index 499Augustine of Hippo 2, 8, 170,
175, 207, 324
aureation 69, 216, 258, 451
ayre 69, 88–89, 149, 285
B
Bakhtin, Mikhail 445
“Balade de Bon Conseyl”
(Chaucer). See “Truth”
(Chaucer)
Ball, John 320, 330
ballad (folk ballads) 70. See
also Middle English lyrics and
ballads
ballade 70, 450
“Ballad on the Marriage of Philip
and Mary, A” (Heywood)
70–71
ballad royal 70, 343
ballad stanza 71, 335
ballad supreme 70
ballad theory 80
“Ballad Which Askew Made and
Sang When in Newgate, A”
(Askew) 71–72
“Barbara Allen” 70, 72
Barbour, John 73
The Bruce 73, 93–94, 116,
345, 455
Barclay, Alexander 73–74,
318, 352
Barnfield, Richard 74–75,
450
Cynthia, with Certain Sonnets
74, 133–137
“Battle of Argoed Llwyfain, The”
(Taliesin) 75, 432
Battle of Brunanburh, The 75
Battle of Maldon, The 75–76,
114, 121, 295, 457
battle poesy 75–76
beast fable 76–77, 172, 273
by Chaucer (Geoffrey) 76,
100, 101, 292
by Henryson (Robert) 76,
278–282
by Heywood (John) 71
Middle English 273
in Reynard literature 343
by Shakespeare (William)
319
“Because I breathe not love
to everyone” (Sidney). See
Astrophil and Stella: Sonnet 54
(Sidney)
“Because I oft, in dark
abstracted guide” (Sidney).
See Astrophil and Stella: Sonnet
27 (Sidney)
Bede, Venerable 26, 95, 97,
243, 297
“begging poem” 238
beheading game 77, 133
bellatores 435
Beowulf 77–80
as accentual verse 1
chiasmus used in 113
comitatus in 121
and The Dream of the Rood
150
as epic 26, 166, 299
feudalism in 290
and Judith 233
kenning used in 234
lament in 79, 239
ofermod in 78, 79, 295
and “The Ruin” 349
runes used in 198
scop in 78, 467
“The Wanderer” 457
wergild in 77, 461
“Beowulf: The Monsters and the
Critics” (Tolkien) 79
Beowulf and the Beowulf
Manuscript (Kiernan) 79
Beowulf manuscript. See Cotton
Vitellius A.xv
Beowulf-poet 80
Bevis of Hampton 81, 346
“Be wise as thou art cruel, do
not press” (Shakespeare). See
Shakespeare’s sonnets: Sonnet
140
Bible translations 8, 157,
249, 449. See also Psalm
translations
biblical allusions 81, 170, 181,
193, 275, 296, 328, 382, 436,
451, 466, 469
“Birth of Robin Hood, The”
81–82
“Bisclavret” (Marie de France)
82–83, 264
black bile 191, 254
Black Death 83–84, 87, 89,
221, 248, 305, 316, 322,
325–326, 329, 334, 449
“Blame Not My Lute” (Wyatt)
84–85
blank verse 85, 192, 222, 265,
429, 450
blazon 85
by Barnfield (Richard) 134,
137
by Gwerful Mechain 461
by Marlowe (Christopher)
218
by Raleigh (Sir Walter) 287
by Shakespeare (William)
85, 339, 386
by Sidney (Sir Philip) 36,
64, 85, 108
by Skelton (John) 237
in Skeltonics 418
in sonnets 85, 420, 421
by Spenser (Edmund) 15,
19, 85
by Surrey (Henry Howard)
479Blind Hary 85–86
The Wallace 73, 86,
454–456
blood 191
blood libel saints 333
Blount, Edward 217
“Bludy Serk, The” (Henryson)
86
bob-and-wheel 86, 409
Boccaccio, Giovanni 86–87
and Boethius 126
and Chaucer (Geoffrey) 87,
100, 111, 204, 219, 244,
309, 342, 441
frame narrative used by 193
and Henryson (Robert) 87,
433
and Lydgate (John) 186,
258
and A Mirror for Magistrates
277
and Petrarch 317
and Skelton (John) 202
body-and-soul dialogue
398–399
Boethius 87
and Chaucer (Geoffrey) 89,
100, 101, 111, 126, 291
The Consolation of Philosophy.
See Consolation of
Philosophy, The (Boethius)
and Gascoigne (George)
256
and “The Old Woman of
Beare” 300
and “The Wanderer” 457
and Wyatt (Sir Thomas)
331
“Bonnie George Campbell”
87–88, 271
“Bonny Barbara Allan.” See
“Barbara Allen”
“Bonny Earl of Murray, The”
70, 88
Booke of Ayres, A (Campion)
88–89, 99, 222, 285, 463
Book of Taliesin, The 30, 75,
432, 447, 458
Book of the Duchess, The
(Chaucer) 89–92, 111, 113,
151, 219, 236, 239, 273,
302, 450
Booth, Stephen 365, 374, 375
border ballads 92, 445
Bothwell, James Hepburn, earl
of 104, 105, 106, 146, 266
Boyle, Elizabeth 11, 12, 15, 18,
21, 22, 167, 421, 424
Brant, Sebastian 318
Breton lai. See lay
Bright, Timothy 444
“Bring us in Good Ale” 92, 272
Brooke, baron of. See Greville,
Sir FulkeBruce, The (Barbour) 73, 93–94,
116, 345, 455
Brussels Cross 94–95, 150
Brut, The (Layamon) 10, 95,
243
Brut, Walter 320
bubonic plague 83–84
Burckhardt, Jacob 156–157
burden 86, 95
“Burning Babe, The” (Southwell)
95–96, 423
Burrow, J. A. 325
Bury, Richard de 341
“But be contented; when that
fell arrest” (Shakespeare).
See Shakespeare’s sonnets:
Sonnet 74
Byrd, William 187
Byrthnoth 75–76, 295c
Cædmon 26, 27, 80, 97
“Cædmon’s Hymn” (Cædmon)
26, 27, 97
Caelica (Greville) 97–98, 211
caesura 9, 26, 34, 98, 128, 213,
285, 314, 355, 431, 464
Campion, Thomas 98–99,
103, 130
A Booke of Ayres 88–89,
99, 285
“I Care Not for These
Ladies” 88, 222–223
kyrielle by 237
“My Sweetest Lesbia” 88,
285–286
on Spanish Armada 423
translations by 88, 285
“When to Her Lute Corinna
Sings” 88, 463
“Canons Yeoman’s Prologue,
The” (Chaucer) 101
Canterbury Tales, The (Chaucer)
89, 99–103, 290. See also
General Prologue to the
Canterbury Tales (Chaucer);
specific tales
and “Alisoun” 6
Boccaccio (Giovanni) and
87, 100
as estates satire 435
fabliau in 100, 101, 273
as frame narrative 99, 100,
111, 193
and Henryson (Robert) 279
lays in 100, 101, 243
manuscripts of 102
printer of 102, 106–107,
334
cantiga 450
canto 103
canzone 103, 127
Canzoniere (Petrarch) 144, 255,
317, 422