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
To go to the bibliography.
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
To go to the bibliography.
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
To go to the bibliography.
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
To go to the bibliography.
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
To go to the bibliography.
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
To go to the bibliography.
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
To go to the bibliography.
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
To go to the bibliography.