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Amis and Amiloun, Robert of Cisyle, and Sir Amadace

Unknown
Author: Edward E. Foster
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contents: Introduction to Amis and Amiloun
Amis and Amiloun
Introduction to Robert of Cisyle
Robert of Cisyle
Introduction to Sir Amadace
Sir Amadace
forms: Poetry
languages: English, Middle (1100–1500)
time periods: 14th Century, 15th Century
categories: Exemplum, Folk tale, Hagiographic romance, Romance, Family romance, Legacy HTML

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Amoryus and Cleopes

John Metham
Author: Stephen F. Page
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contents: Introduction
Amoryus and Cleopes
forms: Poetry
languages: English, Middle (1100–1500)
time periods: 15th Century
categories: Matter of Rome/Troy, Romance, Family romance, Otherworldly, Legacy HTML

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Ancrene Wisse

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Author: Robert Hasenfratz
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contents: Introduction
Ancrene Wisse
Author's Preface
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Appendix 1: Motif and Exempla Index
Appendix 2: Proper Name Index
forms: Prose
languages: English, Middle (1100–1500)
time periods: 13th Century
categories: Legacy HTML, Prayer

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The Assembly of Gods: Le Assemble de Dyeus, or Banquet of Gods and Goddesses, with the Discourse of Reason and Sensuality

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Author: Jane Chance
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contents: Introduction
The Interpretation of the Names of Gods and Goddesses
Banquet of Gods and Goddesses
forms: Poetry
languages: English, Middle (1100–1500)
time periods: 15th Century
categories: Dream vision, Epic (Poetry), Debate poetry, Rhyme royal, Legacy HTML, Nine Worthies

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The Book of John Mandeville

John Mandeville
Author: Tamarah Kohanski
Editor: C. David Benson
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contents: Introduction
The Book of John Mandeville
Appendix: Sources for The Book of John Mandeville
Bibliography
Indexed Glossary of Proper Names
forms: Prose
languages: English, Middle (1100–1500)
time periods: 14th Century
categories: Travel writing, Legacy HTML

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The Book of Margery Kempe

Margery Kempe
Author: Lynn Staley
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contents: Introduction
The Book of Margery Kempe
Book 1, Part 1
Book 1, Part 2
Book 2
forms: Prose
languages: English, Middle (1100–1500)
time periods: 15th Century
categories: Mysticism, Legacy HTML

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The Canterbury Tales: Fifteenth-Century Continuations and Additions

John Lydgate
Author: Unknown
Author: John M. Bowers
Editor

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contents: Introduction to John Lydgate's Prologue to the Siege of Thebes
John Lydgate's Prologue to the Siege of Thebes
Introduction to The Ploughman's Tale
The Ploughman's Tale
Introduction to The Cook's Tale
The Cook's Tale
Introduction to Spurious Links
Spurious Links
Introduction to The Canterbury Interlude and Merchant's Tale of Beryn
The Canterbury Interlude and Merchant's Tale of Beryn
forms: Poetry
languages: English, Middle (1100–1500)
time periods: 15th Century
categories: Chaucer, Geoffrey, Epic (Poetry), Rhyme royal, Exemplum, Fable, Legacy HTML

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The Castle of Perseverance

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Author: David N. Klausner
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contents: Introduction
The Castle of Perseverance
Bibliography
forms: Drama
languages: English, Middle (1100–1500)
time periods: 15th Century
categories: Bob and wheel verse, Morality drama, Legacy HTML

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Chaucer and the Poems of “Ch” (Revised Edition)

Phillippe de Vitry
Author: Unknown
Author: Oton de Granson
Author: Jean de le Mote
Author: Eustache Deschamps
Author: James I. Wimsatt
Editor

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contents: Introduction
Poem 1, Chançon Royal [The Sovereign Life of Love]
Poem 2, Balade [The Lover Who Melts like Wax]
Poem 3, Balde [The Day of Grace]
Poem 4, Chançon Royal [A Prayer for Lovers]
Poem 5, Balade [The Castoff Lady]
Poem 6, Balade [A New Golden Age]
Poem 7, Balade [A Petition to Jupiter]
Poem 8, Balade [The Bereft Lover]
Poem 9, Chançon Royal [The Parliament of Love]
Poem 10, Rondel [How to Sacrifice in Venus' Temple]
Poem 11, Chançon Royal [The Lady's Perfection]
Poem 12, Balade [Requiem for a Lover]
Poem 13, Balade [The Languishing Lover]
Poem 14, Balade [A Lover's Thanksgiving]
Poem 15, Balade [The Image in the Lover’s Heart]
Appendix: Three Penn Poems of Related Interest
Chaucer and MS French 15 (Penn)
The Contents of Penn
Bibliography
forms: Poetry
languages: Anglo-Norman
time periods: 14th Century
categories: Chaucer, Geoffrey, Ballade, Legacy HTML, Chaucerian rondel

