• Pearl: Introduction

of visual arts; dramatic progress of narrator; sources of topoi.] Staley, Lynn. The Voice of the Gawain-Poet. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. [Exegetically informed study of the four poems of Cotton Nero A.x.] ---. "Pearl and the Contingencies

• The Palis of Honoure: Introduction

Provostship of St. Giles. The Sixteenth-Century Prints of The Palis and the Text of this Edition No contemporary manuscripts of The Palis of Honoure are known to exist. However, there are complete copies extant of two sixteenth-century editions of this

• Sir Perceval of Galles: Introduction

Perceval of Galles: A Study of the Sources of the Legend. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1911. [Sees multi-stage development of the English poet's work with which Chrtien had little or no influence.] Hood, Edna Sue. Sir Perceval of Galles:

• The N-Town Plays: Play 37, Appearance to Mary Magdalene

nyth and day. The poet focuses nicely on the paradox of Mary Magdalene as the weeper (see Richard Crashaw’s poem, "The Weeper," and the tradition of affective piety), a paradox of the em­pathizer’s weeping/bleeding sorrow ("for sorwe myn hert doth

• The Cloud of Unknowing: Introduction

overwhelming nine levels of ascent. This elaboration of the three phases of Origen and Gregory of Nyssa, though it comes from Denis, probably owes something to Augustine's festival of triads in the De Trinitate. The multiplication of triads exists also

• The Poems of Laurence Minot 1333-1352: Introduction

of Gilling West (five kilometers north of Richmond) in 1284-85. Stedman prints notices of a deed by which Richard, son ofRichard de Thormodby, gives to Roger Mynyot and Isolda his wife and John his son, and the heirs

• Robyn Hod and the Shryff off Notyngham: Introduction

of Medieval England (London: Methuen, 1970), R. M. Wilson observes that the stories of Eustache were well-known in England (p. 117). Among other accounts, now lost, two fourteenth-century chroniclers, John of Canterbury and William of Guisborough, recounted his adventures.

• Anticlerical Poems and Documents: Introduction

and Documents: Introduction Return to Menu of TEAMS Texts Copyright Information for this edition ans, Walter of Chtillon, the Archpoet of Cologne, Gerald of Wales, Nigel Wireker, and the author of the Apocalypse of Golias. It is perhaps not sufficiently

• Stanzaic Guy of Warwick: Introduction

of pilgrimage with the idealism of romance, the Stanzaic Guy of Warwick contributed to the construction of a late medieval cultural icon. Select Bibliography Indexed in IMEV 946. The Manuscript of the Stanzaic Guy of Warwick Edinburgh, National Library

• Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love

of the initial letters of the chapters of each book. When restored (see below, vi c, for further discussion of this crux), the acrostic reads: MARGARETE OF VIRTW HAVE MERCI ON THIN USK.20 The very progress of the chapters

• A Gest of Robyn Hode: Introduction

audience interested in some form of political resistance. Peter Coss (1985) rests his case on the concept of "cultural diffusion" and Richard Tardif (1983) explored the mediation of contemporary conflict by relating the strains of the texts to urban problems,

• LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCY: Introduction

was a cousin ofRichard Roos [they shared the same paternal grandmother, Lady Beatrice Roos] and his grandfather was Sir William Bourchier, count of Eu, who married the widow of Edmund, earl of Stafford, a nephew of Lady Beatrice Roos);

• The Sinner's Lament: Introduction

similarly warning of the afterlife, The Vision of Tundale and The Trental of Saint Gregory. The Sinner's Lament also appears in the important manuscript of romances copied by Robert Thornton of Yorkshire, Lincoln Cathedral MS 91. The arrangement of this

• Thomas of Hales, Love Rune

of courtly love-verse. Influenced by the mystical love language of such writers as Hugh of Saint Victor and Bernard of Clairvaux, however, the writers of twelfth- and thirteenth-century virginity tracts were not shy in relegating to God the virility

• Richard the Redeless

the conflict between Henry Bolingbroke, the duke of Lancaster, and Richard after Henry's return from exile. Bolingbroke, along with the Percies of Northumberland, the Earl of Westmoreland, and the Duke ofYork (whom Richard had appointed as Regent when he

• Pety Job: Introduction

of myschefe and of derknes, Whereas dampned soules dwell, The londe of woo and of wrechednesse, Where ben mo peynes than tonge may telle, The londe of dethe and of duresse, In whyche noon order may dwelle, The londe

• Middle English Marian Lyrics: Introduction

the Old Testament stories of Anna, mother of Samuel, and of Sarah, mother of Isaac, as well as the Gospel accounts of Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist, and of the conception of Jesus. Accounts of Mary's death and bodily

• The N-Town Plays: Play 6, Moses

95 The secund precept of the fyrst tabyll: The name of God take nevyr in vayne; Swere none othis be noon fals fabyll. The name of God thu nevyr dysteyn. Bewhare of othis for dowte of peyn! Amonges felacheppe whan

• Prik of Conscience: Introduction

edition by Richard Morris of British Library Cotton Galba E.ix (a copy of the main version). Morris’ text is available electronically through the Corpus of Middle English and Verse from the University of Michigan. Dan Michel’s Ayenbite of Inwyt (ed.

• Poems of Political Prophecy: When Rome is Removed

Brut - great grandson of Aeneas - was the eponymous founder of Britain in Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain and in later chronicle histories of England. See also the opening lines of Sir Gawain and the