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List of Names and Terms
The many abstract qualities that are capitalized (Abstinence, Anger, etc.) refer to the characters which personify them in the poem, although the qualities themselves may occur at other points. The Bible references in footnotes are not indexed.
Abingdon
Abraham
Abstinence
Active Life
Adam
Agag
Age
Alan of Lille
alchemy
Alexander
Alexander of Villedieu
Alexandria
alliteration in the poem
alms
Ambrose
Amends
Andrew
Anger
Anima
animals
Antichrist
Antony
Apocalypse of Gluttons
apostles
Aristotle
Armenia
Astaroth
astrology
astronomy and astrology
Augustine of Canterbury
Augustine of Hippo
Augustinians
Austin Friars
Avarice
Averroes
Avignon
Babylon
baptism
bastards
beasts
Beelzebub
begging
Belial
Benedict
Bernard
Bethlehem
Bible, versions of
birds
bishops
Boethius
Book
bribery
Brinton, Bishop
Bromholm, Cross of
Bruges
Cain
Calvary
Canterbury
Cantor, Peter
Cardinal Virtues
cardinals
Carmelites
Cato, Dionysius
Charity
Chastity
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chester, Cross of
Childishness
Christ
Church
Cistercians
Civil-Law
Cleobury Mortimer
Cleophas
Clergy, synonym for Learning
Colette
Colting
Colwall
Comestor, Peter
Comfort
commandments (of Christ)
confession
Conscience
Constantine
contrition
Courtesy
Covetousness
Damascus
Daniel
David (King David)
Death
demons
Despair
Despensers
Dismas
Dives
Do-best
Do-better
Do-well
Doctor, the learned
Dominic
Dominicans
Doomsday
Dover
Dread
dreams
Dunmow
Easter
Eden
editions of the poem
Edmund, King
Edward II
Edward III
Edward the Confessor
Elijah
England
Envy
Eve
Faith
False Fickle-tongue
Falsehood
Fidelity
Flanders
Flatterer, Friar
Flattery
Fleshly-fancy
Fortitude, Spirit of
Fortune
France
Francis
Franciscans
Free Will
French
friars
Gabriel
Galicia
Garden of Eden
Gentleness
Giles
Gluttony
Goblin
GOD (Grants the Obedient Deliverance)
God
Godfrey of Winchester
Good Faith
Grace
Great Malvern Priory
Greeks
Gregory I (Saint Gregory)
Gregory IX
Guile
half-acre, plowing of the
Haukin
heathens
hell, harrowing of
Herefordshire
hermits
Hippocrates
Holiness
Holy Ghost
Holy Spirit
Honesty
Hope
Hosea
Humility
Hunger
Hypocrisy
Idleness
illegitimacy
imagery in the poem
Imagination
India
indulgences
Innocent III, Pope
Intelligence
Isaac, Abraham and
Isaiah
Isidore of Seville
Israel
James
japes
Jehoshaphat
Jericho
Jerome
Jerusalem
jesters
Jesus
Jews
Job
John Bromyard
John Chrysostom
John of Bridlington
John of Gaunt
John of Hoveden
John the Baptist
John the Evangelist (and Apostle)
jokers and japes
Jordan, William
Joseph
Joshua
jousting
Judas
Jude
Judith
Justice, sister of Mercy
Justice, Spirit of
kings
Kit
knights
Kynde Wit
laborers
Lady Holy Church
Langland, William
Larceny
Largesse
Latin
Law
lawyers
Lazarus
Learning
Lecherous Living
Ledbury
Levites
Liar
Life
literary context of the poem
Little Malvern Priory
Lives of the Saints
London
Longinus
Lot
Love
love, the divinest virtue
Lovely-to-look-at
Lucca, Cross of
Lucifer
Luke
Lust
Mahomet
Mahon
Malvern
Malvern Hills
Mark
marriage
Martha
Mary, Blessed Virgin
Mary Magdalene
Matthew
Meed
merchants
Mercy
mice
Middle English
Mind
minstrels
miracle plays
miracles (of Jesus)
Mohammed
Money (Miss Money)
monks
Mortimer, Earl
Moses
murder
Muslims
Native Wit
nativity (of Jesus)
Nature
Nazareth
Nebuchadnezzar
Need
Nephthali
New Law
Nicodemus
Nineveh
Noah
nuns
Old Age
Old Law
Oxfordshire
palmers
Pamplona
parables
Paraclete
pardon, tearing of the
pardoners
Passion (of Christ)
Patience
Paul (Apostle)
Paul of Thebes
Peace
Peasants’ Revolt
penitence
Peter
Pharaoh
Pharisees
Physic
physicians
Piers
Pilate
pilgrimage, places of
pilgrims
Plague
Plato
plowing of the half-acre
Pope, corruption of the
Pope Gregory
Pope Innocent
poverty
Presumption
Pride
Pride-in-perfection
priests
Pru
Prudence, Spirit of
Prunella Proudheart
Prussia
quadrivium
Ragamuffin
rats, parliament of
Reason
Recklessness
Repentance
restitution
resurrection (of Christ)
Richard II
Rocamadour
Rokayle
Rokele
Rome
Rule (of Saint Benedict)
Saint…
Saint Paul’s (Cathedral)
Samaritan
Sampson
Samuel
Santiago de Compostela
Saracens
Satan
satisfaction
Saul
science
Scribes
Scripture
Seneca
seven arts
Seven Deadly Sins
Seven Sleepers of Ephesus
Shropshire
Simeon
Simon
Simony
Sinai
Skill
Sloth
Socrates
Sodom
Solomon
Soul
sources of the text
Spain
structure of the poem
Study
Swearing
symbolism in the poem
synopsis of the poem
Syria
tearing of the pardon
Temperance, Spirit of
Templars
Ten Commandments
Thaddeus
Thames
Theology
Thomas (Apostle)
Thomas à Becket
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Two-tongues
Thought
Tobias
Tobit
traders
Trajan
tree (of Crucifixion)
Tree of Charity
Tree of Knowledge
Trinity
trivium
True-tongue
Truth
Unity, Church of
usury
verse form of the poem
versions of the poem
Virgil
Virgin Mary
virginity
Vulgate
Walsingham
Warren Witwell
Waryn Wisdom
Wastrel
Watchfulness
wealth
Westminster
Westminster Abbey
widowhood
Will
Wily
Wit
Witty
Worcestershire
Wrong
Wyclif, John
Zacchaeus