Middle English Literature

King’s Bench, court of
, 69, 145,
146
; see also court, law
Knighton, Henry (d. ca. 1396)
, 170;
Chronicle
, xxix, 170–5
knights, see tournaments
Knolles, Sir Robert (d. 1407), 185
Koran, 118–25
Kublai Khan, 100–1, 105
labor, 163–9, 173–5, 176, 215; see also
guilds
Lancaster, duke of, John of Gaunt
(1340–99), 69, 71, 154–5, 175,
177, 181, 182, 183, 274
Lancaster, earl of, Henry de Grosmont
(ca. 1300–61), 171, 172
Lancaster, John of, see Bedford
Lanercost chronicle, 176
Langland, William (ca. 1330–ca. 1400),
8; Piers Plowman, xxix
Langley, Edmund of, see Cambridge,
earl of
Launde, Robert, 189
law, 21, 28–9, 79, 87, 163–4, 247;
canon, 114; court of, 145; game
(1390), 197–8; of Winchester,
187; see also court; King’s Bench
Layamon, 50
lechery, see sex
Legett, Roger (d. 1381), 183
Legge, John, 179, 182, 186
Leicester, 170, 172
Leicestershire, 175
Lent, 6, 223–4
Leo, archpope of Naples (pseudo-
Callisthenes), Historia de preliis
Alexandri Magni, 88
licenciat, 7
Lilleshall, Shropshire, 232
Lincoln, 38, 147, 172; bishop of,
see Gynwell
Little Red Book of Bristol, The
, 156–7,
161–3

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Index
295
Lollards and Lollardy, xxix, 8, 22,
38, 110, 170, 242, 248–59; on
baptism, 63, 66; on confession,
64–5, 245; on confirmation, 66;
Disendowment Bill (1409), 242;
on the Eucharist, 33, 62, 65,
66, 245; on fasting, 63, 67; on
images, 33, 36, 61, 65, 67, 141,
247, 262, 267, 272; on marriage,
63, 66, 245; on oaths, 61,
67, 247; on penance, 66; on
pilgrimages, 32–7, 63, 67, 247,
262; on the pope, 66; on priests,
33, 62–5, 66–7, 269–71; on
saints, 32, 34–6, 62, 67–8, 141,
247, 262; on tithes, 33, 67; trials,
32–3, 59–69; on unction, 67;
uprising (1414), 47
Lombards, 186
London, 8, 217, 226–31; Blackfriars’
Council in (1382), 60; Blackheath,
181–3, 210; bishops of, see
Braybrooke, Courtenay; book
production in, 137, 139; Cheapside,
85, 183, 212–15, 226; Cornhill,
212; courts in, 145; mayors of,
see Brembre, Chichele, Philipot,
Walworth, Wotton; Mile End,
183–5; Paston and, 126–30,
132; pestilence in, 169, 173;
processions in, 47, 209–15;
revolt in (1381), 175, 178–9;
St. Anthony’s church, 157–8;
St. Bartholomew’s Priory, 186,
189; St. John’s Hospital, 175,
178, 183, 185, 188; St. Paul’s
Cathedral, xxxv, 214–15, 228;
Savoy Palace (of John of Gaunt),
175, 183; Smithfield, 151, 175,
186, 188–9, 226–9; Statute of
Laborers and (1351), 169; Tower
of, 69–70, 72–4, 83, 84–5, 86, 181,
182, 183–5, 226; see also guilds
London Bridge, 186, 189, 210–12,
214–15
Lorens d’Orléans (d. ca. 1325), Somme
le Roi, 93
Lot, 125
Louis II, duke of Bourbon (1337–1410),
226
love, 25–6