INDEX
Ælfric, [17], [40], [42], [43], [154], [155], [157] Alexander the Great, [51], [53], [105], [137] Alfred, King, [17], [19], [33], [34], [35], [41], [43] Amadace, Sir, [84], [130] Amadas et Ydoine, [55], [77] Ancren Riwle, [154]-7 Andersen, Hans, [83], [128] Anelida and Arcite, [113], [174], [175], [180], [181] Apollonius of Tyre, [57] Arnold, Matthew, [8] Arthur, King, [50], [86], [87], [120] Auchinleck MS., [90] Ayenbite of Inwit, [150]
Ballads, [116]-23 Barbour, [162] Bede, [34], [37] Bentham on the Middle Ages, [10] Beowulf, [23], [24], [25], [26], [27], [29], [30], [34], [43], [45], [52] Bestiary, [138], [154] Bevis of Southampton, Sir, [25], [98] Boccaccio, [28], [174], [175], [179], [181], [182], [185] Boethius, [34], [41], [43], [171] Book of the Duchess, [173], [178], [181], [183] Book of the Duchess Blanche, [133] Britain,’ ‘Matter of, [50]-1, [52], [53], [85] Bruce, [162] Bunyan, John, [98], [132], [138], [139], [145] Burne, Minstrel, [58] Burns, Robert, [56], [114], [115] Byrhtnoth, [29]
Cædmon, [34], [35], [37] Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale, The, [186] Canute, his boat song, [107], [109] Canterbury Tales, The, [28], [64], [168], [170], [184], [185], [186] Carole, The, [61], [63], [64] Chansons de Geste, [52], [70] Charlemagne, [52], [53], [87] Chaucer, [20], [43], [55], [63], [64], [69], [94], [96], [97], [113], [133], [134], [140], [141], [143], [160], [163]-86 Chevelere Assigne, [105] Chrestien de Troyes, [79], [80], [81], [82], [85], [166] Chronicle, The English, [41] Clerk’s Tale, The, [184] Clopinel, Jean, [140] Cockayne, Land of, [132] Complaint to Pity, [173], [178] Confessio Amantis, [133], [167] Courtly Poets, [63], [64], [66], [68] Cuckoo Song, [57], [59] Cursor Mundi, The, [161] Cynewulf, [37], [38], [39], [44]
Dante, [8], [9], [65], [66], [75], [144], [160], [168], [171], [177], [179], [181], [185] Deor’s Lament, [38], [119] Deschamps, Eustace, [174] Dream of the Rood, The, [36], [37] Dryden on Chaucer, [183]
Emaré, quoted, [97]
Fabliaux, [127]-32 Faerie Queene, The, [26], [99] Fall of the Angels, The, [36], [44] Faroese Ballads, [53], [119] Ferabras, Sir, [54] Finnesburgh, The Fight at, [26], [29] Floris and Blanchefleur, [89] France,’ ‘The Matter of, [50]-1, [52], [53] Franklin’s Tale, The, [184] French Poetry, [48], [49], [50], [52], [53], [54], [55], [56], [59], [60], [69], [70], [72], [163], [176] Friars of Berwick, [130] Froissart, [166], [173]
Gawain, Sir, [50], [52] Gawain and the Green Knight, [45], [60], [86], [101], [102], [103], [104], [105], [144] Genesis, Anglo-Saxon poem, [35] Geoffrey of Monmouth, [52], [86], [87] Germania, The, [18], [20], [21], [27] Giraldus Cambrensis, [62], [84], [108] Godric, St., [107], [108], [109] Gower, John, [55], [56], [63], [69], [134], [164], [165], [166], [167] Grimm, [13], [129] Guillaume de Lorris, [140] Guy of Warwick, [98]
Hampole, Richard Rolle of, [63], [162] Harleian MS., the, [110]-3, [114],116 Havelock the Dane, [45], [88], [89] Henryson, Robert, [125] Hous of Fame, The, [143], [170], [178], [184] Huchoun, [106] Huon of Bordeaux, Sir, [25]
