Middle English Literature

Adam of Usk (ca. 1352–1430)
,
Chronicle
, 85–6; continuator of
Higden’s Polychronicon, 70
adultery, see sex
Aethelred II, the Unready, king of
England 978–1016, 55
Agincourt, Battle of (1415), 46–50,
198, 209–10
Albertus Magnus (ca. 1200–80), 58
Alexander of Tralles (d. 605), 20
Alexander the Great (356–23 bce),
88–9, 90–2, 106–8, 237, 275
aliens, see Others
Alnwick, William, bishop of Norwich
1426–36 and Lincoln 1436–49,
38–45, 60–9
Amazons, 88–92, 107
Amon, 125
Anderson, Benedict, 50
Ankerwyke, Buckinghamshire, 37
Anne of Burgundy, duchess of Bedford
(d. 1432), 135–6
Anne, St., 98, 135–6
Anonimalle Chronicle
, xxix, 151, 176,
176–89
anti-fraternal satire, 8, 59–60, 238–42
anti-Semitism, 101, 106–8, 120–1,
122, 147–8, 266–8, 270
Arabia, 124, 125
Aristotle (384–322 bce), 14; De caelo
et mundo (On the Heavens and the
Earth), 16–17
Arundel, earl of, Richard Fitzalan, earl
of Surrey (1346–97), 69, 76–8,
86, 181, 186
Arundel, Thomas, archbishop of
Canterbury 1396–7, 1399–1414
,
32–7, 70, 72–3, 74, 81, 82,
83, 85, 242, 274; Constitutions,
xxxiii, 242, 243–9; De heretico
comburendo (On the Burning of
Heretics), 242
Asia, see Far East
audiences, 232–5

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Index
289
Augustine, St. (354–430), 93, 96,
234; Retraciones, 246; Sermons,
26–8
Augustinians, see friars
Aumale, duke of, Edward “of
Norwich,” duke of York
(ca. 1373–1415)
, 81–2, 198;
Master of Game
, 198–203
Avicenna (980–1037), 17
Avignon, 170–1, 236