item: #1 of 11 id: 13144 author: Power, Eileen title: Medieval People date: None words: 85848 flesch: 71 summary: The learned editor remarks that _bric_, which is mentioned in the thirteenth century by Rutebeuf was played, seated, with a little stick; _qui féry_ is probably the modern game called by the French _main chaude; pince merille,_ which is mentioned among the games of Gargantua, was a game in which you pinched one of the players' arms, crying 'Mérille' or 'Morille'. on games, 101, 117, 187; on garments and household linen, 98, 99, 102, 111, 112, 117, 188; on management of farm, 100; on servants, 100, 102, 107-111, 114, 115, 117, 118; on wife's second marriage, 98, 114 Mercers, 149 Merchant Adventurers, 122, 193 Merchant: Arab, 47; Chinese, 46, 47, 58, 71; English, _see_ Betson, Company Merchant Adventurers, Paycocke, Staple; Indian, 47; Italian, 149; Roman, 1 ff; Spanish, 149; Venetian, _see_ keywords: account; ages; bed; betson; bishop; bodo; book; business; calais; cely; century; charlemagne; chaucer; children; china; church; cit; city; civilization; cloth; coggeshall; company; country; day; days; death; east; eglentyne; empire; end; england; english; estate; fair; family; father; friends; god; good; great; half; hand; head; history; home; house; husband; ibid; john; katherine; khan; king; know; lady; lay; left; letters; life; london; look; lord; love; madame; man; marco; master; medieval; men; merchants; middle; money; ménagier; notes; nuns; order; paris; paycocke; people; picture; place; polo; prioress; right; roman; rome; round; sea; set; sir; staple; stonor; things; thomas; time; trade; venice; way; west; wife; william; women; wool; work; world; years; young cache: 13144.txt plain text: 13144.txt item: #2 of 11 id: 19468 author: Jarrett, Bede title: Mediaeval Socialism date: None words: 28031 flesch: 66 summary: Where all the workers were paid by their tenancy of land, where, in other words, fixity and stability of possession were the very basis of social life, the fluidity of labour was impossible. Had man continued in this state of innocence, government, slavery, and private property would never have been required. keywords: authority; england; god; individual; king; labour; land; law; life; lord; m.a; man; men; nature; need; new; people; possession; power; property; right; social; state; theories; theory; things; thomas; time; use; way; work; wycliff cache: 19468.txt plain text: 19468.txt item: #3 of 11 id: 31303 author: Lee, Vernon title: Euphorion - Vol. I Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance date: None words: 49791 flesch: 42 summary: When the doors of the chapel are at length opened, Raphael forgets Perugino; Fra Bartolomeo forgets Botticelli; Sodoma forgets Leonardo; the narrower hesitating styles of the fifteenth century are abandoned, as the great example is disseminated throughout Italy; and even the tumult of angels in glory which the Lombard Correggio is to paint in far-off Parma, and the daringly simple Bacchus and Ariadne with which Tintoret will decorate the Ducal Palace more than fifty years later--all that is great and bold, all that is a re-incarnation of the spirit of Antiquity, all that marks the culmination of Renaissance art, seems due to the impulse of Michael Angelo, and, through him, to the example of Signorelli. This youth, with something of a harlequin in his jumps and his ridiculous thin legs and preposterous round body, is evidently the model for the naked demi-gods of the Resurrection and the Paradise: he is the handsome boy as the fifteenth century gave him to Signorelli; opposite, he is the living youth of the fifteenth century idealized by the study of ancient sculpture; just as the Thunder-stricken may be some scene of street massacre such as Signorelli might have witnessed at Cortona or Perugia; while the agonies of the Hell are the grouped and superb agonies taught by the antique; just as the two archangels of the Hell, in their armour of Baglioni's heavy cavalry, may represent the modern element, and the same archangels, naked, with magnificent flying draperies, blowing the trumpets of the Resurrection, may show the antique element in Renaissance art. keywords: ages; antique; antiquity; art; artists; beauty; body; century; city; civilization; colour; country; day; death; earth; effects; english; evil; feeling; fifteenth; form; good; half; hand; head; history; horror; human; influence; italian; italy; life; light; literature; living; lorenzo; love; man; mediæval; men; middle; mind; nature; nay; painting; past; peasant; people; poetry; real; reality; renaissance; sculpture; sense; sky; spirit; spring; study; things; thought; time; tourneur; town; webster; women; work; world cache: 31303.txt plain text: 31303.txt item: #4 of 11 id: 31304 author: Lee, Vernon title: Euphorion - Vol. II Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance date: None words: 57341 flesch: 40 summary: Mediæval love, therefore, never obtains its object, however much it may obtain the woman; for the object of mediæval love, as of mediæval religious mysticism, is not one particular act or series of acts, but is its own exercise, of which the various incidents of the drama between man and woman are merely so many results. Mediæval love poetry, compared with the love poetry of Antiquity and the love poetry of the revival of letters, is, in its lyric form, decidedly chaste; but it is perfectly explicit; and, for all its metaphysical tendencies and its absence of clearly painted pictures, the furthest possible removed from being Platonic. keywords: ages; antiquity; ariosto; art; beatrice; beauty; boiardo; carolingian; century; colour; dante; day; dead; early; epic; eyes; fact; feeling; feudal; flesh; form; god; good; half; hand; husband; ideal; italian; italy; kind; knight; ladies; lady; life; light; like; love; man; mediæval love; men; middle; mind; minnesingers; nay; nuova; painting; passion; people; poetry; poets; portrait; real; reality; renaissance; round; sculpture; sense; song; soul; spenser; story; tales; things; time; vita; von; wife; woman; work; world