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———. The Bible in Middle English Literature. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1984. Frend, W. H. C. Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church: A Study of a Conflict from the Maccabees to Donatus. Oxford: Blackwell, 1965.

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———. In Heroic Women from the Old Testament in Middle English Verse: The Storie of Asneth, The Pistel of Swete Susan, The Story of Jephthah’s Daughter, The Story of Judith. Ed. Russell A. Peck. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1991. [Includes the Prologue (stanzas 1–3), The Story of Jephthah and His Daughter (stanzas 292–99), and The Story of Judith (stanzas 1414–79), pp. 109–53.]

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Minnis, A. J. Chaucer and Pagan Antiquity. Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1982.

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———. “Medium and Message: Henry of Ghent on Scriptural Style.” In Literature and Religion in the Later Middle Ages: Philological Studies in Honor of Siegfried Wenzel. Ed. Richard G. New­hauser and John A. Alford. Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1995. Pp. 209–35.

Mitchell, Bruce, and Fred C. Robinson. A Guide to Old English. Fifth ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.

Morey, James Henry. “‘Coram Laycis’: Spreading the Word in Early Middle English.” Ph.D. dis­sertation, Cornell University, 1990. DAI 51.04A (1990): 1224.

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———. Book and Verse: A Guide to Middle English Biblical Literature. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

Morin, Germain, ed. Anecdota maredsolana. 5 vols. Maredsous, 1893–1903.

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Muir, Lynette R. The Biblical Drama of Medieval Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Mum and the Sothsegger. In Richard the Redeless and Mum and the Sothsegger. Ed. James M. Dean. Kala­mazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2000. Pp. 75–169.

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Mustanoja, Tauno F. Review of A Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament, vols. 2 and 3, ed. Urban Ohlander. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 62 (1961), 234–36.

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Northern Passion: Four Parallel Texts and the French Original, with Specimens of Additional Manuscripts. Ed. Frances A. Foster. 2 vols. EETS o.s. 145, 147. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., 1913–16. Rpt. New York: Kraus Reprint, 1971.

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