Index

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A B C D E F G H I J

K L M N O P Q/R S T U/V

W X, Y, Z

 

A

"A B C," 360
 
Abigail, 564, 753
 
Abraham, 454
 
Adam, 377, 550
 
Adam de la Bassée, 734
 
adultery, 361, 395, 473, 535
 
Aesclepius, 280
 
Aesop. See Life of Aesop
 
aging, 546, 651
 
agriculture, 168, 241, 782
 
Alanus de Insulis, 221
	Anticlaudianus, 563, 734 
	De planctu naturae, 364
 
Albertus Magnus, 383
 
alchemy, 110, 112, 155, 314, 346, 367, 475, 554, 644, 657, 733
 
Alfonsine Tables, 553
 
allegory, 138, 163, 183, 201, 219, 238, 240, 241, 252, 403,
	428, 541, 542, 582, 639, 645, 707, 724, 729, 746,
	752, 761
 
alliteration. See
 rhetorical devices-alliteration
 
alliterative revival, 531, 559
 
alliterative tradition, 204
 
Alphabet of Tales, 788
 
Amalarius, 524
 
Ambrose, St., 154, 283, 291, 372
 
amplification
  See rhetorical devices-amplificatio
 
Ancrene Riwle, 390, 658, 760
 
Ancrene Wisse. See Ancrene Riwle
 
Andreas Capellanus 
	Art of Courtly Love, 54
 
Anelida and Arcite, 125, 238, 770
 
animal imagery, 256, 282, 293, 294, 362, 372, 389, 489, 494,
	530, 574, 617, 621, 622, 631, 648, 734, 750, 789
 
Anslay, Brian, 75
 
anticlerical sentiment, 3, 138, 260, 279, 293, 315, 393, 432,
    463,527, 555, 561, 602, 618, 621, 625, 680, 788
 
Antiovidianus, 110
 
anti-Semitism, 19, 139, 268, 279, 324, 377, 747, 798
 
aphorism, 709, 767
 
Apollonius of Tyre, 21
 
Appius and Virginia, 454
 
apprenticeship, 671
 
Aquinas, Thomas, St., 479, 793
 
aristocracy. See class
 
Aristotle, 85, 144, 588
 
art, 95, 110, 197, 219, 526, 598, 631, 734
	architecture, 341, 383, 404, 604, 740 
	carving, 304 
	in manuscripts, 446, 526 
	motifs, 304 
	painting, 383, 404, 510, 517, 555, 631, 661 
	sculpture, 274, 334, 404
 
Art of Nombryng, 2
 
astrology, 85, 159, 230, 329, 451, 702, 719
 
astronomy, 230, 345, 553, 579
 
Audley, John, 43
 
Augustine, St., 154, 283, 492, 583, 747 
	De civitate dei, 5, 793 
	De doctrina christiana, 6, 142, 212 
	De trinitate, 144
 
authority, 10, 156, 164, 436, 520, 557, 565, 601, 690
 
Averroism, 712
 
Avicenna, 85

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B
Bacon, Roger, 383
 
"Balades de Visage Sanz Peinture," 122
 
Baldeswelle, 297
 
ballad, 70, 117, 597
 
Barth, John, 406
 
bathing. See social customs-bathing
 
beast fable, 425, 489, 550, 631, 789
 
Becket. See Thomas à Becket, St. 
 
Beckett, Samuel, 406
 
Bede
 Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, 696
 
Benoît de Sainte Maure
 Roman de Troie, 10, 522, 731
 
Beowulf, 285, 486, 609, 689
 
Bernardus Silvestris, 23
 
Berners, Lord, 416
 
Berry, Jean, Duc de. See Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry 
 
Beryn, Tale of, 773
 
betrayal, 331
 
Bible, 57, 185, 333, 473, 512, 692, 772, 778
 
Bispel van .ij. clerken, Een, 39
 
Black Death. See Plague
 
Black Mass, 524, 716
 
Blanche of Lancaster, 148, 149, 243, 334, 476, 573, 676, 718
   See also Book of the Duchess 
 
Blind Harry, 29
   Wallace, 29, 674
 
blindness, 29, 42, 65, 98, 142, 281, 307, 326, 541, 644,
   657, 738, 749
 
"Blow, Northerne Wynd," 163
 
Boccaccio, 166, 212, 250, 296, 298, 300, 484, 519, 578, 646,
   729, 775, 793
   Decameron, 34, 79, 509
   Filocolo, 536, 642 
   Filostrato, 18, 111, 144, 255, 259, 335, 654, 659, 703, 771 
     See also Troilus and Criseyde
  Teseida, 45, 51, 125, 364, 545, 654, 737, 770
 
Bodel, Jean De Gombert et des deux clers, 39
 
body imagery, 289
 
Boece. See Boethius
 
Boethius, 2, 23, 121, 122, 246, 250, 302, 314, 407, 412, 420,
     491, 590, 654, 662, 715, 729, 793
  Consolation of Philosophy, 24, 111, 137, 198, 202, 211, 341,
     464, 483, 583, 612, 734
 
Bokenham, Osbern Lyf of S. Cycyle, 396
 
Bona matrimonii, 528
 
Bonaventure, St. 283
 
Book of Cupid, 505
 
Book of the Duchess, 12, 120, 148, 149, 152, 208, 234, 243,
   251, 270, 280, 334, 363, 368, 405, 494, 496, 537, 573, 584,
   590, 598, 623, 632, 645, 661, 676, 718, 751, 754, 763, 795
 
Book of Vices and Virtues, 390
 
Borges, Jorge Luis, 406
 
Bougouin, Simon L'Homme Juste et L'Homme Mondain, 387
 
bourgeoisie. See class
 
Bradwardine, Thomas, Archbishop, 480, 583
 
Brasdefer, Jean Pamphile et Galatée, 520
 
Brinton, Thomas, Bishop of Rochester, 555
 
Brunetto Latini, 2
 
Buridan, Jean, 479

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C
Caeciliae, Passio S., 227
 
Calliope, 434
 
Calvelely, Sir Hugh, 507
 
Canon's Yeoman, 112, 155, 314, 342, 346, 367, 475, 554, 644,
   657, 702
 
Canon's Yeoman's Tale, 40, 110, 144, 155, 183, 314, 342, 346,
   367, 471, 475, 554, 644
 