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The Chaucerian Apocrypha: A Selection

Unknown
Author: John Lydgate
Author: John Gower
Author: Kathleen Forni
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contents: General Introduction
Introduction to The Court of Love
The Court of Love
Literature of Courtly Love
Introduction to Literature of Courtly Love
In February
O Merciful and O Mercyable
The Craft of Lovers
The Floure of Curtesye
The Lovers' Mass
The Antifeminist Tradition
Introduction to The Antifeminist Tradition
I Have a Lady (The Descryvyng of a Fair Lady)
O Mosy Quince
Beware (The Blynde Eteth Many a Flye)
Of Theyre Nature
Good Counsel, Wisdom, and Advice
Good Counsel, Wisdom, and Advice: Introduction
Four Things That Make a Man a Fool and Yit of the Same
Eight Goodly Questions with Their Aunswers
Duodecim Abusiones (The Twelve Abuses)
Prophecy
In Praise of Peace
Scogan's Moral Balade
Epigraph
Bibliography
forms: Poetry
languages: English, Middle (1100–1500)
time periods: 14th Century, 15th Century
categories: Chaucer, Geoffrey, Complaint (Poetry), Proverb, Prophecy, Advice for princes, Legacy HTML, Authorship uncertain, Nine Worthies

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Chaucerian Dream Visions and Complaints

Unknown
Author: John Lydgate
Author: Richard Roos
Author: John Clanvowe
Author: Dana M. Symons
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contents: General Introduction
Introduction to The Boke of Cupide, God of Love, or The Cuckoo and the Nightingale
The Boke of Cupide, God of Love
Introduction to A Complaynte of a Lovers Lyfe or The Complaint of the Black Knight
A Complaynte of a Lovers Lyfe
Introduction to The Quare of Jelusy
The Quare of Jelusy
Introduction to La Belle Dame sans Mercy
La Belle Dame sans Mercy
Bibliography
forms: Poetry
languages: English, Middle (1100–1500)
time periods: 15th Century
categories: Chaucer, Geoffrey, Dream vision, Dream vision (Love), Complaint (Poetry), Debate poetry, Exemplum, Legacy HTML

Christine de Pizan's Advice for Princes in Middle English Translation: Stephen Scrope's The Epistle of Othea and the Anonymous Lytle Bibell of Knyghthod

Christine de Pizan
Author: Misty Schieberle
Editor: Stephen Scrope
Translator

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contents: Introduction
The Epistle of Othea
Lytle Bibell of Knyghthod
Bibliography
forms: Mixed poetry and prose
languages: English, Middle (1100–1500)
time periods: 15th Century
categories: Advice for princes, Courtesy Book, Epistolary prose, Exemplum, Matter of Rome/Troy, Rhyme royal, Encyclopedia, Legacy HTML, Nine Worthies

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The Cloud of Unknowing

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Author: Patrick J. Gallacher
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contents: Introduction
The Cloud of Unknowing
forms: Prose
languages: English, Middle (1100–1500)
time periods: 14th Century
categories: Mysticism, Prayer, Sermon, Epistolary prose, Legacy HTML

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Codex Ashmole 61: A Compilation of Popular Middle English Verse

John Mirk
Author: Rate
Author: Unknown
Author: George Shuffelton
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contents: General Introduction
Introductions to Items
Introductions to Items 1-11
Introductions to Items 12-20
Introductions to Items 21-30
Introductions to Items 31-41
Ashmole 61
Item 1, Saint Eustace
Item 2, Right as a Ram's Horn
Item 3, How the Wise Man Taught His Son
Item 4, How the Good Wife Taught Her Daughter
Item 5, Sir Isumbras
Item 6, The Ten Commandments
Item 7, Stans Puer ad Mensam
Item 8, Dame Courtesy
Item 9, Latin Epigram
Item 10, The Rules for Purchasing Land
Items 11a and 11b, Latin Epigram
Item 12, An Evening Prayer
Item 13, A Morning Prayer
Item 14, The Ten Commandments (False Start)
Item 15, A Prayer to Mary
Item 16, The Debate of the Carpenter's Tools
Item 17, A Prayer at the Levation
Item 18, The Knight Who Forgave His Father's Slayer
Item 19, The Erle of Tolous
Item 20, Lybeaus Desconus
Item 21, Sir Corneus
Item 22, The Jealous Wife
Item 23, The Incestuous Daughter
Item 24, Sir Cleges
Item 25, The Feasts of All Saints and All Souls
Item 26, The King and His Four Daughters
Item 27, Ypotis
Item 28, The Northern Passion
Item 29, The Short Charter of Christ
Item 30, The Lament of Mary
Item 31, The Dietary
Item 32, Maidstone's Seven Penitential Psalms
Item 33, Stimulus Consciencie Minor
Item 34, The Stations of Jerusalem
Item 35a, The Sinner's Lament
Item 35b, The Adulterous Falmouth Squire
Item 36, The Legend of the Resurrection
Item 37, Saint Margaret
Item 38, The Wounds and the Sins
Item 39, Sir Orfeo
Item 40, Vanity
Item 41, King Edward and the Hermit
Bibliography
forms: Poetry, Codex
languages: English, Middle (1100–1500), Latin
time periods: 16th Century
categories: Hagiography, Estates Satire, Proverb, Courtesy Book, Romance, Family romance, Biblical exegesis, Lyric poetry, Epigram, Prayer, Debate poetry, Exemplum, Breton lai, Hagiographic romance, Wisdom literature, Folk tale, Recipe, Sermon, Travel writing, Otherworldly, Rhyme royal, Legacy HTML, Authorship uncertain

