• Audelay, Carol Sequence

sequence possesses an apparent order by number (twenty-five) and arrangement by topic: the articles of faith; the feasts of the Church; support of king (Henry VI) and the social order; veneration of the Holy Family (Anne, Mary, Christ, all of

• Audelay, Carol Sequence

sequence possesses an apparent order by number (twenty-five) and arrangement by topic: the articles of faith; the feasts of the Church; support of king (Henry VI) and the social order; veneration of the Holy Family (Anne, Mary, Christ, all of

• Audelay, Carol Sequence

sequence possesses an apparent order by number (twenty-five) and arrangement by topic: the articles of faith; the feasts of the Church; support of king (Henry VI) and the social order; veneration of the Holy Family (Anne, Mary, Christ, all of

• Audelay, Carol Sequence

sequence possesses an apparent order by number (twenty-five) and arrangement by topic: the articles of faith; the feasts of the Church; support of king (Henry VI) and the social order; veneration of the Holy Family (Anne, Mary, Christ, all of

• Havelok the Dane

(see note) (see note) Young and old loved him vassal; retainer; (see note) Knight, peasant; commoner widows; clerics good might Church; truth and justice Just summoned them Traitors; informers as; bitter drink Outlaws high; gallows took [as a bribe] I

• The Book of John Mandeville

the church of Mercaritot was named for St. Mercaritot. 603 wham, whom. 604 deol, sorrow. 608 synwers, sinners. 609 mysbylive, unbelieving (i.e., non-Christians). 610 to, too. 612 holy grave, Christ’s sepulcher. 612–13 y-closed, enclosed. 613 cherche round, round church. 613–14

• The Assembly of Gods

at the Sea of Galilee and the apostle whose name means "rock," upon whom Christ built his church. Founder of the Roman Church and its first pope, he holds two keys, for the gates of heaven and hell. 1563 Poule

• Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes: Introduction

to the poem. In their need for authoritative support, the Lancastrians were diligent in supporting issues of concern to the church. Prominent among these was the Lollard heresy. Introduced early in the poem in the reference to the burning of

• Sir Eglamour of Artois

towards Quickly (see note) undertaken (the care of) death head chamber (see note) dead whalebone red hideous beast fast measured church; (see note) judgment they removed swooning slain He stayed so long being healed male (see note) Baptism; (see note)

• Sir Orfeo

the body; as Eve, a Celtic analogue to Guenevere, a Proserpina figure; as the anima within the male self, the Church, the "bride of Christ"; and as the human soul. Fulgentius interpreted her name as stemming from "eur dike" or

• The Tale of Ralph the Collier

pact; (see note) here; heath tomorrow health leisure; take crossroad Different roads in faith two pledged high mass handsome people; church robe; of all garment; noon marvelously; first pleased ask had him called rode Except only; appeared person alive passing

• John Metham, Amoryus and Cleopes

1362) additionally provided allegorical commentaries on Ovid's Metamorphoses. Consequently, these two works provided Christian significance - and therefore sanction by Church officials - to Ovid's secular, pagan stories. In the allegorization of the Pyramus and Thisbe story, for example, Pyramus

• St. Andrew and the Three Questions in the Scottish Legendary (c. 1400): Introduction

("Lives of the Fathers").16 The story, which is not in the fifth-/sixth-century Vitae patrum collections, was known in the Greek church by the tenth century, and must have been current in the West at least by the thirteenth century. It

• The Sinner's Lament: Introduction

Dance of Death (under the heading "Daunce of Powlys," a title tying the poem to its public life at the Church of St. Paul's). This copyist was most likely Edmund Carpenter, the first known owner of CCC 237. He may

• Sir Degrevant

I have emended to maintain the rhyme. These two church fathers, together with the other two, are traditionally referred to as the four doctors, i.e., great teachers, of the (Roman Catholic) Church. 1466 fylesoferus. These would include Aristotle, Plato, Seneca,

• The Tournament of Tottenham

followed by the announcement that "he shall wedde" Tybbe, making clear that the real wedding ought to take place in church and not in bed. Still, a marriage that had been consummated with mutual consent of the partners (as is

• The N-Town Plays: Play 14, Trial of Mary and Joseph

character of the Den, or Dean, raises issues about the play's setting. The late medieval den could either be a church official with juris­diction over part of an archdeaconry or a guild officer (MED). While both are possible for this

• The N-Town Plays: Play 38, Cleophas and Luke; Appearance to Thomas

Cleophas is possibly passed through Jacobus de Vora­gine’s Golden Legend (trans. Ryan, 2:250), which mentions Gregory’s Moralia and another unnamed church father as sources. 3 castel of Emawus. Spector observes that castellum in the Vulgate is a village, but that

• William Paris, Life of St. Christina

62 As in Poules lyfe. The dramatic acts of grace which converted St. Paul from a persecutor of the early church to one of its chief missionaries are related in Acts 9:1-30. 64 As Barabas thef, that honge so hye.

• Pearl

the hosts of heaven arranged around; (see note) expressly expounded Himself river from copious; room; (see note) Swiftly; rushed slime Church; moreover built temple fitting; (see note) refresh; (see note) shut open; roadway no one; refuge moon; steal; (see note)