Canterbury Tales, 15, 16, 95, 109, 134, 140, 156, 162, 192,
   211, 214, 228, 230, 237, 252, 256, 317, 320, 340, 381, 407,
   422, 441, 509, 518, 532, 540, 568, 569, 570, 593, 596, 599,
   604, 621, 627, 669, 675, 690, 716, 725, 732, 773, 774
 
Canticum canticorum. See Song of Songs 
 
Capgrave, John Life of St. Katherine of Alexandria, 774
 
carnival, 14, 15, 294
 
Cartwright, William, 40
 
Cassiodorus, 2
 
Catalogue of Latin and Vernacular Manuscripts from before 
   the XVI Century (Singer Survey), 635
 
catalogue. See rhetorical devices-catalogue
 
Cattes Tale, 542
 
Caxton, William
   Mirrour of the World, 392
 
Cecilia, St., 475
 
Celts, 792
 
Ceres, 283
 
chanson de geste, 247
 
charms, 286
 
Charter of Christ, 240
 
Chaucer
   allusions to, 40, 77, 78, 308, 399, 400, 774 
   analogues, 32, 34, 39, 75, 196, 199, 328, 330, 382, 388,
      642, 670, 761, 789
   as narrator, 458, 584, 754
   as translator, 229
   audience, 17, 58, 88, 214, 313, 478, 508, 592, 601, 619,
      652,718, 725
   authority, view of, 5, 9, 156, 167, 237, 412, 527, 690, 
      695, 700
   authorship debate, 226 
   bibliographies, 80, 165, 435, 469, 607
   biography, 132, 337, 498, 666
   education, 385 
   language, view of, 202, 301, 317, 591
   modern English translations, 33, 539
   narrative technique, 46, 93, 94, 114, 181, 251, 267, 383,
       478, 695, 701, 732, 755, 773, 791 
   narrative voice, 74, 708, 709
   oral delivery, 428, 441
   pilgrim, 47, 349
   portraits of, 92, 176, 510 
   punctuation of, 97, 129, 539 
   reading, 9, 62, 130, 156, 597
   rhetoric, view of, 693 
   scribal emendation, 90, 109, 153, 237, 335, 370, 429, 686
   scribal transmission, 70, 223, 224, 225, 245, 335, 371, 
      483, 568, 569, 601, 629, 697, 740
   seventeenth-century glossaries, 673 
   style, 67, 76, 156, 166, 319, 730, 773 
   writing, view of, 47, 59, 89, 95, 130, 148, 149, 172, 187,
       208, 212, 215, 229, 239, 255, 331, 334, 340, 363, 405,
       406, 449, 510, 525, 603, 645, 690, 715, 734, 796
 
Cherry-Tree Carol, 65, 643
 
chess. See games
 
Chester Cycle. See mystery plays
 
Chevalier à la Robe Vermeille, 585
 
children, medieval view of, 551
 
chivalry. See courtly ideals
 
Chrétien de Troyes
 
Cligès, 326
 
Christine de Pisan, 143 
   Cité des Dames, 75, 452
 
Cicero, 219, 479, 480, 588 
   De amicitia, 656 D
   De oratore, 6 
   Somnium Scipionis, 208, 364, 563
 
class, 5, 43, 82, 115, 119, 137, 164, 188, 209, 211, 215, 239,
   256, 276, 288, 305, 312, 315, 323, 334, 340, 352, 361, 375,
   397, 411, 413, 443, 456, 459, 461, 462, 490, 506, 534, 561,
   585, 593, 619, 636, 670, 706
 
Clementine Recognitions, 21
 
Clerk, 6, 26, 119, 127, 161, 222, 237, 276, 316, 386, 466, 599,
   702, 712, 785
 
Clerk's Tale, 6, 59, 74, 75, 88, 119, 127, 128, 222, 237,
   276, 288, 289, 305, 316, 354, 401, 466, 487, 509, 512, 541,
   586, 707, 712, 730, 743, 746 
   Envoy, 26, 27, 127, 128, 161, 237, 276, 294, 401
 
colonialism, 586
 
Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus, 241
 
commercialism. See trade
 
Compileison de Seinte Penance, 760
 
complaint, 24, 125, 144, 238, 405, 434, 456, 527, 547, 590,
  615, 710, 770
 
"Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse," 253, 461, 710
 
"Complaint of Mars," 451, 579, 719
 
"Complaint to His Lady," 710
 
"Complaint unto Pity," 547, 708
 
confession, 475, 640, 641
 
Constantinus Africanus 
   De coitu, 184
 
contemptus mundi, 350
 
contrast. See rhetorical devices-contrast
 
Cook, 599, 702
 
Cook's Tale, 397, 487, 601, 671, 686
 
Court of Love, 530
 
Court of Sapience, 2
 
court poetry, 54, 313, 619
 
court poets, 317, 461
 
courtly ideals, 13, 30, 45, 52, 54, 105, 195, 216, 220, 247,
   265, 266, 300, 351, 361, 378, 384, 405, 414, 472, 493, 530,
   545, 585, 706, 721, 757
 
courtly love, 4, 32, 53, 72, 96, 131, 160, 175, 214, 240, 248,
   250, 268, 288, 300, 312, 326, 357, 417, 439, 467, 472, 487,
   527, 530, 618, 632, 656, 659, 680, 691, 759, 766, 771
 
Crusades, 351, 606
 
Cupid, 743
 
curses, 359, 687
 
Cursor mundi, 697
 
Cuthberd, St., 736
 
Cycle plays. See mystery plays.

