English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 1: From Celt to TudorMitchell, Donald Grant
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English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 1: From Celt to Tudor
Mitchell, Donald Grant
English literature -- History and criticism; Great Britain -- Intellectual life
Henry III., 56, 65.
Henry IV., 127, 132, 145.
Henry V., 141.
Henry VI. and VII., 144.
Henry VIII., 167;
character of, 172.
Hobbes, Thomas, 261;
his translation of Thucydides, 265.
Holinshed, Raphael, 211.
Hooker, Richard, and the “Ecclesiastical Polity,” 215, 242.
“Ivanhoe,” 50.
James I. of Scotland, 137.
Joan of Arc, 146.
John, King, 53.
John of Gaunt, 92;
a friend of Wyclif, 92;
of Chaucer, 110, 145.
Jonson, Ben, 282, 295.
Katharine of Aragon, 171.
“Kenilworth,” 68;
its picture of Queen Elizabeth’s visit, 314.
“King’s Quair, the,” 137.
Knox, John, 187.
Langlande, William, 84.
Lanier, Sidney, his “Mabinogion,” 8;
his “King Arthur,” 45.
Latimer, Hugh, 186.
Layamon, 43.
Leicester, Earl of, and Queen Elizabeth, 315.
Libraries at the end of the thirteenth century, 63.
Lilly, William, the head-master of St. Paul’s, 173.
Lindisfarne Abbey, 12.
Lodge, Thomas, 275.
London, 6;
in Chaucer’s time, 98.
“London Lickpenny” of Lydgate, 136.
Longfellow’s translation of “The Grave,” 21.
Lord’s Prayer, the, in Tyndale’s version, 185.
Lydgate, John, 135.
Lyly, John, 245.
Lytton, Lord, his “Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings,” 29.
“Mabinogion,” the, 8.
Macbeth, the murder of, 23.
“Madoc,” Southey’s poem, 49.
Mallory, Sir Thomas, 45.
Mandeville, Sir John, 59;
doubts respecting his travels, and personality, 60.
Map, Walter, 42.
Marco Polo, 59.
Marini Sanuto on the accession of Henry VIII., 169.
Marlowe, Christopher, 269.
“Marmion,” 3, 12.
Mary, Queen, 182, 184, 197.
Mary Queen of Scots, 241.
Matthew Paris, 46.
Mermaid Tavern, the, 274.
Milton, 15.
“Monastery, the,” 246.
More, Sir Thomas, 175, 185.
Nashe, Thomas, 276.
Norham Castle and “Marmion,” 3.
_Novum Organum_, the, of Bacon, 258.
Nut-Brown Maid, ballad of, 161.
Occleve, 135.
Orderic Vitalis, 46.
Oxford in the thirteenth century, 77.
“Parliament of Foules,” Chaucer’s poem, 107.
Paston Letters, the, 154.
Peele, George, 284;
his “Old Wives Tale,” 285.
Petrarch, 83.
“Piers Plowman, the Vision of,” 84.
Printing, the rise of, in England, 149.
Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, 312.
Purvey, his work on Bible of Wyclif, 96.
Puttenham’s “Arte of English Poesie,” 310.
Raleigh, 242.
Religious houses, spoliation of, 205.
Richard Cœur de Lion, 50.
Richard II., 126, 130.
Richard III., 148.
Rienzi, 83, 90.
Robert of Gloucester, 57.
Robin Hood’s bay, 13.
Robin Hood, 69.
Robin Hood ballads, 159.
Roger de Hoveden, 46.
“Roman de la Rose,” 104.
Roman remains in England, 6.
“Rosalynde,” Lodge’s novel, 275.
Sackville, Thomas, 210, 242.
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