Alliterative Revivals

Index

Index Abu Mashr, I68 Acre, loss of, I2I, I69 Al-Andalus, II7, I2I, I6I Alexander and Dindimus, I8, I# Alexander of Macedon, 7, 23-25, III-54-, 232, 237; as chivalric model, I52-53, 230; as hybrid, 128-30, I52; immortal longings, 23-25, I4-5-53; Matter of, I29. See also Nine Worthies Alexandria, II9, I2I, I53 Alisaunder ofMacedoine, I8 Allegory, political, resistance to, II Alliteration, for eye as well as ear, 35-36; as marker of antiquity, I5, 26 Alliterative meter, formal, I5, I6-I7, 25-30; a-line and b-line, metrical differentiation of, 26-30; artistry as self-authorization, 36-37; morphologies, past, recreation of, 28-30; performed archaism and, I6, 28-30, 39; self-consciousness and, 27-30; theories about, 25-30; voiced final -e and, 28-30 Alliterative revival, 9-IO, I6-20. See also Alliterative traditions Alliterative romance, I-2, I4--4-0; audience, fictional, readers and listeners, 33-38; audience, probable, 37-38, I05-6; backward-looking, 39; as both oral and written, 35-37; as contentious, 267; defined, 2-9, 30-33; generic features of, 20-25, 30-33; history writing and, 30-3I, 36-37, 4-0; narrative voice in, 33-37; poetic authority, 33-37; provinciality, 30-33, 4-0; relation to insular romance, 30-32, 4-o; religiosity and, 30-32; social investment, 39-4-0, 268; spectacular historic consciousness of, I-2, 39-4-0, 26I, 267-68; themes, major (see also Temporality, dramatized). See also Alliterative meter, formal; Romance, insular Alliterative stanza forms, 260-6I Alliterative traditions, vernacular, theories about, I6-2o; Anglo-Norman, analogues of, I7; Anglo-Saxon and, I6, 25-30, 27-28; diversity, of, I-2, Io, 39-4-0; early Middle English and, I6, 25-30; Irish, I7; lexicon, I7; literary, fabricated as oral and written, 35-37; manuscripts, survival of, I6; monastic preservation of, I7, I8; mystery of, I4--I5, I9-2o; nativist, ro, I9, 39; oral, lost, ro, I7-I8; Welsh, I7 Amon, 136-4-4 Anectanabus, 6, 8, 125-54-; as Egyptian prophet/magician, I30-37· See also Magic Anglo-Saxon poetry and writing: incomprehensible by fourteenth century, I4--I5 Anne (of Bohemia), 3, I99 Anti-Judaism. See Christianity Arabs, I29; scholarship and, 134-, I6I, I68 Aries, Philippe, 24-o, 257 Aristocracy, British: crusading activities of, I29, I5I-53, I70-'7I, I86-87; dependence on king, 73-'74-; fifteenth-century heyday, I93; recruitment in king's wars, falling, 204--8; role in government, 7I-74-; selfdetermination of, 74--8I, 232-36; solidarity with king, costs of, I89-236; war, careerism in, 201. See also Crusades; Gentry; Monarchy Aristotle, I28, I39 Arms and armor, 2o8-I3, 2I7-I8; recalling Hundred Years War in Morte Arthure, 190, 220; ruptured (see Wounds and wounding). See also Heraldry; Spectacle and performance Ars moriendi, 239, 24-9, 250. See also Learn to Die Artlrur, 8, I2, 66-IIo, III, 132, 2I8, 237, 25I-55, 262; absent from early insular romance, 30-3I, 202; alliterative romance 318 Index and, 31; battle standard of, 2IO, 223; brethe and, 213-17; childish, in Sir Gawain, 68-74-; chivalric nostalgia, critique of, 190-92; Edward I and, 203; Edward III and, 189-93, 202, 203-4-; fantasy of solidarity with knighthood, 190--93, 232-33, 236; generation, targeting of, 226-32; Matter of, 66-no, 129, 189-239; as monster, 193-95, 209-w, 224--26; as problematic chivalric model, 66-no, 130, 189-232, 251-55, 262; Richard II and, 68-74-; translation of, by Edward I, 203; "widowing" of, 192, 199, 232. See also Nine Wotthies Arundel (archbishop of Canterbury), 70 Arundel (earl), 5-6, 73; resurrection plot, s-6 Ashley, Kathleen, 85 Astrology. See Magic Atiya, Aziz Suryal, 120, 152-53, 170 Audience. See Alliterative romance, audience Augustine (saint, of Hippo), 7; Contra Faustum, 158; De civitate Dei, 158-59, r6o; De doarina christiana, 158; vision of history in, 21, 87, w8--9, 158-59, r6o, 237 Augustine (saint, of Rome), so, 64Augustinian clerical culture, 155; doctrines of Jewish witness and tolerance, 155-60, 161; partners with Jews in land acquisition , 175-76; providential history in, r6o, 169; utility of the Jews, 157-60, 187-88. See also Bolton Priory; William of Newburgh Augustinian tragedy, 200 Authority and sovereignty, 9; centralized versus dispersed, 88-I03, I08-IO, 193. See also Aristocracy, British; Gentty; Monarchy; Provinciality, alliterative romance and Averroeism, n7 Awntyrs offArthure, The, 1-2, 6-9, n-12, 32, 233, 237-64Ayton , Andrew, 207...