• Pety Job: Introduction

Stratford (at Bow), another not-far-distant community of gentle birth and breeding, and was buried, along with her husband, in the church of the London Austin friars' convent. . . . [I]n the preamble of [her] extremely pious [will] the Countess

• Godfridus a Wise Emperoure

says that clerks make images de cera (of wax). Image making by any unauthorized person was considered sacrilege by the church, yet the boundary between devotional "magic" - liturgical prayer and eucharistic practices - and the magic of wizards and

• Lay le Freine

of the Hebraic; so, for example, the Synod of Nimes in 1252 guaranteed that abandoned children who died near a church would be buried in sanctified ground unless "written evidence or some other sign should indicate that an abandoned child

• The York Corpus Christi Plays: Play 31, The Trial before Herod

the Gospel of Nicodemus and the Stanzaic Life, and was reputed to have been illustrated in a window in Christ Church on King’s Square along the pageant route.1 An extant example in York glass from c. 1420–30 is present in

• Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love

point, he defines her allegorical significance thus: "Margarite a woman betokeneth grace, lernyng, or wisdom of God, or els holy church" (Book 3, lines 1123-24). This definition both helps and hinders. It helps in that in its simplicity and straightforwardness,

• John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Volume 2: Introduction

might respond to the "lines" of miracle plays, those "quike [living] bookis" for unlearned folk.19 Such drama, whether staged at church door, the public square, roadside, or in books, exempla, or gnomic maxims, improvises before our eyes, ears, and consciousness.

• John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Volume 2, Book 3

arrest the pope and bring him to trial by a church council in France. For discussion of events surrounding the two "quarelles" (n.b. 2.2967), see Brian Tierney, The Crisis of Church and State, 1050-1300: with Selected Documents (Toronto: University of

• The Awntyrs off Arthur

the clergy to read and to sing (i.e. to celebrate masses) 66 Throughout all Britain the Queen had [them] ring [church] bells THE AWNTYRS OFF ARTHUR: NOTES Unlike Hanna's edition, this text does not try to indicate the shape or

• Dispute between Mary and the Cross

they are not obviously superior to the lines in VS, which are retained here. In particular, The Festivals of the Church at line 199, "The blood droppyd as dew on ryssche," echoes the last of these lines. Lawton speculates from

• Ancrene Wisse, Part Five

mortal sin, [and has] lost not only the sweet Father of heaven and St. Mary, his precious Mother, or Holy Church - when he [will] not have [anything] from her either less nor more - and the angels of heaven,

• John Gower, Confessio Amantis, volume 2, Book 2

arrest the pope and bring him to trial by a church council in France. For discussion of events surrounding the two "quarelles" (n.b. 2.2967), see Brian Tierney, The Crisis of Church and State, 1050-1300: with Selected Documents (Toronto: University of

• John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Volume 2, Book 4

arrest the pope and bring him to trial by a church council in France. For discussion of events surrounding the two "quarelles" (n.b. 2.2967), see Brian Tierney, The Crisis of Church and State, 1050-1300: with Selected Documents (Toronto: University of

• Klausner, The Castle of Perseverance

Simony, the buying or selling of church offices for profit, was a substantial problem in the Middle Ages, when many churchmen held temporal administrative positions in addition to their spiritual positions within the church. Dante's Inferno condemned the simoniacs to

• The Wallace: Selections

(see note) task by any manner possible safe conduct Church; meeting; arranged; (see note) promise; meet; straight away Then; equipped dressed; green Each one; carried long [very sharp] swords; cut church; priest put on his vestments meekly heard a mass

• The Poems of Laurence Minot 1333-1352

Where are ye, Skottes of Saint Johnes toune. The Scottish city of Perth is so named because it contains a church dedicated to the saint. 8 boste. Scholle, Stedman, bost. 11 worth. Collette notes that the scribe usually uses the

• Capgrave, The Life of Saint Katherine: Book 4

to work can only say of them; love drones will not engage in spiritual toil (see note) like a field Church assaulted fashioned ask comfort and fresh aid lurking prepare foremost aside old and young i.e., Christianity allow inner recesses

• Orpheus and Eurydice

(see note) covetise; shining on whom Saul; abuse; (see note) (see note) Ahab; (see note) innocent vineyard; (see note) pope church; did abuse regalia unjust seizure; (see note) disposing; revenue tormented further down there; (see note) go recognized Lean; deathly

• The Testament of Cresseid

was beside [the temple]; (see note) anguish enough in heart; (see note) Until; solemn people; (see note) noon devout sad church; (see note) To avoid; knowledge expulsion; (see note) chapel bewail closed; door bare knees; haste manner once; promise flower

• Sir Amadace

parted eaten white deceit my heir she is; (see note) If she; pleasure (reward) entrust fair maiden while (see note) church went noble young warrior given; at that time pound went young gentlemen noble kin recovered grant; (see note) royal;

• Thomas of Hales, Love Rune

associated traditional meanings: Solomon's temple, the heavenly city, Christ's body, a human body, and (less meaningful in Love Rune) the Church. See Cornelius; Rogers, pp. 28-40; Bloomfield, p. 58 n. 8; and Swanton, pp. 247, 283 n. 43. Thomas of