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Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough and William Bruce, Robert, king of Scots 85, 86, 88, 90, 91 Cloudesley 6 Brut (character) 29, 30, 31 Agamben, Giorgio 40, 82 Brut, English Prose see English Prose Brut Ahab, King 108 Burgh, Hubert de 32, 37, 41 Alexander III, king of Scots 68 Bury, Richard de 111, 191 Alexander IV, Pope 34 Allen, Judson Boyce 17, 140 Cambridge, University Library MS G.I.1 66, Amory, Roger 3 67, 181, 182 Anderson, Benedict 23–4, 149, 152, 153 Cannon, Christopher 172 Annales Paulini 98 Canterbury Tales, The 156 Anonymous Short English Metrical Chronicle, Carpenter, D.A. 174 The 107 Cerquiglini, Bernard 79 apostrophe, as poetic technique 89, 151 Certeau, Michel de 12, 13, 16, 18 Arthurian romance 2, 52 Chaucer, Geoffrey 156, 157, 158 articuli super cartas 56, 109 Childs, Wendy 99 Ashe, Laura 172 chivalry 3, 134, 138 Aspin, Isabel 8–9, 92, 117, 118, 129, 131 Chronica Majora (Matthew Paris) 32 Auchinleck manuscript 119, 120, 124, 195 Chronicle of Lanercost 98, 99 Audley, Hugh 3 Clanchy, Michael 4, 20, 27, 32 Clare, Gilbert de 43 Balliol, John, king of Scots 56, 58, 80, 90 Clerk, the (in Canterbury Tales) 156 as ‘mimic man’ 68–9, 70 Coleman, Janet 11, 122, 125 as ‘Toom Tabard’ 71–2 confirmatio cartarum 56, 109 character and nationality of 67–8 Coss, Peter 14, 16 homage to Edward I of 63 Cotton MS Galba E.ix 141 Barre, Lucas de la 171 Cotton MS Julius A.v 69 Beaumont, Henry 136 Cotton MS Otho D.viii 47 Bek, Antony (bishop of Durham) 72, 73, 74, 75 Cotton MS Vespasian A.vi 49 Belinus and Brennius (legendary characters) cumeling, definition of 31 180 Bhabha, Homi 68–9 Danninger, Elisabeth 127 Bigod, Hugh 36, 48 Davies, R.R. 26, 55 Bloch, Marc 25 Davis, Kathleen 24 Boniface VIII, Pope 74, 75 Davy, Adam 14, 94–7, 112, 160 Boyle, Leonard 111, 112 ‘De Provisione Oxonie’ see Sayings of the Four ‘Bracton’ 38, 39, 177 Philosophers, The Brennius see Belinus Dean, James M. 127 Bridlington, Priory of 75 ‘Death of Edward I, The’ 91–4 broadsides 13 Despenser, Hugh, the Elder 3, 135 Brook, G.L. 116 Despenser, Hugh, the Younger 3, 85

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Digby MS 102, 127 death of Montfort at 47–8 documentary culture x, 4, 8, 9–10, 19 ‘evil counsel’ 6, 111, 113, 116, 120, 130, 132 execution 85 Edward I, king of England 4, 40, 50, 51, 55, 92 ‘Execution of Sir Simon Fraser, The’ 11, 13, accession of 50 86–91, 115, 124, 159 and dismemberment of traitors 48, 83, 85 apostrophe in 89 and Great Cause 55–6, 74–5 authorship of 188 and Scotland campaign of 1296 56 nationalism in 89, 90–1 and Scottish border 68 William Wallace in 86, 87 at battle of Lewes 35 compared to King Arthur 53 Ferster, Judith 14 compared to Richard I 50 Fieschi Letter 101, 107 ‘Elegy’ on death of (Anglo-Norman) 10, Foucault, Michel 82, 83 92–4 Fraser, Simon 86, 186 see also ‘Execution of Sir elegy on death of (Middle English) 91–4 Simon Fraser, The’ escapes Montfort 36, 47 as ‘mimic man’ 90 goes on crusade 50 execution of 87 in Song of Lewes 38 Freedman, Paul 