• The Northern Homily Cycle: Homily 52, Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity

bird head and leg suffer flew threw; baptismal font at once away from him awoke the next morning quickly went; church bath weep Than to do what was required for her soul’s reward she regretted before then turned enter Greets

• The N-Town Plays: Play 10, Marriage of Mary and Joseph

unfold. Mary is metaphorically presented as the soon-to-be-revealed vessel for Jesus, whom Paul calls the "foundation" of "God's building," the Church (1 Corinthians 3:9–17). 225–28 Com . . . I am ny almost lame. Joseph's insistence that he cannot come

• The N-Town Plays: Play 11, Parliament of Heaven; Salutation and Conception

where he discusses similar attitudes toward Mary and the conception of Jesus figured in the pew carvings of South Walsham Church, which seems to suggest common "discourse communities whose thinking and seeing echo that of a play" (p. 383). Although

• The N-Town Plays: Play 27, Last Supper; Conspiracy with Judas

1, possibly referring to a religious guild's patronage of this play. In general, "ordinaunce" also recalls the dicta for the church. See also Love's Mirrour, ed. Sargent, p. li. 1–16 Compare Chester 14.209–24. 9–16 See Luke 19:41–44. Also Matthew 24:2,

• Everyman and Its Dutch Original, Elckerlijc

theology, only through loosing by means of the power of the keys granted to St. Peter and thereafter to the Church; see Matthew 16:19. The crisis for Everyman is that he cannot achieve Salvation unless he is loosed from the

• Gower, Confessio Amantis: Book 1

of the sovereign (line 25), that what was destructive of the church was also subversive of royal power, and that “the sovereign needed the whole­hearted support of the church. . . . The auctor of the Prologue and Genius in

• Gower, Confessio Amantis: Book 8

of the sovereign (line 25), that what was destructive of the church was also subversive of royal power, and that “the sovereign needed the whole­hearted support of the church. . . . The auctor of the Prologue and Genius in

• Anticlerical Documents: The Lanterne of Light

of the three "parties" of Antichrist. Grosseteste appears often in Lollard tracts because he opposed the power of the Roman church. Of him Ranulph Higden says, in John Trevisa's translation: "He sente to e fere pope Innocencius a pistel scharp

• Lydgate, Troy Book: Introduction

Rawlinson D.913 (fragment). Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson poet. 144. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson poet. 223 (fragment). Oxford, Christ Church Library, MS 153 (fragment). Oxford, Exeter College, MS 129. Oxford, St. John's College, MS 6. Editions Bergen, Henry, ed.

• The Boke of Cupide, God of Love

the pope's powers: "And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give to thee the keys of

• A COMPLAYNTE OF A LOVERS LYFE: Introduction

unity and identity."22 Henry also appears to have continued his patronage after he became king, commissioning A Defence of Holy Church, The Life of Our Lady, and other poems. Lydgate continued to serve Henry until Henry's death in 1422, after

• Anticlerical Poems and Documents: The Wycliffite Bible: From the Prologue

. Biblis, colleagues and helpers, to gather together many old Bibles. 237-38 doctouris . . . glosis, doctors of the Church and ordinary glosses (scriptural commentaries). 238 sumdel, somewhat. 240 Lire, Nicholas of Lyra. 241 dyvynis, theologians. 242 harde, difficult.

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

no extant Middle English poem, and, though found in late MSS., was not used in the office of the English Church." (Julian, p. 1082, supports this.) The Royal MS represents a separate tradition from the other MSS. The Royal poet

• The Isle of Ladies

boat lowered at once as was proper a piece of good fortune (see note) cheeks wet hardly So greatly over-exerted church Nor knew fortune's grace walked soft step by step stair central newel-shaft softly out of danger (see note) [I

• Alliterative Morte Arthure

active coming royalty destroyed bereft disordered realm; relieved Christianly man go; men of the shire dealt out complain; on commanded church; body monastery memory; i.e., the duchess goes chooses (i.e., goes); (see note) open plain seeks; ford goes stern (one);

• Alliterative Morte Arthure

hawk gerfalcon death; beloved lie still the Lord; cruel death (see note) by the shortest route sorrowfully Quickly entrusted to church Do; befits; (see note) Honored; reward See that; lack; candles embalmed; (see note) promise claim; reward allow Wait for

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

no extant Middle English poem, and, though found in late MSS., was not used in the office of the English Church." (Julian, p. 1082, supports this.) The Royal MS represents a separate tradition from the other MSS. The Royal poet

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

no extant Middle English poem, and, though found in late MSS., was not used in the office of the English Church." (Julian, p. 1082, supports this.) The Royal MS represents a separate tradition from the other MSS. The Royal poet

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

no extant Middle English poem, and, though found in late MSS., was not used in the office of the English Church." (Julian, p. 1082, supports this.) The Royal MS represents a separate tradition from the other MSS. The Royal poet

• Mary at the Foot of the Cross

no extant Middle English poem, and, though found in late MSS., was not used in the office of the English Church." (Julian, p. 1082, supports this.) The Royal MS represents a separate tradition from the other MSS. The Royal poet