, Irish Tradition, pp. 150–51. 80 John 11. Lazarus, brother of Mary of Bethany, though this Mary was often confused with Mary Magdalen. 90ff. John 12 gives no account of what Lazarus said at the

• John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Book 5

Seint John to borwe. I.e., "committed himself to St. John's care." St. John was a visionary; the implication may be that Jason lends himself to (or puts himself in the hands of) what may come, which only St. John might

• Wimsatt, Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch": Introduction

"balades, roundels, and virelayes" attributed to Chaucer in the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women (F.421–22). His English contemporary, John Gower, wrote two cycles of balades in French. It is not surprising that no texts of French poems identified

• The Joys of Mary

a balsam gum used in embalming, so the gift signifies Jesus' mortality. 35 Levedi. MS: Levid. Brown's emendation. 42 Compare John 7:36. §75 Heyl be thou, Marie, milde quene of hevene. Index no. 1030. MS: St. John's College Cambridge 256,

• Penitential Poems

well of Jacob, where Jesus meets the woman of Samaria and tells her about the "living water" of everlasting life (John 4:1-30). 7 et spes nostra. The MS reads mea, but the English text translates the Latin nostra from the

• Penitential Poems

well of Jacob, where Jesus meets the woman of Samaria and tells her about the "living water" of everlasting life (John 4:1-30). 7 et spes nostra. The MS reads mea, but the English text translates the Latin nostra from the

• Robert Henryson, The Testament of Cresseid

Parliament of Fowls and the Canterbury Tales — in contrast to the voluminous responses to Chaucer by his English follower John Lydgate (Watson, "Outdoing Chaucer"). Explicitly connecting his poem to Chaucer's, Henryson initiated what became the dominant English response to

• The Joys of Mary

a balsam gum used in embalming, so the gift signifies Jesus' mortality. 35 Levedi. MS: Levid. Brown's emendation. 42 Compare John 7:36. §75 Heyl be thou, Marie, milde quene of hevene. Index no. 1030. MS: St. John's College Cambridge 256,

• The Joys of Mary

a balsam gum used in embalming, so the gift signifies Jesus' mortality. 35 Levedi. MS: Levid. Brown's emendation. 42 Compare John 7:36. §75 Heyl be thou, Marie, milde quene of hevene. Index no. 1030. MS: St. John's College Cambridge 256,

• The Scale of Perfection, Book II

dei; sed non apparuit quid erimus. Scimus autem quoniam cum apparuerit, tunc apparebimus cum eo, similes ei in gloria (1 John 3:2). That is: Mi dere frendis, we aren right now whiles that we lyven here the soones of God,

• Alliterative Morte Arthure

France. 588 Prester John was thought to be a Christian ruler living somewhere in the Orient. In The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (a famous fourteenth century book of fictitious travels, presented as a true account), Prester John is said

• Alliterative Morte Arthure

France. 588 Prester John was thought to be a Christian ruler living somewhere in the Orient. In The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (a famous fourteenth century book of fictitious travels, presented as a true account), Prester John is said

• Alliterative Morte Arthure

France. 588 Prester John was thought to be a Christian ruler living somewhere in the Orient. In The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (a famous fourteenth century book of fictitious travels, presented as a true account), Prester John is said