Ipomedon, Romance of, [76], [77], [78], [79]
Kerry Recruit, The, [57], [58] King Horn, [88], [89], [98] Knight’s Tale, The, [175], [181], [182]
Lais, Breton, [83], [86], [94] Launfal, Sir, [83], [84], [93] Layamon’s Brut, [45], [52], [87], [88], [153], [154] Legend of Good Women, The, [66], [72], [143], [168], [174], [183], [184] Lewes, Song on the Battle of, [111] Libeaus, Sir, [98], [99], [100], [102] Luve Ron, [109] Lydgate, John, [98] Lyndsay, Sir David, [161] Lyric poetry, [56]-63, [107]-23
Maldon, Battle of, [29], [30], [33], [39], [40], [43], [52] Malmesbury, William of, [44] Malory, [86], [88] Man in the Moon, [113] Map, Walter, [84], [87] Marie de France, [83], [84], [86], [94] Melibeus, [169] Michael of Kildare, Friar, [113] Minnesingers, [67], [69] Minot, Laurence, [95], [112] Monk’s Tale, The, [185] Moral Ode, [152], [153] Morte Arthure, in alliterative verse, [45], [60], [86], [105], [106]
Nibelungenlied, [21], [22], [29], [48]
Odyssey, The, [24] Ohthere, [19], [20] Orfeo, Sir, [90], [91], [92], [93], [94], [117] Ormulum, [57], [58], [59], [151] Osborne, Dorothy, [81] Ovid, read by French poets, [72], [176] Owl and the Nightingale, The, [64], [133]-6
Parliament of Birds, [181], [183] Pearl, [103], [143] Petrarch, [49], [65], [66], [75], [143] Piers Plowman, [30], [31], [45], [143], [144]-9 Provençal poetry, [67], [68], [69]
Reynard the Fox, [124]-7 Riddles, Anglo-Saxon, [40] Rime of Sir Thopas, [79], [94], [96], [97], [103], [104], [168], [178] Robert of Brunne, [159] Robert of Gloucester, [158], [178] Robin Hood, [122] Roland, [51], [52], [53] Roman d’Eneas, [71], [73], [176] Roman de Troie, [51], [52], [53], [71], [105] Rome,’ ‘The Matter of, [50], [51] Rood, Dream of the, [36], [37] Rose, Roman de la, [139]-43, [163], [166], [167], [171], [173] Ruin, The, [39], [44] Ruskin, [8], [9] Ruthwell verses, the, [37]
St. Cecilia, Life of, [178], [179] Saints, Lives of the, [43], [159] Salomon and Saturnus, [40] Saxo Grammaticus, [28], [48], [66] Science, popular, [160] Scottish Field, The, [30] Seafarer, The, [39] Seven Wise Masters of Rome, [137], [167] Sidney, Sir Philip, [72] Sigfred (Sigurd, or Siegfried the Volsung), [21], [22], [27] Sirith, Dame, [127] Soul’s Ward, [157] Spenser, [65], [73], [75], [99], [139]
Tacitus, [18] Thomas de Hales, Friar, [109] Thopas, Rime of Sir, [79], [94], [96], [97], [103], [104], [168], [178] Tristrem, Sir, [90], [94], [99], [100], [120] Troilus and Criseyde, [51], [168], [170], [181], [182], [186]
Verse, Anglo-Saxon, [30]-40 —later alliterative, [45], [46] —rhyming, [57], [58], [59], [79], [114], [115], [178], [179]
Voltaire, [49] Vox and the Wolf, The, [124]
Waldere, Anglo-Saxon poem, [16], [22], [29] Wanderer, The, [39], [44] Wayland Smith, [34] Welsh poet writing English, [114] Widsith, [22], [26], [33], [38], [119] Wife’s Complaint, The, [39] William of Malmesbury, [28], [44] William of Palerne (or William and the Werwolf), [55], [105] William of Poitiers, [47], [48], [114] Wycliffe, [42]
Ypotis, [98] Ywain and Gawain, [80]
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