• Audelay, Meditative Close

and literary contexts. For these treatments, see Woolf, English Religious Lyric, p. 346; Turville-Petre, "‘Summer Sunday'," pp. 7–9; Tristram, Figures of Life and Death, pp. 164–66; Pearsall, OldEnglish and Middle English Poetry, pp. 185, 250; Fein, "Early Thirteen-Line Stanza,"

• Audelay, Meditative Close

and literary contexts. For these treatments, see Woolf, English Religious Lyric, p. 346; Turville-Petre, "‘Summer Sunday'," pp. 7–9; Tristram, Figures of Life and Death, pp. 164–66; Pearsall, OldEnglish and Middle English Poetry, pp. 185, 250; Fein, "Early Thirteen-Line Stanza,"

• Audelay, Meditative Close

and literary contexts. For these treatments, see Woolf, English Religious Lyric, p. 346; Turville-Petre, "‘Summer Sunday'," pp. 7–9; Tristram, Figures of Life and Death, pp. 164–66; Pearsall, OldEnglish and Middle English Poetry, pp. 185, 250; Fein, "Early Thirteen-Line Stanza,"

• Audelay, Meditative Close

and literary contexts. For these treatments, see Woolf, English Religious Lyric, p. 346; Turville-Petre, "‘Summer Sunday'," pp. 7–9; Tristram, Figures of Life and Death, pp. 164–66; Pearsall, OldEnglish and Middle English Poetry, pp. 185, 250; Fein, "Early Thirteen-Line Stanza,"

• James I of Scotland, The Kingis Quair: Introduction

in Medieval Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1935; rpt. 1970. Pp. 104-6. Pearsall, Derek. "The English Chaucerians." In Chaucer and Chaucerians: Critical Studies in Middle English Literature. Ed. Derek Brewer. Mobile: University Press of Alabama, 1966. Pp. 201-39. Petrina, Alessandra.

• Ancrene Wisse, Introduction

"their," "the woman's," etc., act as equivalents to the. the alde lahe: "the old law" the alde ten heastes: "the old ten commandments" ure alde moder: "our old mother" the brihte sihthe: "the bright sight" 2) because the noun is

• Everyman and Its Dutch Original, Elckerlijc: Introduction

may be seen as an important analogue to the drama and its English adaptation. To be sure, there are differences, for the rich man in the painting is old rather than young, and, it would appear from the details that

• Lydgate, Saint Austin at Compton: Introduction

Marian poetry.33 Lydgate's syntax is frequently artificial to the point of obscurity, more like Latin than English, in that he often inverts the typical English word order of Subject-Verb-Object, and one sometimes has to hunt for the verb at a

• Confessio Amantis, vol. 1: Introduction

interweaving of old maxims, proverbs, tales, social propositions, political alignments it is also a subtly psychological work, a poem that through its rhetoric explores how the human psyche can understand itself within history now. Gower is the first English writer

• John Gower, Traiti selonc les auctours pour essampler les amantz marietz: Introduction

longer one, in Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Fairfax 3 and similar manuscripts, runs as follows: Because the preceding poem in English [i.e., the Confessio Amantis] was by way of example of the foolishness of those in particular who love in

• Lydgate, Mumming for the Mercers of London

of Portland lies in the English Channel just south of Weymouth and was an important harbor in Lydgate’s day. 72 The French town of Calais, located at the narrowest part of the Channel, was for English merchants an important gateway

• In Praise of Peace: Introduction

that he includes such a Latin proem at all. Its presence calls attention to the"Englishness" of the English poem in a way that English lines alone could never do, 23 and, at the same time, the Latin lines signify Gower's

• The Gast of Gy: Introduction

the basic elements of the story, although one English prose version mistakenly states the year as 1333, and both of the four-stress English couplet versions identify Alés (Alexty in the Middle English) as thirty miles from Bayonne. This is clearly

• The Wallace: Selections: Introduction

sall nevir forber Yhong nor ald that abill is to wer. (6.215-18) innocent spare old; is fit to fight He proceeds to kill the sheriff and English inhabitants of Lanark, and his personally motivated reprisal marks the beginning of Scotland's

• Book of Joshua

in English Literature, ed. Jeffrey; HS: Peter Comes­tor, Historia Scholastica, cited by book and chapter, followed by Patrologia Latina column in paren­theses; K: Kalén-Ohlander edition; MED: Middle English Dictionary; NOAB: New Oxford Annotated Bible; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; OFP: Old

• The Northern Homily Cycle: Homily #, Title

Banks; NEHC: Gerould, North English Homily Collection; NHC: Northern Homily Cycle; NIMEV: The New Index of Middle English Verse, ed. Boffey and Edwards; Tubach: Index Exemplorum, ed. Tubach; Whiting: Whiting, Proverbs, Sentences and Proverbial Phrases from English Writings Mainly Before

• The Northern Homily Cycle: Homily 11, Fourth Sunday after Epiphany

pp. 34–38). HOMILY 11, FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY: TEXTUAL NOTES Abbreviations: MED: Middle English Dictionary; NHC: Northern Homily Cycle; OI: Old Irish; ON: Old Norse; Small: English Metrical Homiles, ed. Small. For manuscript abbreviations (ED, A, D, G, L, V),

• The Northern Homily Cycle: Homily 15, Sexagesima Sunday

Homily Collection”; MED: Middle English Dictionary; NEHC: Gerould, North English Homily Collection; NHC: Northern Homily Cycle; NIMEV: The New Index of Middle English Verse, ed. Boffey and Edwards; OE: OldEnglish; OED: Oxford English Dic­tionary; OF: Old French; PL: Patrologia

• Robert Henryson, Shorter Poems: Stronger Attributions

he is healthy; the old man tells him that he will lose his health and vitality; upset, the young man departs, as does the old, leaving me with their conflicting messages. Citing John W. Conlee (Middle English Debate Poetry), Priscilla

• Robert Henryson, Shorter Poems: Stronger Attributions

he is healthy; the old man tells him that he will lose his health and vitality; upset, the young man departs, as does the old, leaving me with their conflicting messages. Citing John W. Conlee (Middle English Debate Poetry), Priscilla