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D
Damian, St., 98
 
Dante, 283, 301, 364, 479, 578, 597, 654, 729, 793
   Commedia, 289, 541, 652
     Inferno, 89, 233, 325, 554, 693 
     Purgatorio, 541 
   Convivio, 233
   Tesoretto, 563
 
Dares Phrygius 
   De excidio Troiae historia, 10
 
De casibus virorum illustrium. See Monk's Tale. 
 
death
   personifications of, 322, 738
   treatment of, 146, 211, 322, 353, 366, 450, 546, 548, 595,
     598, 622, 716
 
debate, 6, 213, 479, 557, 590, 616
 
Deguilleville, Guillaume de, 182, 380
   Pèlerinage de la Vie Humaine, 563
 
demande d'amour, 479, 480, 563
 
Demeter, 283
 
Denis, St., 362
 
Deor, 486
 
Deschamps, Eustache, 301, 368, 462, 734
   Art de dictier, 128 
   Ballade for Chaucer, 521
 
devotions, 373
 
Diana (goddess), 246, 321, 517
 
Dictys Cretensis 
   Ephemeris belli Troiani, 10
 
diminutio. 
   See rhetorical devices-diminutio 
 
disclaimers.
   See rhetorical devices-disclaimers
 
Douglas, Gavin, 356 
   Eneados, 68, 218 
   Palice of Honour, 434 
 
drama, medieval. 
   See mystery plays, morality plays
 
Dream of the Rood, 486
 
dream vision, 12, 118, 125, 126, 163, 181, 219, 251, 365, 383,
   425, 449, 453, 458, 479, 525, 588, 590, 612, 763
 
Dryden, John Palamon and Arcite, 517
 
Dunbar, William, 219, 356, 481 
   "Ane Ballat of the Fen3eit Freir of Tungland," 631 
   "Ballade of Lord Bernard Steward, Lord of Aubigny," 217 
   "Ballat of Our Lady," 217 
   "Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie," 217, 616 
   "In Secreit Place This Hyndir Nycht," 216 
   "Of the Ladyis Solistaris at Court," 216 
   "On the Resurrection of Christ," 631 
   "Petition of the Gray Horse, Auld Dunbar," 631 
   "Schir, Ye Have Mony Servitouris," 217 
   "Thrissill and the Rois," 631 
   "Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo," 216, 631 
   "Wowing of the King quhen he wes in Dunfermeling," 631
 
Duns Scotus, John, 479, 480

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E
education, 426, 538, 561, 566, 725
 
Edward III, 149, 337
 
elegy, 149
 
Emaré, 249, 330
 
"Envoy de Chaucer a Bukton," 95, 461, 709
 
Envoy to Scogan, 172, 461, 462, 603, 656, 709
 
epic, 51, 321, 517
 
Equatorie of the Planets, 228, 448, 638
 
Erl of Tolous, 249
 
Eschez Amoureux, 623
 
Esther, 564, 753
 
Eve, 188, 410, 558, 650, 758
 
Everyman. See morality plays, Everyman  
 
exclamatio. See rhetorical devices-exclamatio 
 
exemplum, 222, 281, 293, 457, 459, 477, 580, 716, 753
 
expolitio. See rhetorical devices-expolitio 

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F
fable, 89, 540
 
fabliau, 14, 28, 94, 158, 214, 282, 313, 397, 407, 408, 443, 
   503, 581, 585, 671, 691, 714, 729, 761
 
Fasciculus morum, 240
 
Finnsburh, 285
 
Flanders, 438
 
"Former Age," 122
 
Fortuna, 159, 723
 
Fortune, 24, 30, 48, 55, 111, 122, 137, 211, 246, 267, 292, 
   300, 320, 325, 377, 402, 464, 472, 478, 491, 540, 541, 550,
   555, 590, 612, 654, 662, 680, 682, 715, 723, 745, 789
 
"Fortune," 708
 
Foure Leues of the Trewlufe, 240
 
Fragments. See Groups
 
Franklin, 53, 123, 133, 164, 209, 288, 367, 414, 439, 456,
   585, 589, 593, 702, 721, 775
 
Franklin's Tale, 24, 37, 53, 81, 93, 123, 144, 164, 215,
   249, 288, 326, 333, 381, 394, 395, 410, 439, 456, 457,
   471, 487, 509, 536, 566, 580, 589, 593, 596, 615, 642,
   653, 684, 693, 739, 775
 
Frederick II of Hohenstaufen
   Privilegium et sententia in favorum iudaeorum, 377
 
free will, 131, 302, 479, 480, 583, 712, 720
 
Freine, Lai le, 249
 
Friar, 291, 306, 352, 432, 459, 463, 566, 581, 626, 640, 702,
   728, 767, 794
 
Friar's Tale, 66, 183, 213, 223, 260, 291, 306, 343, 359,
   459, 463, 523, 581, 626, 728
 
friendship, 116, 275, 300, 312, 462, 670
 
Froissart, Jean, 590, 597, 632
   Chroniques, 416, 424 
   "Ne quier veoir Medee ne Jason," 597 
   Paradys d'Amours, 718 
   Prison amoreuse, 103

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G
Galen, 85, 291
 
Gallus et Vulpes, 789
 
games, 232, 265, 407, 465, 503, 551, 616, 650, 653
   chess, 152, 623
   gambling, 320, 671
 
Garin de Montglane, 623 
 
Gascoigne, Thomas, 182
 
gems, 207, 734
 
General Prologue, 16, 90, 168, 214, 239, 333, 374, 497,
   502, 534, 600, 702, 733, 741, 755, 773
 
Genius (character), 221, 433, 592
 
gentillesse, 52, 81, 119, 209, 288, 394, 414, 466, 467,
   511, 549, 593, 619, 721, 766
 
"Gentillesse," 122
 
Geoffrey of Monmouth 
   Historia regnum Britanniae, 144, 186
 
Geoffrey of Vinsauf, 15, 405, 431, 491 
   Poetria nova, 212, 341, 596
 
Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy, 530
 
Gesta romanorum, 492
 
Ghilini, Gerolamo 
   Teatro d'huomini letterati, 132
 
Giles, St., 346
 
Giraldi, Giglio Gregoris, 571
 
government, 401, 488
 
Gower, John, 182, 296, 531, 544, 654, 690 
   Confessio amantis, 2, 44, 221, 369, 433, 457, 543,
     558, 567, 669, 729, 737 
   Mirour de l'Omme, 558, 567 
   Vox clamantis, 737, 790
 