7 last illness and death of 81, 86, 91 Froissart, Jean 81, 97, 134, 137 petitions and 4 unites Britain (in Langtoft’s chronicle) 62 Gaveston, Piers 3, 135 use of Arthurian legend of 53 Geary, Patrick 168 Edward II, king of England 2, 3, 40, 51, 81, General Eyre, the 5 99, 119 Geoffrey of Monmouth 29, 31, 52, 54 ‘afterlife’ of 101 Giancarlo, Matthew 10 and John of Powderham 98 Given-Wilson, Chris 198 and Thomas of Lancaster 98, 100 Gogmagog 31 and Treaty of Leake 100 Gospel of Matthew 3 coronation oath of 177 parable of labourers in vineyard in 3 cultivation of favourites by 3 Gower, John 156 final days of 101 Gransden, Antonia 1, 174 funeral of 101 Gray, Douglas 141 in Adam Davy’s dream vision 94–6 Gray, Thomas135, 155 in ‘Elegy’ to Edward I 92 Great Cause 55–6, 58, 66, 67, 68, 74, 79, 86 ‘Lament’ attributed to 15, 101–4 Green, Richard Firth 116, 118 use of papal bull in 1326 13, 14 Edward III, king of England 40, 106, 111 Haines, Roy Martin 99 and ‘coup’ of 1330 102, 105, 106 Harding, Alan 5 and crisis of 1340–1 109–10, 112, 133, 137 Harley MS 746 7 and William of Pagula 108 Harley MS 978 35 as boar of prophecy 146 Harley MS 2253 9, 11, 13, 35, 86, 91, 116–18, 129, campaigns of Hundred Years War of 109, 132, 142 129, 137, 145 Harriss, G.L. 26 creations of 1337 of 135 Harry Bailly (in Canterbury Tales) 156 in ‘Lament of Edward II’ 103 Hastings, Adrian 173 proclaims himself king of France 109 Havelok the Dane 95 Edward of Caernarfon see Edward II Henry III, king of England 19, 21–2, 27, 28, 40 Edwards, A.S.G. 202 at battle of Evesham 47 Eleanor, Queen 51 at battle of Lewes 35 ‘Elegy on the Death of Edward I’ 10 death of 50 Embree, Dan, and Elizabeth Urquhart 120, in Song of Lewes 38 122, 123 promotion of foreigners by 32 Emerson, O.F. 96 Henry of Huntingdon 29 English Prose Brut 11, 55, 98, 181, 187 Historia Anglorum see Henry of Huntingdon escrowez see broadsides Historia Regum Britannie see Geoffrey of Evesham, battle of 29, 47 Monmouth

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Hoccleve, Thomas 156, 158 ‘political songs’ in 57, 58–62, 63–7, 70–2, homo sacer 82 80 Huizinga, Johan 25 authorship of 65 Hundred Years War 133, 136, 137 purpose of 79 see also Edward III, campaigns of prophecy of Merlin in 62–3 Hundred Years War of Robert Bruce in 85 role of Antony Bek in 72, 73, 74, 76, 78 Ingham, Patricia Clare 173 role of ‘Scaffeld’ (Sheffield, John de) in 72, Isabella, Queen 13, 14, 81, 101, 105, 106 73, 184 siege of Dunbar castle in 61–2 James, Thomas Beaumont, and John Simons Lavezzo, Kathy 26 141, 143 Legge, M. Dominica 64, 72, 76 Jean le Bel 139 Lerer, Seth 159 John, king of England 32 Lewes, battle of 35 John of Powderham 98–100 Henry III at 35 Justice, Steven 5, 7, 13, 17, 128 Lord Edward at 35 in Melrose Chronicle 36 Kalevala, 21 Richard of Cornwall at 36–7 Kane, George 17–18, 125 literacy 4, 13 on ‘Song of the Husbandman’ 127, 128 Louis IX, king of France 34 Kantorowicz, Ernst 25, 81, 82, 101 Lydgate, John 156, 158 Keeney, Barnaby C. 25 Kendrick, Laura 119, 194 macaronic poetry 8–9 Kennedy, Edward Donald 