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© in This Web Service Cambridge University Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-11137-9 - Writing to the King: Nation, Kingship, and Literature in England, 1250-1350 David Matthews Index More information Index 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, 85 217 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-11137-9 - Writing to the King: Nation, Kingship, and Literature in England, 1250-1350 David Matthews Index More information 218 Index 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, Thomas 135, 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 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-11137-9 - Writing to the King: Nation, Kingship, and Literature in England, 1250-1350 David Matthews Index More information Index 219 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 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-11137-9 - Writing to the King: Nation, Kingship, and Literature in England, 1250-1350 David Matthews Index More information 220 Index 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.
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