• Sir Perceval of Galles: Introduction

Kelmscott, 1895. French, Walter Hoyt, and Charles Brockway Hale, eds. Middle English Metrical Romances. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1930. Rpt. New York: Russell tien de Troyes English'd." Neophilologus 71 (1987), 596-613. [Examines how the English poet changes characters, shortens

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

the sepulcher, saying Play 37, APPEARANCE TO MARY MAGDALENE Abbreviations: PP: Passion Play, ed. Meredith (1990); s.d.: stage direction. Both York and N-Town include separate plays devoted to Christ’s appearance to Mary Mag­dalene, and they are both based on John

• Fouke le Fitz Waryn: Introduction

caravan of two monks, fifty-two yeomen, and seven pack-horses transporting the goods of the abbot of St. Mary's Abbey in York. In both works, the two groups are abducted into the forest, where they are questioned about the amount and

• The Cloud of Unknowing: Introduction

Baker. London: Burns, Oates, 1952. Progoff, Ira, trans. The Cloud of Unknowing. New York: Dell, 1957. Walsh, James, ed. and introduction. The Cloud of Unknowing. New York: Paulist Press, 1981. Wolpers, Clifton, trans. The Cloud of Unknowing. Baltimore: Penguin Books,

• Capgrave, The Life of Saint Katherine: Introduction

Margery Kempe (p. 354, n. 35).] Heffernan, Thomas J. Sacred Biography: Saints and Their Biographers in the Middle Ages. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. 167-84. Horrox, Rosemary, ed. Fifteenth-Century Attitudes: Perceptions of Society in Late Medieval England. Cambridge:

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

of the Chesse, 1474 Edition (folio, 74 leaves, type 1) Newberry Library, Chicago Pierpont Morgan Library, New York New York Public Library, New York Huntington Library, San Marino, CA Library of Congress, Washington, DC Yale Center for British Art, New

• The Shewings of Julian of Norwich: Introduction

to Medieval Women's Visionary Literature. Ed. Elizabeth Alvilda Petroff. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. 3-59. Rahner, Karl. Visions and Prophecies. Trans. Charles Henkey and Richard Strachan. New York: Herder and Herder, 1963. [Roman Catholic theologian briefly covers the

• Stanzaic Guy of Warwick: Introduction

of Warwick. Garland Studies in Medieval Literature 14. New York: Garland, 1996. Smithers, G. V. "The Style of Hauelok." Medium Ævum 57 (1988), 190-218. Stopford, Jennie, ed. Pilgrimage Explored. Woodbridge, UK: York Medieval Press, 1999. Weiss, Judith. "Emperors and Antichrists:

• Middle English Marian Lyrics: Introduction

English Songs. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Dronke, Peter. The Medieval Lyric. London: Hutchinson University Library, 1968. Dunn, Charles W., and Edward T. Byrnes, eds. Middle English Literature. San Diego: Har-court Brace, 1973. Rpt. New York: Garland, 1990. Fehr,

• The N-Town Plays: Play 18, Magi

from the other longer plays. Towneley (Play 14), the York Masons’/Goldsmiths’ Play (16), and the Chester Vintners’ Play (8) all have characters who advise Herod (Consultus in Towne­ley; Counselors in York; Doc­tor in Chester) and deliver the prophecies of Christ’s

• The Life of St. Scholastica in the South English Legendary: Introduction

For the York and Exeter breviary lections for Scholastica's feast day see Breviarium ad Usum Insignis Ecclesie Eboracensis, ed. Lawley, 75.195-97; Ordinale Exon., ed. Dalton and Noble, 3.207. Among the details from Gregory's Dialogues not found in either York or

• The Storie of Asneth: Introduction

Joseph and Aseneth: A New Translation and Introduction. In The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, ed. James H. Charlesworth (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1985), II, 177-247. [Includes discussion of the sixteen manuscripts of the Greek version, with summary discussions of the

• Robert of Cisyle: Introduction

ed. Roberd of Cisyle. Berlin: Bernstein, 1887. French, Walter Hoyt, and Charles Brockway Hale, eds. Middle English Metrical Romances. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1930. Pp. 931-46. Criticism Baker, Joan. “Deposuit potentes: Apocalptic Rhetoric in the Middle English Robert of Sicily.” Medieval

• Sir Amadace: Introduction

Religious Lyrics, and Piers Plowman. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1951. Loomis, Laura Hibbard. Medieval Romance in England: A Study of the Sources and Analogues of the Noncyclic Metrical Romances. Second ed. New York: Burt Franklin, 1960. Putter, Ad. “Gifts

• Second Book of Maccabees 6 and 9

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. The Paraphrase-poet’s presentation of the story of Eleazar after the

• Lay le Freine: Introduction

Lays in Middle English. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1965. Pp. 80-94. Sands, Donald B. Middle English Verse Romances. New York: Holt, Rinehart chal, Chantal. "Le lai de Fresne et la littrature difiante du xiie s." Cahiers de Civilisation Medivale

• Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love

vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1899-1902. Greetham, D. C. Textual Scholarship: An Introduction. New York: Garland, 1992; rpt. 1994. ------. Scholarly Editing: A Guide to Research. New York: MLA, 1995. ------. "Textual Forensics." PMLA 111 (1996), 32-51. Hallmundsson, May Newman. "The

• The Testament of Cresseid: Introduction

Modern Language Notes 49 (1944), 265-69. . "Henryson and Chaucer." Modern Language Quarterly 6 (1945), 271-84. . Robert Henryson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1949. Strauss, Jennifer. "To Speak Once More of Cresseid: Henryson's Testament Re-considered." Scottish Literary Journal 4

• Anticlerical Poems: Allas, What Schul We Freris Do

make it knowun to lewid men" (taken from Middle English Literature, ed. Charles W. Dunn and Edward T. Byrnes [New York: Harcourt, 1973], p. 488). The whole defense was inserted into a translation into English of Wyclif's complaint against friars

• The N-Town Plays: Play 21, Christ and the Doctors

being performed in other parts of the British Isles besides Coventry, York, and Chester. There is even a play by John Bales on the topic. The five extant texts (York Play 20, part of Chester Play 11, Coventry Weavers’ Pageant