174 Machan, Tim William, 4, 21–2, 46, 152, 153 ‘king-and-subject’ genre 113 Macherey, Pierre 139 ‘King and the Barker, The’ 113 Maddicott, J.R. 1, 5, 16, 18, 35, 109, 110, 129, 134 ‘King Edward and the Shepherd’ 113–15, 125 Magna Carta 3, 39, 94 ‘King and the Hermit, The’ 113, 114 Maitland, Frederic 49 ‘King Henry and the Miller of Mannyng, Robert 23, 55, 158, 179 Mansfield’ 113 Handlyng Synne 158 king’s two bodies, doctrine of 6, 81, 82 Mauny, Walter 154 Kingsford, C.L. 38 McKisack, May 13, 110 Knight, Stephen 16–17, 123, 125 Melrose Chronicle 36 Knighton, Henry 109 Methven, battle of 86 Kohn, Hans 24, 25 Meyer-Lee, Robert 160 Minot, Laurence 11, 25, 116, 159 La3amon 52–3 and battle of Halidon Hill 144 ‘Lament of Edward II, The’ 15, 101–4 and battle of Neville’s Cross 147 ‘Lament for Simon de Montfort’ 49 and battle of Sluys 146 Lancaster, Thomas, earl of 98, 99, 100 and David Bruce, king of Scots 147, 150 and ‘Office for St Thomas of Lancaster’ and Edward III 149, 150 100–1 and ideology 140 and Treaty of Leake 100 and Mauny, Walter 154 cult after death of 100–1 and nationalism 142, 148, 149, 152, 154 execution of 85, 100 and Philip VI, king of France, 138, 145, 146, rebellion of 100 148, 150 Langland, William 14–15, 158 and prophecies of Merlin 146, 147 Langtoft, Pierre de, chronicle of 13, 53, 54–5, and siege of Tournai 146 56–7, 63, 70, 78, 83 apostrophe, use of 151 and Edward I 67, 76–8 as court poet 141 and Great Cause 58 critical reception of 138 and Scotland campaign of 1296 58–62 poems of 137–48 Balliol in 58 social position of 137, 199 composition and authorship of 53, 72–73, 75, Mise of Amiens 3, 34, 43 76, 78–79 Mise of Lewes 3 execution of Wallace in 66, 80, 83–4 Montagu, William 3, 105

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Montfort, Simon de 27, 41 rebels of 1381 7 and Mise of Amiens 35 Reynolds, Susan 25 comparison with Becket 49 Richard of Cornwall 33, 35 cult after death of 49, 82 capture at Lewes 36–7 death of 29, 47, 82, 178 Richard the Redeless 156–7 in ‘Song Against the King of Almaigne’ 36 Riewoldt, N. 5 in Song of Lewes 38, 44 Rigby, S.H. 198 in ‘Song Upon the Divisions Among the Rishanger, William 43 Barons’ 43 Ritson, Joseph 159 ‘Lament for Simon de Montfort’ 49 Robbins, R. H. 17, 18, 64, 137 marriage of 33, 34 Robert of Fulham, 27 nationality of 37, 50, 51, 57, 176 Robert of Gloucester, 22–3, 29, 44, 126, 158 rule over England of 47 chronicle of 29–32, 53, 54–5 Mortimer, Roger 11, 12, 13, 81, 85, 101, 104–5, King Arthur in 53–4 106, 110, 135 on battle of Evesham 48 Multon, Thomas de, 87, 88, 89, 187, 188 on death of Montfort 48, 82 on Englishness 34 nationalism 19, 20–7, 42–3, 44–5, 89, 124, 133, on reign of Henry III 33–4 134 Robin Hood and the Monk 6 Second World War and 25 Roche, T. W. E. 176 Nederman, Cary 40, 110, 112 Roger of Wendover 32 Newhauser, Richard 126, 129 Royer, Katherine 48, 83

