• Poems in Celebration of Mary

wynter. Gray: "A traditional estimate. In Paradiso xxvi Adam tells Dante that he spent 4,302 years in Limbo; in the York play of the Harrowing of Hell (lines 39-40) he says that he has been there for 4,600 years. According

• Ancrene Wisse, Author's Preface

Cassian. For a passionate appreciation of desert spirituality, see The Wisdom of the Desert by the poet Thomas Merton (New York: New Direction, 1970). Paul (?229-342), called the "first hermit" to distinguish him from the Apostle Paul, fled the persecutions

• Poems in Celebration of Mary

wynter. Gray: "A traditional estimate. In Paradiso xxvi Adam tells Dante that he spent 4,302 years in Limbo; in the York play of the Harrowing of Hell (lines 39-40) he says that he has been there for 4,600 years. According

• St. Jerome: Introduction

for his father Henry IV's responsibility for the deaths of the deposed king, Richard II (1400), and Archbishop Scrope of York (1405).21 Shortly beforehand, for similar reasons, he had founded the Carthusian monastery (or "Charterhouse") of Bethlehem of Sheen, on

• Sir Gowther

Odyssey. For an interesting discussion of symbolic wounding see Bruno Bettelheim, Symbolic Wounds: Puberty Rites and the Envious Male (New York: Collier Books, 1962). 646-47 B reverses these lines. 653 B emends he come sone to sone he come. 668

• Poems in Celebration of Mary

wynter. Gray: "A traditional estimate. In Paradiso xxvi Adam tells Dante that he spent 4,302 years in Limbo; in the York play of the Harrowing of Hell (lines 39-40) he says that he has been there for 4,600 years. According

• Thomas of Hales, Love Rune

Sunday, also calls its own form runic (ed. R. H. Robbins, Historical Poems of the XIVth and XVth Centuries [New York: Columbia University Press, 1959], p. 100). Only a few commentators have given close attention to what the term means

• Poems in Celebration of Mary

wynter. Gray: "A traditional estimate. In Paradiso xxvi Adam tells Dante that he spent 4,302 years in Limbo; in the York play of the Harrowing of Hell (lines 39-40) he says that he has been there for 4,600 years. According

• Munday's The Downfall of Robert, Earle of Huntington

A boy, servant to Sir Hugh Lacy. Lord Chester. Friar Tuck. Ralph, Warman's man. Scarlet. Gilbert de Hood, Prior of York and uncle to Robert, Earl of Huntingdon. Justice Warman, Steward to Robert, Earl of Huntingdon; later Sheriff of Notingham.

• The Northern Homily Collection: Introduction

the NHC, he has compared them with their corresponding texts in 1) the four major secular uses in England (Sarum, York, Hereford, Exeter); 2) the four mendicant orders active in the north (Fran­ciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, and Augustinians); 3) the regular

• The N-Town Plays: Play 10, Marriage of Mary and Joseph

sit beata Trinitas shown in the Latin stage direction (Minstrels Playing, p. 81). 302–30 For texts of the Sarum and York versions of the official marriage service, see the Manuale ad usum percelebris ecclesiae Sarisburiensis, ed. Collins, pp. 47–49; or

• The N-Town Plays: Play 11, Parliament of Heaven; Salutation and Conception

intervention: ‘here the holy gost discendit.’" Stevens goes on to compare the Appearance of Our Lady to Thomas, in the York Cycle, where angels sing the Veni de Libano sponsa while Thomas arises to see the Virgin borne aloft by

• Poems in Celebration of Mary

wynter. Gray: "A traditional estimate. In Paradiso xxvi Adam tells Dante that he spent 4,302 years in Limbo; in the York play of the Harrowing of Hell (lines 39-40) he says that he has been there for 4,600 years. According

• The Pistil of Swete Susan

Ages of Man (Oxford, 1986), pp. 95-142. See also Ernst Robert Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (New York, 1953), 98-101, on classical sources of the puer senex. 283 freoly foode, "noble youth." "Fode, offspring, child, person, means

• Poems in Celebration of Mary

wynter. Gray: "A traditional estimate. In Paradiso xxvi Adam tells Dante that he spent 4,302 years in Limbo; in the York play of the Harrowing of Hell (lines 39-40) he says that he has been there for 4,600 years. According

• The Life of St. Benedict

same ornithological family, Turdus, of which throstel/thrush is the common English name (see Webster's Deluxe Unabridged Dictionary, second ed. [New York: Dorset and Baber, 1983], p. 1904, "thrush," with illustration). In all likelihood, therefore, threstelcok could just as easily mean

• Lydgate, Troy Book: Introduction

Library, MS Royal 18.D.vi. London, Inner Temple Library, MS Petyt 524 (fragment). Manchester, John Rylands Library, MS English 1. New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M.876 (formerly Helmingham Hall and Tollemache MS). Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 230. Oxford, Bodleian

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

early example of English polyphony, appears in Woolridge, p. 308, and in Gustave Reese, Music in the Middle Ages, (New York: Norton, 1940) p. 389. Commentary: Weber, pp. 139-45. The poem is a paraphrase of the sequence Stabat juxta Christi

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

early example of English polyphony, appears in Woolridge, p. 308, and in Gustave Reese, Music in the Middle Ages, (New York: Norton, 1940) p. 389. Commentary: Weber, pp. 139-45. The poem is a paraphrase of the sequence Stabat juxta Christi

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

early example of English polyphony, appears in Woolridge, p. 308, and in Gustave Reese, Music in the Middle Ages, (New York: Norton, 1940) p. 389. Commentary: Weber, pp. 139-45. The poem is a paraphrase of the sequence Stabat juxta Christi