Middle English Literature

court
, of chivalry, 80–1; of Common
Bench, 178, 182; of King’s
Bench
, 69, 145, 146; of law,
145; see also law
Courtenay, William, bishop of London
1375–81, 181, 182
Crucifixion, York plays of, see drama
Cyprus, 171
Danes, 260
Darius III (d. 330 bce), 91
Dartford, Kent, 179
David and Goliath, 213–14
Deonise Hid Divinite, 110
Despenser, Sir Hugh (d. 1401), 229
Despenser, Thomas, see Gloucester,
earl of
Dionysius (pseudo), Deonise Hid
Divinite, 110
Dives and Pauper
, 22, 24–32, 216,
223–4
Dominicans, see friars
Dover, 210
drama, 204–9, 262–72
Dryden, John (1631–1700), xxxi
Duns Scotus, John (ca. 1266–1308), 8
Durham College, Oxford, 236
Durham, bishop of, see Fordham
earthly paradise, 89, 99, 108–10, 252
earthquake, 171
Edmund, St., king of East Angles
855–69, 152–3, 212
Edmund of Langley, see Cambridge
Edward II, king of England 1307–27,
154–5, 236
Edward III, king of England 1327–77,
46, 51, 76, 154–5, 164, 172,
198, 215–16, 225, 230, 236
Edward “of Norwich,” see Aumale
Edward “of York,” see Aumale
Edward the Confessor, St., king of
England 1042–66, 152–3, 212
Edward, Prince of Wales, the Black
Prince (1330–76), 154–5, 230
Egypt, 109, 118, 124
elements, 15, 17
Eltham, near London, 210
enarratio (analysis and exposition of
texts), 249–59, 261, 262–3
England, 50–9, 173, 255
English character, 50–9
English language, xxxv–xxxvi, 56, 59,
75, 125, 156, 242–3, 246, 255,
259–62
Essex, 175, 177, 178–89
Ethiopia, 109
Eucharist, the, 234; Lollards on, 33,
62, 65, 66, 245
Eugenius III, pope 1143–53, 53
Exeter, duke of, see Huntingdon
Fabricius Luscinus (ca. 280 bce), 237
Falstof, Sir John (ca. 1378–1459), 132

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Index
Far East, 58, 92, 99–110; see also
Others
fasting, see food
feasting, see food
Ferrers, Sir Ralph, 182
Fidentinus, 239
Fitzalan, Richard, see Arundel