Middle English Literature

Fitzralph, Richard, archbishop
of Armagh and primate of
Ireland 1347–60
, 8; “Defensio
curatorum
” (“Defense of the
Curates”)
, 8, 10–13
Flanders, 151, 172, 226
Flemings, 52, 172, 186, 260
Flint, Wales, 69
Fobbing, Essex, 177
Foke, Roger, 131–2
food, 6, 12, 166, 168, 197–8, 215,
216; fasting, 6, 63, 67, 96;
feasting, 158, 190–7, 199, 227,
228–30; table manners, 190–7
Fordham, Sir John, bishop of Durham
1382–8, 182
foreigners, see Others
Fourth Lateran Council (1215), 21,
114
Foxe, John (d. 1587), Acts and
Monuments, 243–9
France and the French, 46–50, 51–9,
214, 226, 229–31, 255; language,
261
Francis, St. (ca. 1181–1226), Rule, 12,
13
Franciscans, see friars
friars, 7–13, 170, 171, 232; history of,
7–8; and women, 8, 13, 93
Froissart, Jean (ca. 1337–ca. 1405)
,
224–5; Chroniques, xxix, 151,
225–31
Gabriel, Angel, 119–20, 122, 124
Galen (129–ca. 216), 13–14, 18,
19–20
Gallus, Thomas (d. 1246), 110
Garney, Ralph, step-father of Margaret
Paston, see Paston
Garneys, Margery, mother of Margaret
Paston, see Paston
Gaston de Foix (Gaston Phoebus)
(1331–91), Livre de chasse (Book of
the Chase), 198
Gaunt, see Lancaster, duke of
Geoffrey de la Tour-Landry
(ca. 1330–ca. 1405)
, 21; The
Book of the Knight of the Tower
,
21, 22–4, 216, 219–22
Geoffrey of Monmouth (ca. 1100–55),
50; Historia regum Britanniae
(History of the Kings of Britain),
85
George, St., 135, 181, 211, 212, 213
Gerald of Wales (ca. 1146–1222),
Itinerarium Cambriae (Journey
through Wales), 52