Great Chain of Being, 683
 
Great Schism, 376
 
Gregory of Nyssa, St., 372
 
Grosseteste, Robert, 383
 
Group I (Fragment A), 256, 397, 407, 599
 
Group II (Fragment B1), 140
 
Group V (Fragment F), 52, 53, 140
 
Group VI (Fragment C), 140, 320, 409, 592
 
Group VII (Fragment B2), 106, 324
 
Group VIII (Fragment G), 554
 
Guido delle Colonne, 597 
   Historia destructionis Troiae, 10, 46
 
Guillaume de Dole, 170
 
Guillaume de Lorris. See Roman de la Rose 
 
Guillaume de Machaut. See Machaut, Guillaume de
 
Guy of Warwick, 301, 623

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H
hagiography, 726, 727
 
Hammond Scribe, 529
 
Harry Bailly. See Host
 
Havelok the Dane, 105, 323, 358
 
Haynes, Margery, 636
 
Hegge. See mystery plays, Ludus coventriae 
 
Henry IV, 10, 149, 742
 
Henry V, 445
 
Henryson, Robert, 356 
   "Ane Blak Moir," 631 
   "Epetaphe for Donald Oure," 631 
   Morall Fabillis 
     "Taill of the Cok and the Jasp," 392 
   "Of James Dog," 631 
   "Preaching of the Swallow," 631 
   "Sheep and the Dog," 631 
   Testament of Cresseid, 48, 68, 577, 711 
   "Turnament," 631 
   "Wolf and the Lamb," 631
 
heraldry, 631
 
heresy, 417
 
hermaphroditism, 647
 
Hermogenes 
   Progymnasmata, 701
 
Herod, 650
 
Hilton, Walter, 559 
   Love of God, 373
 
Hippocrates, 85
 
Hoccleve, Thomas, 628, 697 
   Balade to Sir Henry Somer, 70 
   Mother of God, 70 
   Regement of Princes, 446, 510
 
Holcot, Robert, 559 
   Moralitates, 560
 
Hole, Richard 
   Remarks on the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, 199
 
Homer, 219, 298 
   Odyssey, 156
 
homosexuality, 322, 417
 
Horace 
   Ars poetica, 701
 
Hosea, 174
 
Host, 38, 127, 143, 161, 209, 214, 215, 284, 322, 376, 409,
   430, 460, 518, 540, 552, 555, 572, 637, 657, 675, 680, 724
 
House of Fame, 71, 118, 187, 224, 233, 251, 270, 343,
   367, 449, 525, 584, 652, 653, 655, 754, 763, 769
 
Hubert, St., 306
 
Hugh of Lincoln, St. (Little Hugh, not the bishop), 242, 600,
   798
 
Huon de Bordeaux, 623
 
Hymen, 484

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I
iambic pentameter, 481
 
illustration, 526
 
image clusters, 25
 
imagination, 491, 754, 771
 
incubi, 432, 788
 
Innocents, Feast of the Holy, 485, 600
 
Inns of Court, 385
 
innuendo. See rhetorical devices-innuendo
 
inventio. See rhetorical devices-inventio  
 
irony, 8, 20, 51, 55, 65, 111, 122, 127, 128, 159, 160, 178,
   235, 240, 255, 266, 289, 306, 312, 402, 439, 440, 451, 
   463, 465, 500, 549, 550, 581, 611, 620, 651, 654, 679,
   697, 709, 710, 732, 735, 738, 767, 773, 786
 
Irving, Washington, 40
 
Isaac, 454
 
Isengrimus, 789
 
Isidore of Seville, 2, 734
 
Isopet, 574

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J
Jacobus de Voragine, 475
   Legenda aurea, 198, 227, 727
 
James the Less, St., 185, 512
 
Jean de Meun. See Roman de la Rose 
 
Jerome, St., 109, 412, 580, 640, 758 
   Letter adversus Jovinianum, 436, 643, 768 
   Letter to Pammachius, 768
 
Jews. See Anti-Semitism
 
Job, 127
 
Joce, St., 347
 
John of Garland, 256
 
John of Gaunt, 149, 405, 570, 573
 
John of Salisbury, 143, 793 
   Metalogicon, 6 
   Policraticus, 477
 
John the Baptist, St., 242
 
John the Evangelist, St., 242, 362
 
Joseph's Return, 28
 
Joseph, St., 28, 65, 643, 650
 
Josephus, 747
 
Joyce, James, 406 
   Ulysses, 156
 
Judas Iscariot, 83
 
Judith, 564, 753
 
Julian of Norwich, 559
 
Juno, 494
 
Jupiter, 302
 
Juvenal, 758

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K
Kaubu, Inayat Allah
   Bahar-i Danish, 199
 
Keats, John, 67
 
Kempe, Margery, 426
 
Kingis Quair, 70, 612
 
Knight, 51, 52, 209, 252, 266, 351, 378, 414, 506, 576, 702,
   723, 742
 
Knight's Tale, 11, 30, 32, 45, 51, 60, 72, 97, 103, 105,
   117, 125, 231, 246, 250, 256, 266, 267, 288, 289, 302,
   309, 321, 397, 407, 431, 464, 478, 487, 504, 517, 527,
   530, 545, 566, 677, 683, 723, 730, 737, 741, 745
 
knowledge 
   medieval view of, 684, 705 
   treatment of, 475
 
Kyng Alisaunder, 737

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L
Lai le Freine. See Freine, Lai le 
 
"Lak of Stedfastnesse," 122, 461, 599, 672 
 
Landino, Cristoforo 
   Disputationes Camaldulenses, 197
 
Langland, William, 27, 182 
   Piers Plowman, 138, 177, 201, 211, 542, 598, 697, 713 
   style, 201
 
language, 104, 106, 254, 367 
   dialects, 297, 534 
   learned, 82, 787 
   legal, 84, 394, 547, 776 
   medieval view of, 15, 301 
   origin of new words in, 203 
   treatment of, 51, 81, 130, 215, 283, 293, 344, 411, 688 
   use of, 190, 203, 312, 316, 362, 414, 423, 430, 540, 557, 670
   vernacular, 82, 283, 520, 571
 
law, 606, 637, 678, 721 
   civil, 390 
   commercial, 84, 497 
   history, 677 
   Jewish, 798 
   marriage, 84, 636 
   natural, 605 
   New Testament, 19 
   Old Testament, 19 
   procedure, 776 
   property, 636 
   trials, 535
 
lay, 323, 585
   Breton, 249, 792
 
legal history. See law-history
 
legal language. See language-legal
 
Legend of Good Women, 9, 62, 126, 233, 270, 331, 450, 452, 
     470, 518, 530, 565, 597, 599, 701, 727, 730, 783 
   "Legend of Ariadne," 288 
   "Legend of Dido," 299, 663 
   "Legend of Hypermnestra," 318 
   "Legend of Lucrece," 318, 457 
   "Legend of Medea," 669 
   "Legend of Philomela," 318 
   "Legend of Phyllis," 697 
   "Legend of Thisbe," 186, 450, 704 
   Prologue, 9, 126, 193, 452, 584
 
