Abbeys,158ff.A. B. C.,275.Abel,475.Abélard,170,461.Abernun, P. d',120.Abraham and Isaac, a play,466.Abstractions, personified,218,331,490.Achilles,129,310.Acta Sanctorum,470.Actors,446ff.,467ff.Adam, in Anglo-Saxon Bible,72, and Eve,359;381, a mystery,468ff.,474ff.Adam, "scriveyn,"339.Addison,296.Adgar,123.Adrian IV., pope,111,188.Ælfric,45,88ff.,205,449.Aelred of Rievaulx,154,193,213,445ff.Æneas the Trojan,114,129,295,see"Enéas."Æsop,508.Æthelberht,61.Æthelred,79.Æthelstan,28,46,93.Æthelwold,88.Æthelwulf,63.Aetius,26.Agricola,20.Ailill,13.Aïmer,147.Aix, Albert d',409.Alaric,26.Albin, St.,220.Alchemist, in Chaucer,325,327.Alcuin,65ff.,81,82.Aldhelm,66, his riddles,72."Alemanni,"25.Alexander, romances on,127ff.;222.Alexander, bishop of Lincoln,162.Alfred the Great,27,28,61,63, life and works,79ff.;243.Aliénor of Aquitaine,112.Aliénor of Provence,112,454.Allegories, inRoman de la Rose,276ff.Allen, Grant, on Germanic names,31, on Norman names,244.Alliteration, in Anglo-Saxon and in French,37ff., in Aldhelm,66, after the Conquest,205ff.;245, Chaucer's opinion about,339;348,351, in Langland,401.Ambrose, companion of Richard Cœur-de-Lion,121.America, discovered,491.Amis and Amile,142,229.Ammianus Marcellinus,32,114.Anatomy of Abuses,346.Anchoresses,153,211ff.Ancren Riwle,211ff.,218,247.Anderida,30.Andreas,39,69,73ff.AnelidaseeComplaint.Angevin England, literature of, Bk. ii. c. ii., iii., iv.,116ff.; survives in Gower,364.Angle, Sir Guichard d',284.Angles,22,25,27,84."Angli,"20.Anglo-Saxons, their name,28, vocabulary,29, national poetry, Bk. i. c. iii.,36ff., Mss. and art of,45,63,65, despondency of,47ff.,56ff., their idea of death,57ff., their Christian literature, Bk. i. c. iv.,60ff., their internal divisions,93, how transformed by Norman conquest,203ff.,250, mind and genius of,300,316,344,402, Chaucer and the,338ff.Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,46,47,62,86ff., on Hastings,100,103, on William,105ff.Anne of Bohemia,265,454ff.Annebaut, R. d',120.Anselm, St.,165,193,198.Antenor, the Trojan,113.Antigoneof Sophocles,34.Antiocheis,176.Antoninus Pius,19,20.Apelles,286,294.Apollinia, life of St., and drama on,470ff.Apollonius of Tyre, in A.S.,79.Appius and Virginia,325,330.Aquinas, St. Thomas,165.Arabian Nights,496.Arbois de Jubainville, d', on Celts,5ff.Arc, Joan of,256,354,459.Architecture, of the Anglo-Saxons,63, Norman,107, perpendicular,261, with "pinnacles," 297;353, of Westminster Hall,414.Argentille,223.Argyropoulos,523.Ariosto,17,97.Aristotle,120,165,173,194,380."Armachanus,"seeFitzralph.Armenia,201.Armorica,33."Army," the Danish,80.Arnold, T., onBeowulf,48, on Wyclif,432.Art: Henry III.'s style,200,262, gold and silver tablets, cups, &c.,258ff., pictures,258,262, miniatures,259, tapestries,262, embroidery,264, statue from the nude,265, painted walls and stained glass,280, in Italy,285ff., antique,287ff., portrait of Chaucer,341,503, favoured by Plantagenets,353ff., tomb of Gower,365, Malvern Church,376, picture by Fouquet,470ff., fresco at Stratford-on-Avon,494;seeArchitecture, Miniatures.Arthur, King, early songs on,32;112, 113,127; cycle of,131ff.;177, in Layamon,220ff.;222,226,348ff.Ass, feast of the,452.Asser,81,82.Astrée,139.Astrolabe,337,341,411.Attila,26,44,48.Aucassin,227,404,503.Augier, of St. Frideswide's,123.Augustine, comes to England,60ff.Augustus, the emperor,129,481,486.Aungerville, Sir R.,166.Ausonius,33.Avebury, circles at,4.Avesbury, Robert of,174,201.Avignon,158,391,420.Avit, St., bishop of Vienna,75.Ayenbite of Inwyt,214.Aymon,156.Bacchanals,449ff.Bacchus, theatre of,476.Bacon, Roger,165,193,194."Badin," on the stage,492.Bailey, Harry, of