• The Plowman's Tale: Introduction

text of this edition is based on a facsimile of William Thynne's edition of Chaucer's Works (ed. D. S. Brewer; London: Scolar, 1969; reprinted 1976), first published in 1532 and reprinted, with the PlT, in 1542 [= Thynne2]. There were

• Ballad of a Tyrannical Husband

Orchard Halliwell, eds. Reliquiae Antiquae. Scraps From Ancient Manuscripts, Illustrating Chiefly Early English Literature and the English Language. 2 vols. London: John Russell Smith, 1845. Vol. 2, pp. 196-99. Related Studies Purdie, Rhiannon. "Sexing the Manuscript: The Case for Female

• The Cloud of Unknowing: Introduction

17 C xxvi. Cambridge University Library Kk.vi.26. Editions and Translations Hodgson, Phyllis, ed. The Cloud of Unknowing. EETS e.s. 218. London: Oxford University Press, 1944. --, ed. The Cloud of Unknowing. Analecta Cartusiana 3. Salzburg: Institut fr Anglistik und Amerikanistik,

• Codex Ashmole 61: Item 31, The Dietary

physicians, apothecaries, and writers of medical treatises with those names. A Master Anthony de Romanis (of Naples) was practicing in London in the first decade of the fifteenth century. In the 1270s and 1280s, Master Hugh of Evesham gained a

• Item 27, Ypotis: Introduction

Toulmin, ed. A Common-place Book of the Fifteenth Century: Containing a Reli­gious Play and Poetry, Legal Forms, and Local Accounts. London: Trübner and Co.,1886. Pp. 23–46. [Prints text of the Brome MS, now New Haven, Beinecke Library MS 365 (Br).]

• Sir Owain: Introduction

appears in the Auchinleck Manuscript, which was produced in a commercial London scriptorium between 1330 and 1340, for a popular audience. The dialect seems to be that of London, certainly of the East Midlands. True, Sir Owain is, in the

• Sir Tristrem

out leaves to make covers for notebooks" (Arthur Johnston, Enchanted Ground: The Study of Medieval Romance in the Eighteenth Century [London: The Athlone Press, 1964], p. 179). Boswell gave the manuscript to the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh. It remained there

• Two Moral Interludes: The Pride of Life and Wisdom: Introduction

The lives of vice which the three Mights adopt after their seduction are strongly rooted in the world of the London law courts, and an understanding of this part of the play would require some competency in the law on

• Lydgate, Disguising at Hertford

carefully considers would rather be fettered assuage servitude far nor near; (see note) decorated; (see note) Go To Disguising at London Lydgate, Disguising at Hertford JOHN LYDGATE, DISGUISING AT HERTFORD: FOOTNOTES 1 Lines 63–64: If he spoke when he felt

• Richard Maidstone: Concordia

ipse suis!" Dumque strepunt, abeunt, redeunt, regem benedicunt, Exitus est operi terminus iste rei. The Reconciliation of Richard II with London, by Brother Richard Maidstone In praise of friends does Tully lavish such great praise, For, with those gone, the

• Lydgate: Saint Austin at Compton

if they chose. See, e.g., the opening Latin and English documents recording the Archbishop's case against Friar William Russell of London in 1428, Chichele, Register of Henry Chichele 3.118-119 (cited above in note 30 of the Introduction). 25-26 Fro Melchisedech

• Lydgate, The Temple of Glas: Introduction

Temple of glas. London: Wynkyn de Worde, 1506. (STC 17033.7) The temple of glas. London: Rycharde Pynson, 1503. (STC 17033.3) This boke called the Te[m]ple of glasse, is in many places amended, and late diligently imprinted. London: Thomas Berthelet, 1529.

• The Trials and Joys of Marriage, Introduction

James A. Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. ---. Medieval Canon Law. London: Longman, 1995. Bullough, Vern L., and James Brundage. Sexual Practices rpt. 1955, 1990). 3 See Jean LeClerq, Monks on

• The Nativity

of Such Virtue, Fayrfax Series no. 16 (London: Stainer and Bell, 1951); Manning, p. 155, with music; Oliver, pp. 82-83, with music; Bullett, p. 5, with music; E. Routley, The English Carols (London: H. Jenkins, 1958), p. 29, with music.

• The Nativity

of Such Virtue, Fayrfax Series no. 16 (London: Stainer and Bell, 1951); Manning, p. 155, with music; Oliver, pp. 82-83, with music; Bullett, p. 5, with music; E. Routley, The English Carols (London: H. Jenkins, 1958), p. 29, with music.

• The Nativity

of Such Virtue, Fayrfax Series no. 16 (London: Stainer and Bell, 1951); Manning, p. 155, with music; Oliver, pp. 82-83, with music; Bullett, p. 5, with music; E. Routley, The English Carols (London: H. Jenkins, 1958), p. 29, with music.

• The Nativity

of Such Virtue, Fayrfax Series no. 16 (London: Stainer and Bell, 1951); Manning, p. 155, with music; Oliver, pp. 82-83, with music; Bullett, p. 5, with music; E. Routley, The English Carols (London: H. Jenkins, 1958), p. 29, with music.

• The Nativity

of Such Virtue, Fayrfax Series no. 16 (London: Stainer and Bell, 1951); Manning, p. 155, with music; Oliver, pp. 82-83, with music; Bullett, p. 5, with music; E. Routley, The English Carols (London: H. Jenkins, 1958), p. 29, with music.

• The Nativity

of Such Virtue, Fayrfax Series no. 16 (London: Stainer and Bell, 1951); Manning, p. 155, with music; Oliver, pp. 82-83, with music; Bullett, p. 5, with music; E. Routley, The English Carols (London: H. Jenkins, 1958), p. 29, with music.

• The Nativity

of Such Virtue, Fayrfax Series no. 16 (London: Stainer and Bell, 1951); Manning, p. 155, with music; Oliver, pp. 82-83, with music; Bullett, p. 5, with music; E. Routley, The English Carols (London: H. Jenkins, 1958), p. 29, with music.