Middle English Literature

translation of Geoffrey de la
Tour Landry’s Book of the Knight
of the Tower
, 21, 22–4, 219–22
Cecily, St., 223
censorship, 242–9
Chaldea, southern Babylonia, 89, 125
Charles IV, king of France 1322–8, 46
Charles VI, king of France 1380–1422,
226, 230, 231
chastity, 3, 27–8, 93–9
Chaucer, Geoffrey (ca. 1343–1400)
,
xxix, xxxi, xxxv, xxxvi, xxxvii, 1,
8, 236, 273–4; Canterbury Tales
(Ellesmere manuscript)
, 137,
138
, 139, 141; Canterbury Tales
(Hengwrt manuscript)
, 137,
139, 140; portraits of, 133, 137,
141–2; Troilus and Criseyde, 143,
144
Cheapside, London, 85, 183, 212–15,
226
Cheshire, 76
Chester, 69, 70, 77
Chester, earl of, see Edward III
Chichele, Robert, mayor of London
1421–2, 157
Christ, 31, 121, 263–4, 266–70
Christ child, 119–20, 135–6, 152–3
Christine de Pizan (ca. 1365–ca. 1434),
88
class, 23–4, 27, 32, 126, 196, 198,
215, 216–19, 221–2, 264
Clement V, pope 1305–14, Clementines,
10
Clement VI, pope at Avignon 1342–52,
170, 172
Clement VII, pope at Avignon 1378–94,
51
clerks, 175, 178, 184, 186, 218,
238–42, 250–1, 255–7, 274
clothing, see sumptuary

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Index
291
Cloud of Unknowing, The
, 110,
111–14
Cobham, John, Lord (d. 1408), 77
Cologne, 1
Colopeus, 90
Comestor, Peter (d. 1178), 30
Common Bench, court of, see court
communion, 232, 234, 244–5
confession, 3, 8, 10–11, 13, 114, 117,
172; Lollards on, 64–5, 245
confirmation, Lollards on, 66
Constance, Council of (1414–18), 47,
51, 55–9
Constantine the African (d. 1087),
Royal Book, 16, 17, 18, 19
Constantine, the Great, Holy Roman
emperor 306–37, 57–8
Conway, Wales, 69–70, 72
Corinth, Greece, 171
Cornhill, London, 212
Cornwall, John (fl. 1344–9), 261
Corringham, Essex, 177–8