500 index
capital vices. See seven deadly
sins
capital virtues 452
cardinal sins. See seven deadly
sins
cardinal virtues 452
“Care-charmer Sleep, son of
the sable Night” (Daniel). See
Delia: Sonnet 45 (Daniel)
“Careful Complaint by the
Unfortunate Author, A”
(Whitney) 103
carol 104, 271
“The Agincourt Carol” 3–4,
104
ballad compared to 70, 104
burden in 95, 104
“The Cherry-Tree Carol”
104, 111–112
“Corpus Christi Carol” 128
“I Sing of a Maiden” 228
“Jolly Jankyn” 231–232
virelai compared to 450
carpe diem 104, 120–121, 144,
259, 284, 285, 344, 447
Casket Letters (Mary, Queen of
Scots) 104–106, 267
Casket Letters: Sonnet 1 (Mary,
Queen of Scots) 105
Casket Letters: Sonnet 2 (Mary,
Queen of Scots) 105
Casket Letters: Sonnet 3 (Mary,
Queen of Scots) 105–106
Casket Letters: Sonnet 4 (Mary,
Queen of Scots) 106
Cassandra (Barnfield) 133, 134
Cassian, John 355
Castell of Labour, The (Barclay) 73
Catharine Parr (queen of
England) 215
Catherine Howard (queen of
England) 215, 428
Catherine of Aragon (queen of
England) 128, 129, 159, 160,
214, 266, 282, 331
Catholicism
of Constable (Henry) 437
Dowriche (Anne
Edgecumbe) on 196–197
under Elizabeth I 160,
161, 175, 177, 389–390,
422–423
Henry VIII and 214–215,
266, 282
Heywood (John) on 70–71
of Mary I 70–71, 160, 266,
389, 476
of Mary (Queen of Scots)
146–148, 266
Southwell (Robert) on
95–96, 422–423
Spenser (Edmund) on 401,
402
Surrey (Henry Howard)
on 355
Catullus 88, 285
caudate rhyme. See tail rhyme
Caxton, William 102, 106–107,
115, 118, 343, 417, 474–475
ceorls 435
Certain Sonnets (Sidney) 107–
109, 335, 408
Certain Sonnets 1 (Sidney) 107,
109
Certain Sonnets 2 (Sidney) 107
Certain Sonnets 3 (Sidney) 107
Certain Sonnets 4 (Sidney)
107–108
Certain Sonnets 8 (Sidney) 108
Certain Sonnets 9 (Sidney) 108
Certain Sonnets 10 (Sidney) 108
Certain Sonnets 11 (Sidney) 108
Certain Sonnets 23 (Sidney) 107
Certain Sonnets 26 (Sidney) 107
Certain Sonnets 30 (Sidney) 108
Certain Sonnets 31: “Thou Blind
Man’s Mark” (Sidney) 69,
108–109
Certain Sonnets 32: “Leave me, O
Love” (Sidney) 69, 109
Certayne Eglogues (Barclay) 73–74
Cés Ulad 154–155
Chapman, George 217
characteristic lilt 260–261
Charlemagne (king of Franks)
93, 115, 348, 351, 427
Charles d’Orléans, Fortunes
Stabilnes 191
Charles IV (king of France) 221
Charles V (Holy Roman
Emperor and [as Charles I]
king of Spain) 478
charms 110
Chaucer, Geoffrey 110–111,
272, 273. See also English
Chaucerians; Scottish
Chaucerians
and “Alisoun” 6
ballades by 70
and Boccaccio (Giovanni)
87, 100, 111, 204, 219,
244, 309, 342, 441
and Boethius 89, 100, 101,
111, 126, 291, 441, 443
The Book of the Duchess 89–
92, 111, 113, 151, 219,
236, 239, 273, 302, 450
The Canterbury Tales. See
Canterbury Tales, The
(Chaucer)
and Charles d’Orléans 191
classical tradition and 117,
118
“The Complaint of Chaucer
to his Purse” 121–122,
238, 467
complaints by 121–122,
320, 441
and Dunbar (William) 152,
153, 239“Envoy to Bukton” 163,
164–165
“Envoy to Scogan” 163,
164, 165
“The Franklin’s Tale” 87,
100, 101, 121, 193–196,
416
General Prologue to the
Canterbury Tales. See
General Prologue to the
Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
and Gower (John) 163,
204, 210, 244, 261–262,
469
hagiography by 213
and Henryson (Robert)
216, 279
and Hoccleve (Thomas)
163, 219, 238
The House of Fame 111,
151, 199, 201, 219–220,
273, 450
hyperbole used by 221
and James I (king of
Scotland) 236
and Langland (William)
322
The Legend of Good Women
89, 111, 118, 151, 199,
201, 202, 229, 243–245,
255, 302, 353
on lovesickness 254–255
and Lydgate (John) 163,
187, 257
“The Man of Law’s Tale” 87,
100, 123, 249, 261–263,
334, 343
“The Miller’s Tale” 6, 87,
100, 173, 274–276, 316,
340, 482
“The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” 76,
101, 172, 279, 280, 284,
291–293, 316, 343
“The Pardoner’s Tale” 84,
87, 101, 170, 299–300,
305–307, 334, 352
The Parliament of Fowls 87,
111, 151, 236, 273, 303,
307–309, 343, 349
“The Prioress’s Tale” 101,
332–334, 343
“The Reeves Tale” 87, 100,
173, 274, 340–342
rhyme royal used by 111,
165, 308, 332, 343, 441,
443
and Skelton (John) 199
and Spenser (Edmund) 401
and Surrey (Henry Howard)
422
and The Tale of Gamelyn
431
“To Adam, His Scribe” 436
translations by 87, 90, 111,
126, 306, 317, 443Troilus and Criseyde. See
Troilus and Criseyde
(Chaucer)
“Truth” 443
and vernacular 111, 163
Virgin lyrics by 332–333,
450
“The Wife of Bath’s Prologue
and Tale” 6, 100, 123,
163, 195, 196, 300, 353,
460, 467–470
Chaucerian stanza. See rhyme
royal
Chaucer Society 99
“Chaucer’s Retraction” (Chaucer)
89, 102
“Cherry-lipped Adonis in his
snowy shape” (Barnfield). See
Cynthia, with Certain Sonnets:
Sonnet 17 (Barnfield)
“Cherry-Tree Carol, The” 104,
111–112
Chester, Robert 318, 319
Chestre, Thomas, Sir Launfal
240, 344, 412–414
“Chevrefoil” (Marie de France)
112–113, 243, 264
chiaroscuro 40
chiasmus 4, 41, 52, 55, 62,
113, 373
Child, Francis James 70, 72,
87, 271
Childhood of Jesus, The 111
chivalric oaths 77, 113–114
chivalry 114–116, 347
in Anglo-Norman poetry
115, 290
in Arthurian literature 29,
30, 31, 115, 189, 410,
411
Barbour (John) on 73
Barnfield (Richard) on 135
Chaucer (Geoffrey) on 100,
115, 442
in feudalism 189
Gawain-poet on 28, 31,
114, 189, 203, 410, 411
Henryson (Robert) on 216
in King Horn 235
Sidney (Sir Philip) on 116,
142
Spenser (Edmund) on 116,
178
Wace on 348
Chrétien de Troyes 28, 30
chronicles 73, 93–94, 95, 113,
116, 273, 316, 330, 386, 408.
See also Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Churchyard, Thomas 277, 287,
322, 331
Cicero 7, 165, 308, 309, 317,
440, 474
Civilization of the Renaissance
in Italy, The (Burckhardt)
156–157