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Concordia (The Reconciliation of Richard II with London)

Richard Maidstone
Author: David R. Carlson
Editor: A. G. Rigg
Translator

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contents: Introduction
Concordia (The Reconciliation of Richard II with London)
Appendix 1: Other Accounts of the 1392 Royal Entry
Appendix 2: Accounts of Richard's 1377 Coronation Entry
Appendix 3: Dymmok on the Ricardian Extravagance
Appendix 4: Some Features of Prosody and Versification
forms: Poetry
languages: Latin
time periods: 14th Century
categories: Apology, Legacy HTML

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Confessio Amantis, Volumes 1-3

John Gower
Author: Russell A. Peck
Editor: Andrew Galloway
Translator

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contents: Preface
Volume 1: Introduction
Volume 2: Introduction
Volume 3: Introduction
Confessio Amantis
Prologue
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Book 4
Book 5
Book 6
Book 7
Book 8
The Colophons
Volume 1: Bibliography
Volume 2: Bibliography
Volume 3: Select Bibliography
Reference Index to Volume 3
Subject Index to Volumes 1-3
forms: Poetry
languages: English, Middle (1100–1500), Latin
time periods: 14th Century
categories: Complaint (Poetry), Dream vision, Dream vision (Boethian), Dream vision (Love), Debate poetry, Exemplum, Utopian fiction, Matter of Rome/Troy, Romance, Apology, Legacy HTML, Advice for princes, Alexander the Great, Arthuriana, Matter of England, Nine Worthies

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Croxton Play of the Sacrament

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Author: John T. Sebastian
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contents: Introduction
Croxton Play of the Sacrament
Appendix: Music
Bibliography
forms: Poetry, Drama, Music
languages: English, Middle (1100–1500)
time periods: 14th Century, 15th Century
categories: Drama, Mystery drama, Vengeance of Our Lord literature, Music, Legacy HTML

The Destruction of Jerusalem, or Titus and Vespasian

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Author: Kara L. McShane
Editor: Mark J. B. Wright
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contents: Acknowledgments
Abbreviations List
Introduction
The Destruction of Jerusalem
Explanatory Notes
Textual Notes
Bibliography
forms: Poetry
languages: English, Middle (1100–1500)
time periods: 15th Century
categories: Hagiographic romance, Romance, Vengeance of Our Lord literature, TEI-XML

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The Dialogue of Solomon and Marcolf: A Dual-Language Edition from Latin and Middle English Printed Editions

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Author: Nancy Mason Bradbury
Editor: Scott Bradbury
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contents: Introduction
The Dialogue of Solomon and Marcolf
Appendix
Bibliography
forms: Mixed poetry and prose
languages: English, Middle (1100–1500), Latin
time periods: 15th Century
categories: Debate poetry, Proverb, Wisdom literature, Riddle, Mysticism, Legacy HTML

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The Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers

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Author: John William Sutton
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contents: Introduction
The Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers
1. Zedechye
2. Hermes
3. Zac
4. Zalquaquine
5. Homer
6. Solon
7. Zabyon
8. Hippocrates
9. Pythagoras
10. Diogenes
11. Socrates
12. Plato
13. Aristotle
14. Alexander
15. Ptolemy
16. Assaron
17. Loginon
18. Onese
19. Marcedarge
20. Thescile
21. Gregory
22. Galen
23. The Last Philosophers
Select Bibliography
Thematic Index
forms: Prose
languages: English, Middle (1100–1500)
time periods: 15th Century
categories: Wisdom literature, Proverb, Legacy HTML, Alexander the Great, Matter of Rome/Troy, Nine Worthies

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