• The Book of Margery Kempe, Book I, Part II

a church of a monastery. 2874 Seynt William, shrine in York Minster of William Fitzherbert, Archbishop ofYork (d. 1154). 2881 meynteyn, maintain. 2884 disesyn, trouble. 2885 apere, appear. 2885-86 Erchebischop of Yorke, Henry Bowet, Archbishop ofYork from 1407

• A True Tale of Robin Hood

rather like Guy of Gisborne. See the end of the Gest. 373 In spite of his modernization of the politics and his containment of the hero, Parker is still story-teller enough to underline the essential mythic elements of the story.

• Richard Maidstone, Concordia: Appendix 3

of the procession itself. The standard treatment of the history of these organizations remains Unwin, The Gilds and Companies of London. For various possible meanings of the demonstration of guild-solidarity that the procession represents, see Federico, "A Fourteenth-Century Erotics

• The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament: Introduction

of tales of heroic women in The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament I have chosen two narratives for this edition, The Story of Jephthah and his Daughter and The Story of Judith, to exemplify contrasting forms

• The N-Town Plays: Note for Passion Play 1 (Plays 26–28)

of “Main Scribe” for the writer and compiler of most of the N-Town Manuscript [c. 1486] and “Reviser B” to denote the scribe who made several alterations and prompt notes in PP2 [c. 1500–25]; for more on the dating

• Erl of Tolous: Introduction

of the motif of the accused queen, the close association between the names Bernard and Barnard, his place of origin (i.e., Toulous), the identification of two accusers (Hugo, Count of Tours, and Matfrid, Count of Orleans), and the resolution

• Items 12-13, An Evening Prayer and A Morning Prayer: Introduction

one of the advantages of a relatively non-par­ticipatory rite.”3 Several other Middle English prayers for both evening and morning survive, and presumably, to a lay audience, the precise form of these prayers would matter less than the saying of them.

• Jack Upland

supportynge of pore men that ye pilen, sith Crist paied tribute to the hethen emperour? Frere, whi axe ye not lettris of brithered of other pore mennes preieris, good and Cristen levers, ne of preestis, ne of monkis, ne of

• Lydgate, The Siege of Thebes: Prologus

many sondry stage Of estatis in the pilgrimage, Everich man lik to his degré, Some of desport, some of moralité, Some of knyghthode, love, and gentillesse, And some also of parfit holynesse, And some also in soth of ribaudye To

• Wynnere and Wastoure

folke of Fraunce ferdede besyde, Of Lorreyne, of Lumbardye, and of Lawe Spayne; Wyes of Westwale, that in were duellen; Of Ynglonde, of Yrlonde, Estirlynges full many, That are stuffede in stele, strokes to dele. And yondere a banere of

• Item 33, Stimulus Consciencie Minor: Introduction

edition of the text was made by Carl Horstmann, but his chosen text was incomplete and unrepresentative of the majority of the other texts. The best text is that of Ad3, which was copied in the last decades of the

• Item 15, A Prayer to Mary: Introduction

this sense of her role as the sympathetic maternal protector for all those in danger of any kind. Mary’s role as queen (one of her many epithets is Regina Caeli, Queen of Heaven) is imagined in terms of protection; she

• John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Volume 3: Introduction

realm of fiction to speak in his own voice to pray for the state of England, there may still be recollections of the education of the king with its celebration of the redemptive propositions of law. The rapacious nature of

• Items 9-11, Latin Epigrams and the Rules for Purchasing Land: Introduction

may have ser­ved as either a lesson for young students of Latin grammar or as a reminder of the vanity of human wishes. The Rules for Purchasing Land resembles some of the conduct texts in its prag­matism and also makes

• Richard Maidstone, Concordia: Appendix 4

(compare 319, 459) 514 auctritas 532 plbem (compare 426, 489) 4.7 Patterns of dactyl (D) and spondee (S) distribution In hexameters (first four feet), by (number of lines [of the total 274 hexameters]) and by percent, from most to least

• The Poems of Robert Henryson: Introduction

274. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1979. [A comprehensive study of Henryson's poems.] CCC. Henryson and the Medieval Arts of Rhetoric. New York: Garland, 1993. [An "open thesis" study of Henryson's use of rhetorical tradition.] MacQueen, John. Robert Henryson. Oxford: The

• Fouke le Fitz Waryn: Introduction

fortunes of one Norman family--the Fitz Waryns. The first third of the story traces the history of the family from Warin de Metz to the birth of Fouke Fitz Waryn III, who is the hero of the last two-thirds of

• The Morall Fabillis: Introduction

simple exclamation of the Sheep near the end of "The Sheep and the Dog" C "O lord, quhy sleipis thow sa lang?" (line 1295) C expresses the frustration of the poor. On the other hand, the unctuous persuasion of the

• Wimsatt, Chaucer and MS French 15 (Penn)

for Isabel ofYork could be presented a second time to Isabel of Bavaria. For identification of Granson’s Isabel as Isabel ofYork, see Braddy, Chaucer and the French Poet Granson, pp. 73–80. In arguing that the Isabel of the

• Pearl

the inventory of Alice Perrers, mistress of Edward III, when her goods were seized in 1379, listing 21,800 pearls and 30 ounces of seed pearls (Frederick Devon, Issues of the Exchequer; Being a Collection of Payments Made out of His