‘Oﬃce for St Thomas of Lancaster’ 100–1 Salter, Elisabeth 119 ‘On the Corruption of Public Manners’ 170 Sayings of the Four Philosophers, The 118 ‘On the Deposition of Balliol’ 69 Scarry, Elaine 90 ‘On the Evil Times of Edward II’ see Simonie, Scase, Wendy 10, 113, 117, 127, 131 The Scattergood, V. J. 12, 35, 88, 90, 96 ‘On the King’s Breaking His Conﬁrmation of schedulae see broadsides Magna Charta’ 8, 118–19, 120, 124 Shafer, Boyd C. 24 nationhood in 124 Simonie, The 6, 11, 119–24, 134, 158 Ordinances (1311) 3, 109, 118 form of 120–2 Ormrod, W. M. 6, 136, 142 Simpson, James 160 Osberg, Richard H. 142, 159 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 11, 158, 159 ‘Outlaw’s Song of Trailbaston, The’ 9, 12, 13, Sir Launfal 2 18, 102, 116–18, 124 Sir Perceval of Galles 114 Owst, G. R. 16, 122 Sisam, Kenneth 138 ‘Six Kings’, prophecy of 96, 146 Paris, Matthew 32, 33, 37, 44, 175 Smith, Anthony D. 23 and Richard of Cornwall 175 ‘Song Against the King of Almaigne’ 35–6, petitions 4–5, 19 45–6, 48, 50 in later fourteenth century 168 Montfort in 36 ‘Plange plorans’ see ‘Song Upon the Divisions ‘Song Against the King’s Taxes’ 129, 130–1, 134 Among the Barons’ authorship of 132 Policraticus 38, 177 Song of Lewes, The 35, 37–43 Post, Gaines 25 attack on personal rule in 41 Powicke, Sir Maurice 26, 47, 50 ‘Bracton’ in 38, 39, 177 Prestwich, Michael 51, 76, 106, 136 communitas regni in 41–2 Proclamation to the people of Henry III in 38 Huntingdonshire 19–22 Lord Edward in 38, 39 Provisions of Oxford 3, 8, 19, 20, 27, Montfort in 38 32, 34 nationhood and Englishness in 42–3, 44–5 pseudobalade 11 Policraticus in 38, 177 ‘Purloined Letter, The’ (Poe) 15 ‘Song of the Husbandman’ 13, 15–16, 125–9, 131, purveyance 109, 112, 117, 133, 193 133, 144

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date of 129 Turville-Petre, Thorlac 20, 25, 30, 65, 66, 93, ‘Song of the Peace with England’ 35 120, 123, 138 ‘Song on the Scottish Wars’ 69 ‘Song Upon the Divisions Among the Barons’ Valente, Claire 32, 41, 47, 48, 103, 104, 105, 106 43–4 verlan 15 Montfort in 43 Vita Edwardi Secundi 99 Speculum Regis Edwardi III 108, 109, 110–13 ‘Vulneratur Karitas’ 7, 8, 12 Sperber, Hilmar 36 Spitzer, Leo 17, 160 Wace 52 Statute of Marlborough 7 Wallace, David 138 Statute of Stamford 109 Wallace, William 83, 86, 87 Steiner, Emily 9–10 execution of 87 Stone, Gregory, 140 poem on execution of in Langtoft’s chronicle Stones, Lionel 64 66, 80, 83–4 and Grant Simpson 74 Warenne, Earl 36, 45 Stratford, John 109, 131, 132 Watson, Nicholas 158 Strathbogie, John of, earl of Atholl 85, Wilde, Fergus 63, 73, 74, 79 90, 188 Wilde, Geert de 11, 94 Strohm, Paul 99, 139 William of Pagula 108, 111, 112, 113, 115, 130, 133 Summerﬁeld, Thea 57, 65, 66, 73, 76, 78, 79 and Edward III 108, 111 hints at rebellion 111, 112 Tale of Sir Gareth (Malory) 2 Speculum Regis Edwardi III of 108, 110–13 taxation 109, 110, 129 Wilson, R. M. 64 Thiolier, Jean Claude 64, 72–3, 75, 76, 78–79 Wright, Thomas 35, 57, 65, 79, 113, 114, 119, Thorpe, Lewis 31 127, 159 trailbaston 117 see also ‘Outlaw’s Song of Wyatt, Thomas 159 Trailbaston, The’ treason 48 Young, Robert 69 Treaty of Leake 100 Ywain and Gawain 2 Treaty of Northampton 12 Treaty of Paris 28, 51 Zumthor, Paul 67