"Legend of St. Cecile," 376
 
Leges Henrici Primi, 390
 
Lestrange family, 43
 
Letter of Cupid, 737
 
Leu, Gautier, le 
   Sot Chevalier, 585
 
Liber de ludo scaccorum, 152
 
libraries, 445
 
Life of Aesop, 749
 
Lippijn, 42
 
Livre de Troilus, 521
 
Livre du Voir Dit, 361
 
Lollardry, 261, 552
 
Lollius, 212
 
Lorris, Guillaume de. See Roman de la Rose 
 
Loue that God Loueth, 240
 
lovedays, 355
 
Lucan, 298 
   Double Indictment, 6
 
Ludus coventriae. See mystery plays
 
Luis de Mâle, 573
 
Lull, Ramon 
   Libre del Ordre de Cavayleria, 361
 
Lydgate, John, 283, 481, 793 
   Complaint of the Black Knight, 70 
   Fall of Princes, 70, 737 
   Flower of Courtesy, 70 
   Pageant of Knowledge, 70 
   Siege of Thebes, 215 
   Temple of Glass, 70 
   Thoroughfare of Woe, 70 
   Troy Book, 10, 70
 
Lynn, Nicholas of 
   Kalendarium, 228
 
lyric (genre), 645

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M
Machaut, Guillaume de, 117, 319, 368, 462, 494, 567, 597, 632
   Dit de l'Alerion, 365 
   Dit de la Fonteinne Amoureuse, 365, 590, 718 
   Dit dou Lyon, 365 
   Dit dou Vergier, 365 
   "Je Puis Trop Bien," 117 
   Jugement de Roy de Behaingne, 365, 590, 718 
   Jugement de Roy de Navarre, 365, 590 
   Remede de Fortune, 365, 590
 
Macrobius, 763
 
magic, 52, 53, 404, 414, 471, 775
 
Mair, John 
   Historiam majoris Brittaniae (de gestibus Scotorum), 29
 
Malory, Sir Thomas, 283 
   Morte D'Arthur, 105
 
Man of Law, 162, 190, 287, 702, 767
 
Man of Law's Tale, 59, 88, 137, 157, 178, 188, 215, 225,
     239, 270, 287, 309, 318, 320, 330, 370, 371, 403, 454,
     482, 518, 544, 572, 578, 582, 653, 669, 697, 727, 730, 755 
   Epilogue, 162, 422, 423, 562 
   Prologue, 15
 
Manciple, 113, 344, 376, 508, 566, 702, 767
 
Manciple's Tale, 113, 185, 317, 344, 361, 375, 376, 442,
   508, 566, 591
 
Mandeville, Sir John, 182
 
Manning, Robert of Brunne, 697 
   Handlyng Synne, 380, 433
 
manuscripts, 109, 226, 568, 569
   Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Hengwrt, 128, 568,
     569, 740 
   Cambridge, Trinity College 0.3.11, 529 
   Cambridge, Trinity College R.14.52, 529 
   Cambridge, Cambridge University Library Dd, 568, 569 
   Cambridge, Cambridge University Library Dd.1.1, 355 
   Cambridge, Cambridge University Library Dd.4.24, 429, 740 
   Cambridge, Cambridge University Library Gg.4.27, 569, 740 
   Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Bannatyne, 336 
   London, British Library (olim British Museum) Harley 3719, 
     748 
   London, British Library (olim British Museum) Harley 7334, 
     569 
   Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole, 336 
   Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 686, 601 
   San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, Ellesmere, 128, 336, 422,
     526, 568, 569, 740
 
Marie de France, 249 
   Lanval, 105, 611
 
marriage, 21, 26, 50, 81, 94, 107, 127, 141, 144, 154, 171, 188,
   257, 287, 288, 289, 310, 321, 326, 347, 361, 362, 394,
   395, 410, 413, 426, 450, 456, 466, 467, 476, 484, 503,
   511, 512, 528, 530, 541, 545, 549, 558, 565, 575, 576,
   586, 589, 605, 640, 687, 746, 758, 759, 761, 768, 782, 784
 
marriage law. See law-marriage
 
Mars, 85, 238, 246, 302, 321, 329, 517, 741
 
Martianus Capella 
   Marriage of Philology and Mercury, 6
 
Martin, St., 362
 
martyrdom, 287, 333, 485, 518, 600, 713, 726
 
Mary Magdalene, St., 189, 362
 
Mass, 524
 
Maying, 530
 
medical texts, 635
 
medicine, 85, 390, 419, 427, 500, 748, 765
 
melancholy, 368
 
Melibee, Tale of, 47, 76, 134, 143, 167, 499, 510, 556, 570,
   653, 724, 752, 753, 767
 
Mendicants, 138
 
Merchant, 50, 94, 95, 96, 127, 190, 352, 386, 466, 497, 541, 
   679, 702, 714, 767, 785
 
Merchant's Tale, 35, 42, 50, 65, 94, 95, 96, 98, 104, 117,
   127, 147, 199, 215, 245, 388, 411, 466, 487, 509, 528,
   541, 564, 593, 643, 679, 714, 749, 753, 761, 785
 
Mercury, 329, 451, 494
 
metempsychosis, 372
 
Meun, Jean de. See Roman de la Rose 
 
Meunier et les II Clercs, Le, 102
 
Michael de la Pole. See Pole, Michael de la
 
Midas, 8, 575
 
Middle Dutch, 42
 
Middle Scots, 219, 336, 356, 434, 577
 
Miller, 431, 527, 599, 702, 736, 786
 
Miller's Tale, 30, 32, 86, 117, 169, 240, 256, 290, 309,
   397, 411, 431, 457, 487, 509, 527, 528, 535, 604, 625,
   629, 650, 653, 683, 697, 735, 739, 741, 765, 780, 781
 
Milton, John, 67
 
Minsheu, John 
   Guide into the Tongues, 308
 
minstrel tradition. See oral tradition
 
monarchy, view of, 143, 354, 545, 599, 746, 793, 795
 
Monism, 412
 
Monk, 258, 379, 550, 555, 561, 613, 621, 622, 702, 723, 767,
   793
 
Monk's Tale, 198, 320, 464, 566, 593, 613, 630, 654, 
   685, 723, 730, 734, 793
 
morality plays, 387, 713 
   Everyman, 538
 
Morte Arthure, Alliterative, 105, 250, 262, 325, 424, 797
 
Mum and the Sothsegger, 2
 
Muses, 796
 
music, 69, 73, 117, 121
 
mutability, 305, 403, 491, 662
 
Myrc, John 
   Instructions for Parish Priests, 390, 433
 
mystery plays, 36, 116, 650, 713
   Chester Cycle, 3, 139, 171 
   Ludus coventriae (N-Town), 28, 65
   Wakefield (Towneley) Cycle, 3, 116, 171 
     Second Shepherd's Play, 115, 598
   York Cycle, 171
 
mystics. See Hilton, Julian, Kemp, Rolle. 
 
