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abjurations 230 broadsides and bill-casting 184–185, 186 Adorno, Theodor 61 see also “1381 Revolt” Alford, John 11, 123 Brownlee, Kevin 46 allegory of the book 18, 71 see also “material bureaucracy, English see also “documents” textuality” growth of 5, 53–57 Allen, Judson Boyce 67, 123 languages of 54–55, 193, 229–231 Ambrose, saint 104, 128 Burgess, Clive 153 Ancrene Wisse 115–118 Burrow,J.A.59 Anglo-Norman, and law French 54 Anselm of Canterbury, saint, Cur Deus homo Cade, John 184 100–101 Camargo, Martin 53, 55, 57, 58 Archives Camille, Michael 18 collecting and storage 4, 32, 36–38, 73, 96, Carruthers, Mary 137 174, 188–189, 209–210, 236, 240–242 censorship theories of 93–94, 120, 182 and fifteenth-century legislation 196, Ars dictaminis, and autobiography 58, 59–60; 228 dictamen and trial records 229; as literary and the Long Charter 197–198, 218–228 exercise 56–58 and revisions to Piers Plowman 211–217 Arundel, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury certificates 236–237 196, 233–239 chancery 3, 5, 21, 56 Augustine of Hippo, saint, Ennarrationes in Charles d’Orleans, Fortunes Stabilnes 31, 60 Psalmos 100, 121–139 charms see “talismans and charms” influence on medieval writers: Fasciculus Charter of the Abbey of the Holy Ghost 68, morum 123; William Langland 121–139; 97–99, 204 John Lydgate 123; Francis Petrarch 123; Charters of Christ 10–11, 50–53, 159–161 Richard Rolle 123; Wycliffite Psalter 123 illustrations of 75–90, 159–161, 199–200 texts: Baldwin, Anna 118 Carta dei 52, 66, 71–72, 74, 90, 205 Baker, Denise 115 Carta domini nostri Iesu Christ 51 Barr, Helen 177, 179 Carta libera 52, 87 Baxter, Margery 12, 230–233 “Charter of Heaven” (Pore Caitif ) 52, 70, Bedos-Rezak, Brigitte 13 71, 162–163, 195, 199, 205, 206, 207–210 Black Death 5 Long Charter 50, 65, 69–70, 76–77, 84, Boffey, Julia 59, 152 112, 113, 130, 142, 194–200, 207, Book of Vice and Virtues 6 218–228 Boureau, Alain 66–67 Short Charter 52, 66, 74, 77, 80, 195, 199 Bozon, Nicholas 103 charters of feoffment 50, 83, 97 Bracton, Henry de 5, 21 charters of manumission 8, 24, 210 De legibus et consuitudinibus Angliae 10, 20, charters of pardon 7–8, 32–35, 83 21–28, 47, 65, 72, 122, 140 “charter of salvation” (Margery Baxter’s) brevity 3–4 231–233

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Chaucer, Geoffrey 20, 55 Durandus of Mende 138 works: Dyer, Christopher 7 “ABC” hymn 29, 48–49 Book of the Duchess 30 Epistola Luciferi 103 Pardoner’s Prologue 164–165 Epistola Sathanae ad clericos 103 Troilus and Criseide 60 Eucharist, sacrament of 207, 225; fracture of chirographs 50, 102, 140–142, 198, 207, 226 see the host 50, 138, 198, 207, 226 also “indentures of service and Excestr, John 229–231 maintenance,” “chirographum decreti” and “chirographum dei” Faith, Rosamund 7, 172 chirographum decreti 53, 100–105, 134–135 Fasciculi zizanorum 203 chirographum dei 104–105, 127–132, 134–135 Fasciculus morum 50–52, 62–64, 74, 105, 112, historical writing, medieval 4, 94, 95–96 132, 133–135, 159 citationality 3–4 Ferster, Judith 184 Clanchy, Michael 4, 22, 54, 172 forgery 3, 6, 8, 48, 141 Coleman, Joyce 13, 220 formularies 56–57, 58 commissions 36–40, 114–115, 222 Foucault, Michel 93–94 Confirmation of the Provisions of Oxford Fowler, Elizabeth 44 54, 73 Franciscan spirituality 18, 50–52, 68 contract, breach