• The Annunciation

was "sprung from the royal race and family of David" (1:1, in Lost Books of the Bible [Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1926]), p. 17. 11 ful of hape. The word hape is rich in meaning. For this

• Emar

1927; rpt. New York: Johnson, 1973); Mary G. Houston, Medieval Costume in England Mary G. Houston, Ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine Costume and Decoration, 2nd ed., A Technical History of Costume, vol. 2 (London: Adam rpt. New York: Barnes Joan

• The Annunciation

was "sprung from the royal race and family of David" (1:1, in Lost Books of the Bible [Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1926]), p. 17. 11 ful of hape. The word hape is rich in meaning. For this

• The Annunciation

was "sprung from the royal race and family of David" (1:1, in Lost Books of the Bible [Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1926]), p. 17. 11 ful of hape. The word hape is rich in meaning. For this

• The Annunciation

was "sprung from the royal race and family of David" (1:1, in Lost Books of the Bible [Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1926]), p. 17. 11 ful of hape. The word hape is rich in meaning. For this

• Capgrave, The Life of Saint Katherine: Book 1

in the Early Italian Renaissance," Beyond Their Sex: Learned Women of the European Past, ed. Patricia H. Labalme (New York: New York University Press, 1980), pp. 66-90. Many medieval Englishwomen would, however, have appreciated Katherine's reluctance to give up the

• Alliterative Morte Arthure

London, New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1900. Be: Larry D. Benson, ed. King Arthur's Death. Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1974. Bj: Erik Bjorkman, ed. Morte Arthure. Alt- und mittelenglische Texte, 9. Heidelberg and New York: Carl

• Alliterative Morte Arthure

London, New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1900. Be: Larry D. Benson, ed. King Arthur's Death. Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1974. Bj: Erik Bjorkman, ed. Morte Arthure. Alt- und mittelenglische Texte, 9. Heidelberg and New York: Carl

• Alliterative Morte Arthure

London, New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1900. Be: Larry D. Benson, ed. King Arthur's Death. Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1974. Bj: Erik Bjorkman, ed. Morte Arthure. Alt- und mittelenglische Texte, 9. Heidelberg and New York: Carl

• Amis and Amiloun Introduction

Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1993. [Based on the Bodleian (Douce) MS.] Rickert, Edith. Early English Romances in Verse. New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1967. [Modernized text.] Weber, Henry. ed. Metrical Romances of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries. 3

• Sir Gowther: Introduction

a wooded locale. 18 See Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (New York: Vintage Books, 1973): "The madman's voyage is at once a rigorous division and an absolute Passage. In one sense,

• Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love, Appendix 1

Geburtstag. Philologica Germanica 1. Vienna: Wilhelm Braumller, 1974. Luria, Maxwell S., and Richard L. Hoffman, eds. Middle English Lyrics. New York: Norton, 1974. McCulloch, Florence. Mediaeval Latin and French Bestiaries. Second ed. University of North Carolina Studies in the Romance

• The N-Town Plays: Play 3, Cain and Abel

a dramatization of the story found in Genesis 4:1–16. It bears comparison with the Cain and Abel plays in the York (Play 7), Chester (last half of Play 2), and Towneley Plays (Play 2). The idea of spiritual and earthly

• The N-Town Plays: Play 23, Parliament of Hell; Temptation

performed in many parts of the British Isles and conti­nental Europe. The other existing English cycle plays such as the York Smiths’ Play (22) and the Chester Butchers’ Play (first half of Play 12) focus on the episode as Satan’s

• The N-Town Plays: Play 30, Death of Judas; Trials before Pilate and Herod

is in his own scaffold on his throne, surrounded by his legal entourage. 177–80 The other English plays, except for York, do not charge Jesus with sorcery. The fifteenth-century punishment for treason (dragging by wild horses, drawing, and burning; or

• The N-Town Plays: Play 31, Satan and Pilate’s Wife; Second Trial before Pilate

The "whyte clothe" may suggest Jesus' innocence or priesthood (PP, p. 203n486sd). The same costume for Jesus is used in York Play 31 and Chester Play 16. 1–37 Satan's dense, alliterative cant (typical of dramatic tyrants) recalls Herod's rag­ing speeches

• Anticlerical Poems: Preste, Ne Monke, Ne Yit Chanoun

See "'Caim's Castles': Poverty, Politics, and Disendowment," The Church, Politics and Patronage in the Fifteenth Century, ed. Barrie Dobson (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984), pp. 45-81. 120 such throng. For another vision of a plenitude of friars, see The

• Prik of Conscience: Introduction

injunctions were promulgated in England by Archbishop John Pecham’s Lambeth Constitutions of 1281 (in Latin) and later by Archbishop (of York) John Thoresby, who charged John Gaytryge to translate his instructions for the people into what became the Lay Folks

• A Gest of Robyn Hode: Introduction

values and power. Select Bibliography Texts Child, F. J., ed. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. 5 vols. Rpt. New York: Dover, 1965. Vol. III, no. 117. Dobson, R. B., and J. Taylor. Rymes of Robyn Hode. London: Heinemann, 1976.

• Poems Against Simony and the Abuse of Money: London Lickpenny

medieval London. In 1319 Cheap contained "mercers, pepperers, fishmongers, cheesemongers, bakers, poulterers, and cordwainers" (D. W. Robertson, Chaucer's London [New York: Wiley, 1968], p. 23). This Cheap in the west, near the Shambles and Newgate, should be distinguished from Eastcheap,