myth, 741

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N
N-town. See mystery plays, Ludus coventriae 
 
narrative technique, 12, 30, 387
 
narrative voice, 208, 251, 398
 
naturalism, 156
 
Nature, 221, 320, 364, 437, 458, 479, 480, 501, 563, 592, 595,
   796
 
Neot, St., 625
 
Nicholas, St., 242
 
Nigel de Longchamps 
   "Daun Burnel the Asse," 681 
   Speculum stultorum, 489
 
Noah, 36, 116, 171, 650
 
Nominalism, 79, 707
 
Norfolk, 297
 
numerology, 151, 748
 
Nun's Priest, 56, 89, 281, 293, 430, 540, 550, 681
 
Nun's Priest's Tale, 89, 117, 239, 274, 277, 281, 293, 331,
   367, 383, 402, 411, 419, 489, 540, 550, 583, 596, 604
   634, 675, 681, 723, 789

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O
oaths, 222, 311, 423, 536, 699, 737
 
occupatio. See rhetorical devices-occupatio  
 
Ockham, William, 480
 
Old English poetry, 286, 391, 486, 531
 
Old Testament, 146
 
oral tradition, 51, 166, 196, 391, 531, 674
 
Origen. See Orygenes upon the Maudeleyne 
 
Orologium sapientiae, 530
 
Orygenes upon the Maudeleyne, 193
 
Ovid, 96, 110, 200, 298, 494, 590, 597, 654, 659, 729, 763 
   Heroides, 22 
   Metamorphoses, 22, 361, 591, 704 
   Pyramus and Thisbe, 35, 96 
   Remedia amoris, 57
 
Ovide Moralisé, 361
 
Owl and the Nightingale, 372, 557, 574, 605, 616, 776

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P
Pacioli, 295
 
pagan gods, 586. See also names of specific deities  
 
Paien, Thomas 
   "Ne quier veoir la biauté d'Absalon," 597
 
palinode, 516
 
Palladius on Husbandrie, 241
 
Pamphilus, de Amore, 296, 520
 
Pardoner, 38, 85, 155, 161, 180, 190, 261, 284, 322, 339, 366,
   430, 440, 477, 500, 524, 548, 587, 592, 594, 599, 624,
   647, 692, 702, 716, 767, 786
 
Pardoner's Prologue, 366, 430, 477, 548
 
Pardoner's Tale, 36, 69, 83, 146, 180, 183, 196, 215,
   239, 320, 322, 328, 333, 339, 350, 366, 390, 409, 411,
   430, 441, 457, 477, 513, 524, 546, 548, 592, 624, 653,
   716, 738, 761
 
Parliament of Fowls, 5, 12, 117, 121, 181, 200, 208, 251,
   270, 288, 364, 365, 425, 458, 479, 480, 501, 525, 563,
   584, 588, 603, 695, 750, 763, 764
 
Parliament of the Three Ages, 338, 453, 531, 616, 651
 
parody, 14, 127, 135, 141, 156, 158, 189, 240, 256, 294,
   301, 324, 362, 383, 643, 650, 659, 710, 716, 752
 
Parson, 252, 315, 374, 390, 460, 552, 572, 576, 596, 648, 702
 
Parson's Prologue, 61, 99, 604
 
Parson's Tale, 112, 182, 215, 252, 390, 409, 552, 572,
   640, 648, 760, 767, 793
 
Partonope of Blois (English), 70, 504
 
Partonopeu de Blois (French), 504
 
patronage, 725
 
Paul, St., 353, 412, 696
 
Pearl-Poet, 283, 533 
   Patience, 63, 204, 559, 616, 705, 720 
   Pearl, 63, 205, 206, 551, 559, 595, 598, 616, 641, 678, 705
   Purity, 63, 204, 263, 307, 515, 705 
   Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 13, 63, 64, 86, 105,
     195, 204, 250, 264, 265, 384, 389, 465, 507, 514, 559, 
     560, 611, 616, 623, 664, 665, 697, 699, 705, 737, 756, 757
 
Peasant's Revolt of 1381, 655
 
Pecham, John, 383
 
penitence, 30, 44, 112, 182, 273, 433, 641, 760
 
Persephone. See Proserpine
 
Pervigilium veneris, 200
 
Peter Damian, St. 
   De divina omnipotentia, 258
 
Peter, St., 362
 
Petrarch, 222, 237, 541 
   Canzoniere, 420 
   De vita solitaria, 6 
   "S'amor non è," 111
 
Phillipa of Hainault, 274
 
Phyllis and Flora, 590
 
Physician, 333, 375, 381, 592, 637, 702
 
Physician's Tale, 37, 318, 320, 333, 375, 381, 409, 427, 454,
   457, 488, 518, 592, 614, 637, 730
 
physiognomy, 786
 
Picardy, 438
 
Piers Plowman. See Langland.
 
pilgrimage, 182, 230, 552, 604, 789, 797
 
Piramus et Thisbé, 597
 
Pits, John 
   Relationem historicarum de rebus Anglicis, 132
 
Plague, 36, 38
 
Plato, 144, 372 
   Gorgias, 6 Timaeus, 142
 
Pliny the Elder 
   Historia naturalis, 199
 
Plowman, 252, 576
 
Pluto, 679
 
Pole, Michael de la, 632
 
Primum mobile, 719
 
Prioress, 19, 56, 90, 150, 170, 268, 269, 274, 293, 393, 431,
   440, 473, 485, 534, 561, 600, 687, 702
 
Prioress's Tale, 19, 56, 88, 145, 150, 242, 244, 268, 278,
   279, 283, 289, 318, 320, 324, 377, 485, 534, 566, 600,
   730, 761, 798
 
