• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 35, Crucifixio Christi

Meditations on the Life of Christ, trans. Ragusa and Green; MED: Middle English Dictionary; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; RB: Richard Beadle, ed., York Plays; REED: Records of Early English Drama; YA: Davidson and O’Connor, York Art; York Breviary: Breviarium ad

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 37, The Harrowing of Hell

wearing a crown of victory (vittoria cornato) “carried off the shade [ombra] of our first father, of his son Abel, and the shade of Noah, of Moses, the obedient legislator, of father Abraham, David the king, of Israel, his father,

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 17, The Purification of the Virgin

Meditations on the Life of Christ, trans. Ragusa and Green; MED: Middle English Dictionary; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; RB: Richard Beadle, ed., York Plays; REED: Records of Early English Drama; YA: Davidson and O’Connor, York Art; York Breviary: Breviarium ad

• Athelston: Introduction

question of good and evil. The poem provides a clear statement of the cause of the betrayal of King Athelston and the Earl of Stone. The Earl of Dover committed his sin not out of greed, but out of envy.

• The Book of Margery Kempe: Introduction

Trope of the Scribe and the Question of Literary Authority in the Works of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe." Speculum 66 (1991), 820-38. . The Voice of the "Gawain"-Poet. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. . "The Motif of

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 36, Mortificacio Christi

Meditations on the Life of Christ, trans. Ragusa and Green; MED: Middle English Dictionary; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; RB: Richard Beadle, ed., York Plays; REED: Records of Early English Drama; YA: Davidson and O’Connor, York Art; York Breviary: Breviarium ad

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 25, The Entry into Jerusalem

Meditations on the Life of Christ, trans. Ragusa and Green; MED: Middle English Dictionary; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; RB: Richard Beadle, ed., York Plays; REED: Records of Early English Drama; YA: Davidson and O’Connor, York Art; York Breviary: Breviarium ad

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 31, The Trial before Herod

Meditations on the Life of Christ, trans. Ragusa and Green; MED: Middle English Dictionary; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; RB: Richard Beadle, ed., York Plays; REED: Records of Early English Drama; YA: Davidson and O’Connor, York Art; York Breviary: Breviarium ad

• In a Valley of This Restless Mind: Introduction

essential natures of Christ, of the visionary narrator/reader, and even of the named bride Mannis Soule are each to some extent bigendered. The Soule is "man's," yet she is the feminized object of God's love-pursuit. The visionary wanderer of the

• Poems of Political Prophecy: Introduction

editions of J. A. H. Murray for the EETS, of RHR, and of Turville-Petre. I have consulted and profited from Murray's translation of Thomas of Erceldoune's Prophecy (see p. lxxxvi). The Magdalene College Prophecy of Merlin and Thomas of Erceldoune's

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 29, The Trial before Cayphas and Anna

Meditations on the Life of Christ, trans. Ragusa and Green; MED: Middle English Dictionary; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; RB: Richard Beadle, ed., York Plays; REED: Records of Early English Drama; YA: Davidson and O’Connor, York Art; York Breviary: Breviarium ad

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 33, The Second Trial before Pilate

Meditations on the Life of Christ, trans. Ragusa and Green; MED: Middle English Dictionary; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; RB: Richard Beadle, ed., York Plays; REED: Records of Early English Drama; YA: Davidson and O'Connor, York Art; York Breviary: Breviarium ad

• William Caxton, The Game and Playe of the Chesse: Introduction

brother Richard, duke of Gloucester, claimed the throne. Southern England never acknowledged King Richard III’s legitimacy, and various dissidents planned a series of rebellions for October.22 Rutter has surmised that Caxton’s decrease of dedications around this time offers evidence of

• Richard II's Reign and the Peasants' Revolt: The Letter of John Ball (Royal MS)

Letter of John Ball (Stow) Return To The Table of Contents The Letter of John Ball (Royal MS), Notes THE LETTER OF JOHN BALL (ROYAL MS): FOOTNOTE 1 The Son of heaven's King shall redeem everything THE LETTER OF JOHN

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 30, The First Trial before Pilate

Meditations on the Life of Christ, trans. Ragusa and Green; MED: Middle English Dictionary; OED: Oxford English Dictionary; RB: Richard Beadle, ed., York Plays; REED: Records of Early English Drama; YA: Davidson and O’Connor, York Art; York Breviary: Breviarium ad

• The Pistil of Swete Susan: Introduction

daughter ofRichard Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel, and sister of Thomas Arundel (1354-1414), Bishop of Ely, Archbishop ofYork and of Canterbury. She married Humphrey Bohun, Earl of Hereford, Essex and Northampton (1342-73), to whom the alliterative romance William of

• Plowman Writings: Introduction

York: Chelsea, 1949. [Good edition of Song on pp. 134-35.] RHR, pp. 7-9. Wright, Thomas, ed. Political Songs of England. London: Camden Society, 1839. [Pp. 149-52. Edition of Song of the Husbandman with modern English translation at the bottom

• Richard II's Reign and the Peasants' Revolt: Man Be Ware and Be No Fool

ax, and of the stool. The stool was hard, the ax was scharp, The iiij yere of kyng Richard. (see note) executioner's block (see note) Go To The Letter of John Ball (Royal MS) Return To The Table of Contents

• The Shewings of Julian of Norwich: Introduction

to the theme of God as mother in the course of a full-length study of Julian's contributions.] Nuth, Joan M. Wisdom's Daughter: The Theology of Julian of Norwich. New York: Crossroad, 1991. [An explication of the theology of the Shewings

• Stanzaic Morte Arthure

distinct versions of the life and death of King Arthur. The Alliterative Morte Arthure is in the tradition of sober chronicle history, which stems ultimately from Geoffrey of Monmouth's twelfth-century History of the Kings of Britain. Our poet, of course,