of 5–6; and memory Frank, Robert Worth, Jr. 138 69–70 Friar Grimestone’s Commonplace Book Copeland, Rita 234–235 61–62 counsel 177–189 Fulbert of Chartres 102 Crane, Susan 193 Creed, Apostles 235 Galloway, Andrew 95 Creed, Athanasian 111–114, 124, 126, 128, 131, genre see also “romance,” “satire” and 132, 139, 214 “hagiography” Curtius, Ernst 18 document as a “genre of social action” 173–177 Deguileville, Guillaume de 10, 20, 29–46 and material textuality 19–20 illustrations of works 33, 36–38, 43, 79, relationship between charters and lyrics 159–161 75–90 reception of works 29–31, 48–49 Gesta Romanorum 102 works: Glossa ordinaria 101 Pèlerinage de la vie humaine: Reason’s Gower John, Cronica tripertita 6; Vox commission 35–46, 222; Charity’s clamantis 175 testament 49, 159, 221; Tribulation’s Grady, Frank 184 commission 114–115 Green, Richard Firth 5–6, 186–187, 193 Pèlerinage de l’ameˆ : Mercy’s charter of “Grete Sentence of Curs Expouned” 210–211 pardon 32–35, 111, 112, 125, 221 Derrida, Jacques 120 Hagen, Susan 31 devil’s record 32–33, 100–103, 106, 183 hagiography 242–244 Dinshaw, Carolyn 165 Hanna, Ralph III 126, 233 diplomacy 2 Herebert, William 18 “documentary poetics” 10, 29, 47–48, 245 Hereford Mappamundi 1–3 documents see also “legal formulas” and Hoccleve, Thomas 55, 59, 196 “bureaucracy, English” works: definition of 3–4, 19–20 Pilgrimage of the Soul 30 performance of 23, 26–28, 39–43, 68, Regement of Princes 190 148–149, 157–158, 221–223 Holsinger, Bruce 193 production of 19–20, 79, 133, 135, 147, 157–158, 229–233 indentures of service and maintenance 6, 141 proliferation of 4–5, 95, 193 indulgences, papal or ecclesiastical 77–79, 110, Domesday Book 8–9, 210 127, 132–133, 134, 155, 157–158, 164, dominion 21, 22, 28, 42–44 199–200, 202, 212–215 Donaldson, E. Talbot 217 indulgentia vs. venia (conditional vs. absolute Donation of Constantine 208, 209 pardon) 125, 126–127, 212 264

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Inns of Court 21 letters patent 33, 72–74, 115–118, 155, 158–163, instrumentality 3–4 183, 235 Lewis, C. S. 31 Jack Upland 196, 201 Lindenbaum, Sheila 186–187 Jacobus de Voragine 101 literacy and illiteracy 7–8, 39–43, 111, 145–153, Jager, Eric 18 157, 171, 172, 187, 214 Jameson, Fredric 90 liturgy 62–67, 138, 148, 227 John of Garland 56 livery of seisin 4–5, 22, 47, 50, 83 Justice, Steven 7, 56, 170, 172–173, 176, 177, Lollardy 12–13 193, 231 on the antiquity and authority of scripture 202–203, 208–209, 219, 232–233, 237–238 Keen, Jill Averil 115, 163 iconoclasm and anti-materialism 199, 203, Kempe, Margery, The Book of Margery Kempe 231, 238 13, 180, 240–246 against indulgences and letters of fraternity Ker, Neil 123 201–210 Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn 56, 155, 157 polemic and rhetoric 194–228, 229–239 “key text” 93–94, 109 on predestination 202, 206, 210 Knighton, Henry 7, 8, 171 and schools 198 and trials 229–239 LaCapra, Dominick 234 Love, Nicholas 196 Langland, William 56 Lydgate, John, Pilgrimage of the Life of Man Piers Plowman 11–12, 20, 30, 93–142, 30, 36–41, 45, 48–49, 222 143–190, 222–223; illustrations of 155; lyric revisions to 212–217 and address 61–90, 227 A-text: 108, 150, 155 and metaphor 70–75, 85–87 B-text: Hawkyn’s quittance 106–107, 110, 161, 214–217; Imaginatif 148–149, Magna Carta 54, 157, 203, 211 167–168, 180–182; Lewte 165–167; Mede’s