Propp, Vladimir, 493
 
Proserpine, 283, 564, 679
 
prosody, theories of, 303
 
proverbs, 82, 141, 478, 520, 724
 
Providence, 137, 377, 631, 715
 
Prudentius 
   Psychomachia, 142 
 
Psyche, 743
 
punctuation, 97, 129
 
puns. See rhetorical devices-puns
 
puy, 428
 
Pythagoras, 2, 341, 372

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Q
Queste del Sainte Graal, 79
 
Qui amore langueo, 240
 
quiting, 397, 411, 535, 550, 613, 683, 736
R
Rachel, 377
 
Raison (character), 221
 
"Ram's Horn," 336
 
Ramsay, John (scribe), 29
 
reading, view of, 445, 561, 588, 688, 725, 774
 
Reason, 292, 430, 501
 
Rebecca, 564, 753
 
Reeve, 87, 158, 232, 241, 282, 297, 599, 696, 702, 736
 
Reeve's Prologue, 353
 
Reeve's Tale, 34, 39, 87, 102, 117, 158, 215, 241, 256,
   282, 289, 297, 397, 443, 455, 487, 602, 653, 683, 736,
   741, 780, 787
 
relics, 176, 426, 548
 
Renaud de Louhans, 211 
   Livre de Mellibee et Prudence, 76, 229, 499, 556, 752
 
Ressoning betuix Age and Yowth, 616
 
Retraction, 182, 292, 596, 604, 640
 
rhetoric,view of, 288
 
rhetorical devices, 53, 59, 60, 339, 439, 513, 613, 710 
   alliteration, 61, 217 
   amplificatio, 15, 405 
   catalogue, 431 
   contrast, 425, 486 
   diminutio, 688 
   disclaimers, 52 
   ethopoeia (adlocutio), 701 
   exclamatio, 477 
   expolitio, 15 
   innuendo, 679 
   inventio, 491 
   occupatio, 9, 52, 130, 270, 414, 478, 669, 688 
   puns, 1, 56, 205, 206, 216, 266, 294, 309, 343, 408, 411,
     440, 455, 646, 697
 
rhetorical training, 779
 
rhyme, 20, 128, 217, 539, 567, 709 
   rhyme royal, 68, 70, 88, 276 
   tail-rhyme, 301
 
Richard II, 242, 331, 461, 672, 793
 
Robert le Devuil, 493 
 
Roche, St., 280
 
Rolle, Richard, 283 
   Form of Living, 373 
   "Luf es Lyf," 211 
   Mending of Life, 373
 
Roman de Flamenca, 691
 
Roman de la Rose, 103, 105, 108, 126, 152, 198, 221, 251,
   296, 300, 322, 365, 473, 563, 588, 590, 592, 718, 734, 737,
   758, 793
 
romance, 13, 14, 45, 51, 105, 123, 164, 170, 214, 247, 248, 250,
     280, 288, 300, 318, 326, 330, 378, 397, 436, 493, 511,
     545, 623, 632, 691, 729, 773 
   Greek, 318
 
Romaunt of the Rose (English translation), 108, 309, 698
 
"Rosemounde." See "To Rosemounde" 
 
Ruce, 742
 
Rüdiger von Munre Irregang und Girregar, 34

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S
saint's life, 88, 227, 287, 318, 396, 518, 582, 722, 726,
   727, 774
 
saint's plays, 713
 
Saints. See primary name of specific saint 
 
Salutati, 118
 
salvation, 139, 150, 151, 180, 357, 373, 377, 557, 559, 624,
   641, 713, 754
 
Samogithia, 742
 
sanctuary, 253
 
Sarai, 404
 
Sarum Breviary, 485
 
Satan, 650
 
satire, 47, 214, 233, 252, 277, 297, 379, 550, 573, 583, 680,
     691, 704,798 
   estates, 380, 429
 
Saturn, 231, 246, 302, 321, 517, 741
 
Schir William Wallace. See Blind Harry, Wallace  
 
Scogan. See Envoy to Scogan 
 
Scotus, John Duns. See Duns Scotus, John
 
scribal emendation, 211, 336
 
scribal transmission, 29, 226, 286, 448, 543
 
sea imagery, 715
 
Second Nun, 90, 376, 644
 
Second Nun's Tale, 31, 88, 142, 144, 227, 289, 292, 320, 375,
   376, 396, 475, 554, 644, 653, 727
 
Second Nun's Prologue, 142
 
Semiramis, 578
 
Seneca, 767
 
sermon, medieval, 513, 760
 
Seven Deadly Sins, 380, 657, 699, 758, 760
 
sexuality 
   medieval view of, 85, 184, 241, 287, 309, 327, 417,
     452, 549, 600, 605, 758, 778
   treatment of, 18, 21, 44, 110, 195, 221, 259, 295, 353,
     357, 386, 443, 465, 528, 565, 575, 648, 729
 
Shakespeare, William, 67, 319 
   The Rape of Lucrece, 369
 
Shipman, 162, 408, 562, 702
 
Shipman's Tale, 1, 84, 141, 245, 295, 311, 362, 382,
   395, 408, 411, 422, 423, 487, 497, 503, 509, 561, 613,
   670, 680, 735, 772, 782
 
sickness, medieval view of, 291
 
Siege of Jerusalem, 747
 
sight, 62, 144, 307, 644, 734. See also blindness
 
Simon, St., 348
 
sin, treatment of, 38, 292, 307, 320, 322, 325, 474, 594,
   602, 614, 624,738
 
Singer Survey. See Catalogue of Latin and Vernacular
   Manuscripts from before the XVI Century. 
 
Sir Degare, 249
 
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. See Pearl-Poet
 
Sir Gowther, 249, 493
 
Sir Launfal, 249, 511
 
Sir Orfeo, 105, 249, 541, 792
 
Sir Perceval of Galles, 220, 248
 
Sir Thopas, 47, 106, 167, 301, 324, 349, 487, 556, 593,
   653, 740, 752
 
Sir Tristrem, 535
 
Skelton, John, 481
 
social customs 
   bathing, 758 
   dress, 305, 379, 380 
   manners, 473
 
Somme le Roi, 737
 
Song of Songs (Canticum canticorum), 411, 643, 785
 
Songe Vert, 632
 
Sophism, 716
 
Sotheworth, Richard, 627
 
Soul and Body, 273, 391
 
spectacle, 387
 
Speght, Thomas, 783
 
Sphere of Life and Death, 748
 
Spring under a Thorn, 240
 
Squire, 14, 52, 53, 133, 162, 209, 414, 502, 585, 593, 688,
   702, 721
 
Squire's Tale, 30, 52, 133, 199, 215, 404, 414, 471, 487, 502,
   566, 593, 669, 688
 