the "Tabard,"316ff.,321ff.,341.Balade de bon Conseyl,341.Balduf,221.Baldwin, archbishop of Canterbury,176,177,198.John Ball, priest,359,368,401,413,491.Ballads, by Chaucer,271, on Griselda,332;352ff., by Gower,366ff.;512,see"Chansons," and Songs.Ballets,456.Barbour, J.,361ff.,507.Bards, Celtic,10.Barking, Clemence of,123.Barry, Gerald de, on Welshmen,10;19,117,134,176,192,198.Barry, Richard de,203.Barry, William de,198.Bartholomew, St., life of, in A.S.,91.Bartholomew the Englishman,169,195,225,406.Bath, ruins at,19,59."Battle," Bk. ii. c. i.,97ff.Battle abbey,102ff.Bavaria, Isabeau of,455.Bayard, a horse,271.Bayeux tapestry,100.Beauchamp, family of,109.Beaufort, Jane,504.Beaumont, Louis de, bishop of Durham,162.Beauty, physical,264, Chaucer's idea of,292;353, ff.Beauveau, Pierre de,311,354.Becket, St. Thomas, life in French,123;156,165,188ff.,208,319.Bede,57,62, life and works,66ff.,81, translated by Alfred,82ff.;205,220.Bedford, George Neville, duke of,515.Bédier, on fabliaux,142.Bello Trojano, De,176.Beowulf,37ff.,45,47, analysis of,48ff., compared with Roland,54ff.;99,219,338.Bercheur, Pierre,183.Berger, S., on Bible,433.Berkeley, Edward of,284.Bernard, St.,188,191.Berners, Dame Juliana,522.Bernlak de Haut Désert,350.Bérou, author of aTristan,134.Berry, Jean duc de,76.Beryn, tale of,320.Bessarion,168,525.Bestiaire d'Amour,123.Bestiaries,76,123,214,276,409.Betenham, William,312.Bevis of Hampton,223.Bible, in Anglo-Saxon,71ff., by Ælfric,87, in English, in French,207;315, quoted in Parliament,415ff., translated by Wyclif,432ff., dramatised,489, Pecock on,521."Bibles," moral works,366.Biblesworth, Walter de,237.Bigod,250,109.Biquet, Robert,226.Biscop, Benedict,66.Bishops, warrior, learned, saintly,162ff.Blacke, Anthony,256.Black Prince,232,242,262,264,284,425.Blanket, of Bristol,256.Blickling Homilies,45,88ff.Boccaccio,143,268,282,288ff.,299ff.,320ff.,332,370ff.,499.Body and Soul, debate of,230.Boece, translated by Alfred,82,84ff.;165,175, translated by Chaucer,291;339,411,490,505.Bohemia, heresies in,438.Bohemond, of Antioch,107.Böhler, Peter,438.Bohun,109,250.Boileau,330,473.Boke of Nurture,264,of St. Albans,522.Boldensele, William of,409.Bollandus,470.Bonaventure, St.,214.Boncuor, William de,272.Boniface, St.,64,65,68.Boniface VIII.,432.Book of Cupid,279,of the Duchesse,272,279ff.,499,of Nurture,264,of St. Albans,522."Börn,"44.Bossert, onTristan,135ff.Bourgogne, Jean de, à la barbe,407ff.Bourse pleine de sens,226.Bozon Nicole,118,123.Bracton, H. de,196,235,254.Bradford-on-Avon, Anglo-Saxon Church at,63.Bradshaigh, lady,333.Bradshaw, on Chaucer,324ff.Bradwardine, archbishop,193,194.Brakelonde, Jocelin de,124.Brampton, Thomas,496.Brandan, St.,209,210.Brantingham, Thomas de,452.Breakspeare, Nicolas,111,188.Brescia, Albertano de,325,331.Brétigny, peace of,271,391.Britain, Celtic, Bk. i. c. i.,3ff.Britons,7ff., not destroyed by Anglo-Saxons,29ff.;177, "gentil,"330,338.Brittany, its literature,13, how populated,33;132.Broker, Nicolas,265.Bromyard, John of,183.Brooke, Stopford,39,72.Browning, Robert,342, and Preface.Bruce, David,115.Bruce, the,361.Brunanburh, ode on,46.Brunne,seeMannyng.Brutof Layamon,219ff.Brutus the Trojan,112,114.Bukton,341.Bunyan,57,216,382.Burgundy, Henry of,107.Burnellus, the ass,178.Burns, Robert,510.Burton, Thomas of,266.Bury, Richard of,166ff.,169,175,188,202,203.Byrhtnoth,47.Byron, lord,38,139.Cædmon,45,68, life and works,70ff.Cæsar, on Celts,6,7,11,18, on Germans,23;29,222.Cain,475.Callisthenes, pseudo,128,129.Cambinscan,325.Cambrensis,seeBarry.Cambridge, University of,173ff.Canterbury, Gervase of,202."Thomas of,258.Canterbury Tales,245,296,313ff.,373,497,