mainprises 117 marriage charter 107, 110, 154; Moses’s material textuality maundement 115–120, 150–152, 161–163, and anti-materialism 203, 214 223; Peace’s patent 115–120, 223; Piers’s and genre 18–20, 75–90 testament 151–153; Trajan 146–148; and legal will 24 Truth’s Pardon 95, 109–115, 125–127, and maps 2 135–142, 154–155, 181, 205, 212–214, 223 and personiﬁcation allegory 33–35 C-text: 181–182 as public (“obtrusive”) writing 153, 185–189 Latinity as textual gloss 127, 162 and administration 54, 193, 230 Matheson, Lister 56 and authority 52, 224 Merke, Thomas 56 Latin tags 65–66, 107, 154 Middleton, Anne 42, 98, 140, 144, 170, 177, Lawton, David 137, 212 181 Lay Folks’ Catechism 204–206, 207, 213 Mirk, John 105 Le roman de la rose 30–31, 46, 221 Mum and the Sothsegger 9, 11–12, 177–189 legal agency 21, 25–26 “bag of books” episode 182–189 legal ﬁctions “safe-conduct” episode 179–182 of absence 26–28, 34–35, 72, 122 of person 34–46, 174–175 Norwich heresy trials 229–233 of publicness or accessibility 157–163, 176, Novatian 104 204 legal formulas 23–26, 51, 52, 53, 68, 72–74, “obtrusive” vs. “intrusive” writing 11, 144, 87–90, 97, 107, 134, 154, 158, 171, 176, 145, 146, 152–153, 154–155, 169–170, 204, 227, 229–231, 234–235, 237 see also 185–189 “bureaucracy, English,” “documents,” Oldcastle, Sir John 244–245 “Latinity” and “literacy and illiteracy” Oxford debate on bible translation 223–224, legal will 22–28, 65–66 227–228 letters and briefs 60–61, 244–245 letters close 115, 158 Palmer, Robert 5 letters of fraternity 201–210 pardons see “indulgences” 265

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parliament, languages of 54; parliamentary satire, documents as social satire 48, 103;asa commons 178, 188 moral quandary 165–170, 178–189 patents see “letters patent” Scase, Wendy 145, 170, 184, 186–187 Pecham, John 103 scriveners 55, 57 personification allegory 31–46 seals 1–2, 25, 34, 74–75, 77, 84–85, 87–90, 96, Piers Plowman see “Langland, William” 110, 117–118, 134, 158, 159–163, 207, 238 “Piers Plowman Tradition” 177 Simpson, James 121, 163, 168, 178 Privy Seal 5, 55 Sixteen Points of Lollard Belief 201 psalms, commentaries 123, 128 see also Spearing, A. C. 60 “Augustine of Hippo, saint, Stock, Brian 13, 93, 194 (see also “key text” and Ennarrationes in Psalmos” “textual community”) public writing 153, 185–189 see also “ ‘obtrusive’ Strohm, Paul 197 vs. ‘intrusive’ writing” talismans and charms 74, 77, 85, 243–244 quittances 49, 106, 215–217 testaments 49, 151–153 “textual community” 194, 195, 204, 206, 210, Rabanus Maurus 100 219, 232–233 see also “Lollardy, on the relics 4, 9, 73 antiquity and authority of scripture” Richard of Bury 58 1381 Revolt 7–8 works: letters of John Ball 11–12, 171–177, 186, 193, Philobiblon 18, 59–60 209 Liber epistolaris 58 Thorpe, William, Testimony 12, 233–239 romance 2; and documentary practice 96–99, trial records 12–13, 229–239 115–120 Turner, Victor 173–177 Russell, J. Steven 31 Rutebeuf, Le miracle de Théophile 102–103, Usk, Thomas, “Appeal” 95 107–109, 221 Walsingham, Thomas 8, 96, 171 safe-conducts and letters of credence 2, Watson, Nicholas 193, 209, 223–224 179–180, 181, 240, 243–244 writs 27, 83 Salter, Elizabeth 116 Wyclif, John see “Lollardy” Sampson, Thomas 55, 57 Modus dictandi 58 York Play of the Crucifixion 62

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