St. Erkenwald, 559, 560, 722
 
Statius, 298, 494 
   Thebiad, 11, 45, 545, 770
 
Stephen of Tournai 
   Summa, 605
 
Stephen, St., 661
 
Stopyndon, John, 627
 
Stow, John 
   Survay of London, 243
 
Stowe, John, 783
 
Strode, Ralph, 191
 
Studentenabenteuer, Das, 34
 
style 
   medieval theories of, 293 
   poetic, 217 
   prose, 658, 748 
   style clergial, 76 
   style curial, 76 
   suffering, 720
 
"Sumer Is Icumen in," 73
 
Summoner, 14, 85, 162, 291, 322, 459, 566, 626, 640, 702,
   767, 778, 794
 
Summoner's Tale, 14, 79, 135, 213, 256, 289, 291, 343, 345,
     348, 495, 608, 626
   Prologue, 260
 
symbolism, 492

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T
Tale of Beryn. See Beryn, Tale of 
 
Tale of Melibee. See Melibee, Tale of 
 
Talking of the Love of God, A, 373
 
theatrical production, 387
 
Thomas à Becket, St., 85, 176, 485
 
Thomas of Woodstock, 445
 
Thomas, St. (Apostle), 135
 
three estates, 527
 
Thynne, William, 783
 
Tibullus, 118
 
"To Rosemounde," 620, 710
 
Tobit, Book of, 280
 
Towneley Cycle. 
   See mystery plays, Wakefield (Towneley) Cycle
 
trade, 214, 295, 404, 413, 438, 497, 780, 782
 
"Tragecall Historie of Charles and Julia," 633
 
Treatise on the Astrolabe, 228, 229
 
Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, 530
 
Trevet, Nicholas Cronicles, 157, 544
 
Trevisa, John 
   Proprietatibus, 734
 
Trevisa, Nicholas 
   De proprietatibus rerum (translation), 2
 
Tristan and Iseult, 280
 
Trivium, 769
 
Troilus. See Livre de Troilus 
 
Troilus and Criseyde, 4, 20, 22, 23, 25, 30, 46, 49, 54, 55,
     57, 58, 68, 74, 78, 82, 91, 105, 111, 114, 126, 131, 136,
     151, 153, 159, 160, 166, 175, 179, 191, 207, 210, 211, 
     212, 233, 235, 244, 255, 259, 288, 289, 292, 296, 298,
     300, 309, 312, 319, 332, 335, 341, 357, 378, 383, 402,
     418, 420, 421, 428, 431, 437, 444, 472, 484, 490, 491,
     510, 519, 520, 521, 522, 530, 553, 646, 653, 659, 660,
     662, 682, 697, 701, 703, 706, 715, 719, 730, 731, 754,
     759, 761, 771, 774, 779, 787, 790, 791, 796 
   Epilogue, 415, 491, 791, 796
   Palinode, 131, 729
 
truth, 55, 174, 187, 280, 314, 339, 517, 589, 738, 769
 
"Truth," 122
 
Twyne, Brian, 308

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U
university. See education
 
urbanization, 417
 
Urry, John, 783
V
Vair Palefroi, 585
 
Valerius ad Ruffinum, 737
 
Venus, 121, 200, 221, 246, 300, 302, 321, 329, 434, 451, 517,
   603, 714, 741
 
Vere, Sir Robert de, 507
 
Vincent of Beauvais, 597 
   Speculum historiale, 198 
   Speculum naturale, 345
 
Virecker, Nigel. See Nigel de Longchamps
 
Virgil, 233, 298, 763 
   Aeneid, 68, 197, 299, 663, 665
 
Virgin Mary, 32, 65, 145, 150, 188, 242, 244, 260, 268, 269,
   278, 324, 428, 600, 620, 643, 650, 743, 785

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W
Wace 
   Brut, 424
 
Wakefield Cycle. See mystery plays
 
Wallace. See Blind Harry, Wallace 
 
Wanderer, 486
 
Wandering Jew, 83, 322, 624
 
war, 517, 606
 
weather, 345, 608
 
Weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell, 431
 
Welsh, 792
 
Westminister Abbey, 253, 661
 
Westminister Chronicle, 327
 
"Widow of Bari," 642
 
Wife of Bath, 6, 8, 26, 81, 107, 127, 128, 141, 154, 155,
   161, 162, 167, 189, 222, 237, 257, 327, 329, 347, 380,
   386, 411, 413, 431, 432, 436, 466, 467, 474, 511, 516,
   549, 565, 575, 576, 580, 587, 596, 610, 618, 624, 636, 
   640, 667, 687, 702, 744, 758, 767, 784
 
Wife of Bath's Prologue, 8, 109, 154, 239, 310, 329, 347, 374,
     426, 429, 436, 467, 528, 549, 572, 575, 576, 640, 697,
     700, 744, 768 
   Book of Wicked Wives, 310, 575, 610
 
Wife of Bath's Tale, 6, 8, 30, 86, 100, 101, 154, 167,
   213, 432, 441, 467, 511, 516, 541, 549, 561, 566, 575,
   611, 697, 744, 766, 788
 
William of Conches, 211
 
William of Palerne, 248
 
Winner and Waster, 338, 531, 616
 
Wirecker, Nigel. See Nigel de Longchamps
 
witchcraft, 86, 390
 
women, 188 
   treatment of, 4, 26, 65, 94, 95, 137, 150, 167, 171, 178,
     193, 195, 238, 285, 313, 336, 397, 426, 441, 443, 450,
     452, 467, 511, 530, 564, 565, 597, 615, 739, 766, 782
   view of, 54, 81, 107, 114, 127, 143, 175, 259, 287, 304,
     310, 327, 361, 370, 371, 380, 384, 413, 429, 432, 436,
     456, 474, 490, 519, 527, 541, 549, 558, 580, 611, 640, 
     706, 774, 781
 
Wordsworth, William, 442
 
Worthies, Nine, 325, 453
 
writing, medieval view of, 79, 110, 197, 214, 218, 219, 431,
   434, 461, 491, 577, 612, 674, 690
 
Wulf and Eadwacer, 286, 398
Y
yeoman, 506
 
York Cycle. See mystery plays
Z
Zephirus, 733
 
zodiac. See astrology

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