• Item 27, Ypotis: Introduction

and this is the main source for the Middle English Ypotis.3 Other, similar works include the various dialogues of Solomon and Saturn in both Middle and OldEnglish, the OldEnglish Adrian and Ritheus, and other descendents of this tradition

• Introduction

of OldEnglish wisdom literature can be found in Shippey's Poems of Wisdom and Learning in OldEnglish, which also provides edited OldEnglish texts and translations. 16 Hansen, Solomon Complex, p. 33. 17 Cavill, Maxims in OldEnglish Poetry,

• Margaret of Antioch: Introduction

and Hugh Magennis. The OldEnglish Lives of St. Margaret. Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 9. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. [Includes two OldEnglish versions and two Latin ones, both with facing-page translations in modern English, with extensive introductions

• The Death of Robin Hood: Introduction

this edition the first full text is from the late eighteenth-century garland The English Archer of 1786, though, as Child notes, it itself "is in the fine old strain" (III, 103). Child prints the ballad early in his collection, as

• Second Book of Maccabees 6 and 9

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

• In a Valley of This Restless Mind: Introduction

on Lambeth.] Cook, A. S., ed. A Literary Middle English Reader. Boston: Ginn, 1915. Pp. 439-40. [3 stanzas, based on Cambridge.] Kaiser, Rolf, ed. Medieval English: An OldEnglish and Middle English Anthology. Third ed. Berlin: Rolf Kaiser, 1958. Pp.

• The Dialogue of Solomon and Marcolf: Introduction

offers Leeu’s English printed text in facsimile, facing a modernized English transcription, with a long introduction, commentary, and an English translation of a 1497 German Solomon and Marcolf play by Hans Folz. Beecher gives special attention to the English text

• Prologue

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 Martyrdom of St. George

OldEnglish Martyrology, ed. Herzfeld, with facing translation; critically edited by Kotzor, Das altenglische Martyrologium. On the sources of the entry see Cross, "Saints' Lives in OldEnglish," pp. 45-51. 11 Among the manuscripts that seem to constitute an

• Emar: Introduction

Man of Law's Tale, Gower's version of the Constance story in his Confessio Amantis, and the Middle English Emar.] Rickert, Edith. "The OldEnglish Offa Saga." Modern Philology 2 (1904-05), 29-76; 321-76. [Examines the Vitae Duorum Offarum (MS Cotton Nero

• Poems of Political Prophecy: Introduction

a longer version of a Merlin prophecy, and discusses its relations with others of the type.] Pearsall, Derek. OldEnglish and Middle English Poetry. London: Routledge, 1977. [Prophecies discussed on pp. 124-25.] Scattergood, V. J. Politics and Poetry in the

• Item 31, The Dietary: Introduction

most popular of these, and it seems to have filled an important niche in the market for Middle English writing. The English employed many different kinds of medicine in the later Middle Ages, which can be divided roughly into two

• Sir Tristrem

Middle English Sir Tristrem, along with other medieval versions of the story, as a source for his Tristram of Lyonesse. In addition, the great French medievalist Joseph Bdier reconstructed Thomas's poem (using its Old Norse, German and Middle English descendants)

• Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes: Introduction

more or less, in their youth, will feel for the poor old versifier4 A more positive assessment is offered by Eleanor Prescott Hammond in her valuable 1927 volume English Verse between Chaucer and Surrey, but in the dominant view obtaining

• Thomas of Hales, Love Rune

Byrnes, eds. Middle English Literature. Second ed. New York: Garland, 1990. Pp. 156-362. Kaiser, Rolf, ed. Medieval English: An Old and Middle English Anthology. Third ed. Berlin: Rolf Kaiser, 1958. Pp. 219-21. Morris, Richard, ed. An OldEnglish Miscellany. EETS

• Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages: Introduction

Two Middle English Alliterative Poems." Parergon 18 (1977), 17-25. Middleton, Anne. "The Audience and Public of Piers Plowman." In Middle English Alliterative Poetry, ed. David Lawton (Suffolk: Brewer, 1982), pp. 101-23. Oakden, James P. Alliterative Poetry in Middle English. Vol.

• Poems Against Simony and the Abuse of Money: Introduction

and accomplished rewriting of the original poem represented by A (Auchinleck) and B (the Bodley text)."] Pearsall, Derek. OldEnglish and Middle English Poetry. London: Routledge, 1977. [Excellent discussion of The Simonie in the context of Alliterative Poetry in chapter

• Item 18, The Knight Who Forgave His Father’s Slayer: Introduction

INTRODUCTION: FOOTNOTES 1 Pearsall, OldEnglish and Middle English Poetry, p. 108. 2 On the custom of “creeping to the cross” barefoot on Good Friday, see Duffy, Strip­ping of the Altars, p. 29. 3 For the English tradition of “love-days”

• The Storie of Asneth: Introduction

in the diverse reaches of the Middle English Storie of Asneth as its pseudo-biblical plot and rich iconography conflate Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, and English culture. Christian Iconography and Pleasant Instruction The Middle English poem is rich in Christian typology,

• The Pistil of Swete Susan: Introduction

in the vernacular English, and containing such important works as the South English Legendary, the Northern Homily Cycle, the Pricke of Conscience, Robert Grosseteste's Castle of Love, the Speculum Vitae, Richard Rolle's Form of Perfect Living, an English translation of