• The N-Town Plays: Play 7, Root of Jesse

Judah. Compare 4 Kings (2 Kings) 15:1–7. 93–96 Compare Joel 2:28. See also Spector (S 2:435), who draws parallels with York 12.85 ff and Chester 5.376–84 (MS H). 97, s.n. JOATHAS REX. Jotham was king of Judah and son of

• The N-Town Plays: Play 15, Nativity

probably an English or northern European revision of the tale. There is only one other extant English Nativity play proper, York Play 14. The healing of the unbelieving midwife appears both in N-Town and in Chester Play 6, but the

• The N-Town Plays: Play 16, Shepherds

As part of the Nativity sequence, shepherds' plays were popular and common. Even though all of the English versions — York Play 15, Towneley Plays 12 and 13 (the First and Second Shepherds Plays), Chester Play 12, and part of

• The N-Town Plays: Play 32, Procession to Calvary; Crucifixion

Jesus has Joseph raise a dead man by placing Joseph’s kerchief on the dead man’s face (chap. 40). 49–132 Compare York Play 35. 51 in the devyl way. This is a clever pun as Judeus 1 is clearly cursing by

• The N-Town Plays: Play 35, Harrowing of Hell (2); Appearance to Mary; Pilate and Soldiers

to N-Town. In other cycles Jesus appears first to Mary Magdalene or the three Marys (Magdalene, Jacobi, and Salome in York, Towneley, and Chester). This privileging of the Blessed Virgin Mary emphasizes the Son’s love of his mother and, through

• John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Volume 2: Introduction

(Li Livres dou Tresor). Trans. Paul Barrette and Spurgeon Baldwin. Vol. 90. Ser. B. Garland Library of Medieval Literature. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993. Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Riverside Chaucer. Gen. Ed. Larry D. Benson. Third ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin

• The Joys of Mary

of Lincoln Cathedral Chapter Library (London: H. Milford, 1927), p. 54; Carl Horstmann, Yorkshire Writers: Richard Rolle of Hampole (New York: Macmillan, 1895), p. 377. 1 joys fyve. Usually the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Resurrection, the Ascension, and the Assumption.

• Lydgate, Pageant of Knowledge

body as does the drawing of the anatomical man in Jean duc du Berry’s Trés Riches Heures plate 14 (New York: George Braziller, 1969), one of the greatest of the books of hours which is in and of itself a

• The Martyrdom of St. George

a permanent place in the Roman service books and their northern offspring. He is celebrated with a couplet in the York metrical calendar, composed probably during the time of Archbishop Ecgberht (754-66).2 The Greek legend accompanying the early diffusion of

• The Joys of Mary

of Lincoln Cathedral Chapter Library (London: H. Milford, 1927), p. 54; Carl Horstmann, Yorkshire Writers: Richard Rolle of Hampole (New York: Macmillan, 1895), p. 377. 1 joys fyve. Usually the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Resurrection, the Ascension, and the Assumption.

• The Joys of Mary

of Lincoln Cathedral Chapter Library (London: H. Milford, 1927), p. 54; Carl Horstmann, Yorkshire Writers: Richard Rolle of Hampole (New York: Macmillan, 1895), p. 377. 1 joys fyve. Usually the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Resurrection, the Ascension, and the Assumption.

• Bevis of Hampton: Introduction

ed. The Romance of Sir Beves of Hamtoun. EETS e.s. 46, 48, 65. London: Kegan Paul, Trench Trübner rpt. New York: Burt Franklin, 1960. [A comprehensive study of sources and analogues.] Mehl, Dieter. The Middle English Romances of the Thirteenth

• The Wallace: Selections: Introduction

British Museum. The Actis and Deidis of Schir William Wallace. Ed. William Craigie. Scottish Text Society third ser. 12. New York: Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, 1940 (for 1938). [Facsimile of Robert Lekpreuik's 1570 edition, above.] Fragments of an edition in

• Book of Tobias

French Paraphrase, British Library, MS Egerton 2710, cited by folio and column; Whiting: Whiting, Proverbs, Sentences, and Pro­verbial Phrases; York:York Plays, ed. Beadle. For other abbreviations, see Textual Notes. Unlike the preceding book of Job, the book of Tobias

• Book of Judith

French Paraphrase, British Library, MS Egerton 2710, cited by folio and column; Whiting: Whiting, Proverbs, Sentences, and Pro­verbial Phrases; York:York Plays, ed. Beadle. For other abbreviations, see Textual Notes. As with several books of the Bible (see, e.g., Tobias),

• The N-Town Plays: Play 41, Assumption of Mary

of God, the Transitus Mariae, and Jacobus de Voragine’s Golden Legend (trans. Ryan, 2:77–97). This play parallels three plays from York (Plays 44–46) known as the Death of the Virgin, the Assumption of the Virgin, and the Coronation of the

• Mary Mediatrix

Halliwell, 2:212-13. Editions of BL Harley 2382, fol. 86b; Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry, 4 vols. (1774-81; rpt. New York: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1968), 3.153; Patterson, no. 60. Edition of BL Addit. 39574, fol. 58a: Mabel Day, The Wheatley

• The Scale of Perfection: Introduction

comparison text for Book II.] Translations Clark, John P. H., and Rosemary Dorward. Walter Hilton: The Scale of Perfection. New York: Paulist Press, 1991. [Valuable notes, introduction, and bibliography.] del Mastro, M. L. The Stairway of Perfection. Garden City, NY:

• Mary Mediatrix

Halliwell, 2:212-13. Editions of BL Harley 2382, fol. 86b; Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry, 4 vols. (1774-81; rpt. New York: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1968), 3.153; Patterson, no. 60. Edition of BL Addit. 39574, fol. 58a: Mabel Day, The Wheatley

• Mary Mediatrix

Halliwell, 2:212-13. Editions of BL Harley 2382, fol. 86b; Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry, 4 vols. (1774-81; rpt. New York: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1968), 3.153; Patterson, no. 60. Edition of BL Addit. 39574, fol. 58a: Mabel Day, The Wheatley