cache: 31304.txt plain text: 31304.txt item: #5 of 11 id: 37865 author: McLaughlin, Edward T. (Edward Tompkins) title: Studies in Mediæval Life and Literature date: None words: 57142 flesch: 71 summary: She is good and she is bad; Makes us happy, makes us sad; Such moods love always had. Good life is a crown above all nobility. keywords: abelard; age; birds; boy; century; child; children; dance; day; days; dear; father; feeling; flowers; german; girl; god; good; hand; heart; heloise; home; knight; ladies; lady; life; literature; love; man; mediæval; middle; mind; mother; nature; neidhart; new; people; place; poem; poet; poetry; sense; sentiment; songs; soul; spring; story; summer; thought; time; ulrich; von; way; winter; woman; world; years; young cache: 37865.txt plain text: 37865.txt item: #6 of 11 id: 38680 author: Walsh, James J. (James Joseph) title: The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries date: None words: 201316 flesch: 58 summary: In most men's minds the Thirteenth Century does not readily call up the idea of a series of great works in literature, whose influence has been at all as profound and enduring as that of the universities in the educational order, or of the Cathedrals in the artistic order. Among them, as among the Minnesingers, love is no longer sexual passion, it is rather the motive to great works, to self-surrender, to the winning an honorable name as Courtier and Poet. keywords: ages; art; arts; attention; beginning; books; care; cathedral; centuries; century; chapter; character; charity; christian; church; cities; city; common; country; course; dante; day; death; development; doubt; education; end; england; english; europe; example; existence; expression; fact; father; footnote; form; france; francis; french; generations; genius; german; giotto; god; good; gothic; guild; half; having; heart; high; history; holy; human; hymns; idea; iii; illustration; influence; innocent; interest; italy; john; king; knowledge; language; latin; law; life; literature; louis; love; making; man; matter; medical; medicine; medieval; members; men; middle; mind; modern; movement; nature; new; number; order; original; page; paris; people; period; philosophy; place; poetry; poor; pope; power; present; professor; progress; purpose; regard; rights; saint; schools; science; set; spirit; students; study; subject; supreme; teaching; things; thirteenth; thomas; thought; time; towns; truth; universities; university; use; way; women; work; world; years; york cache: 38680.txt plain text: 38680.txt item: #7 of 11 id: 39608 author: Rydberg, Viktor title: The Magic of the Middle Ages date: None words: 43480 flesch: 62 summary: |All white |Many |Carnelian,|Topaz, Ruby,|Diamond, | | stones | colored. _ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | keywords: = =; ages; angels; authority; belief; body; century; child; christ; christian; church; day; demons; devil; divine; earth; elements; faith; fire; form; god; good; hammer; heavens; holy; human; knowledge; life; light; magic; magician; man; mars; means; men; middle; moon; nature; new; number; order; people; philosophy; place; planets; power; priest; reason; satan; science; spiritual; stars; things; time; universe; water; witch; witches; words; world; | | cache: 39608.txt plain text: 39608.txt item: #8 of 11 id: 42824 author: Cutts, Edward Lewes title: Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages Third Edition date: None words: 185633 flesch: 67 summary: Hold no conversation with any man out of a church window, but respect it for the sake of the Holy Sacrament which ye see there through;[156] and at other times (other whiles) take your women to the window of the house (huses thurle), other men and women to the parlour-window to speak when necessary; nor ought ye (to converse) but at these two windows. ._ per week; and yearly ten large stock-fish, one bushel of oatmeal, one of rye, two gallons of oil for lamps, one pound of tallow for candles, six loads of turf, and one load of faggots; also to repair their habitations; and to find a chaplain to say mass in the chapel of these recluses daily; their successors to be nominated by the duke and his heirs. keywords: a.d; abbey; abbot; add; ages; altar; armour; arms; benedictine; bishop; black; blue; body; book; british; canons; castle; cell; century; chamber; chapel; chaplain; chapter; character; chaucer; choir; church; churches; clergy; clerk; cloister; close; convent; costume; country; court; cross; date; day; days; description; earl; east; edward; end; england; english; example; fair; fashion; feet; fifteenth; figure; folio; form; fourteenth; friars; gate; general; god; gold; good; gown; green; group; habit; half; hall; hand; head; helmet; henry; hermit; hermitage; history; holy; hood; house; iii; illustration; iron; john; kind; king; knight; lady; launcelot; left; life; little; london; long; lord; mail; man; mass; master; mediæval; men; merchants; middle; military; minstrels; monasteries; monastery; monks; museum; near; noble; north; number; order; page; parish; people; period; picture; pilgrim; pilgrimage; place; priest; prior; read; recluse; red; representation; richard; right; round; royal; rule; saxon; service; set; shape; shield; ship; sir; south; spear; staff; stone; subject; sword; thirteenth; thomas; thou; timber; time; town; vol; wall; water; way; west; white; william; window; woodcut; work; world; year cache: 42824.txt plain text: 42824.txt item: #9 of 11 id: 42975 author: Salzman, L. F. (Louis Francis) title: Mediæval Byways date: None words: 31769 flesch: 57 summary: Cooke was a carrier from Kendale who came south in 1528 with £30 in money, much of it belonging to other men, in a 'bogett,' and put up at John Balenger's house in St. Ives. To hasten his going Ashburnham whistled on his fingers--a street-boy's accomplishment to which I must admit I have never managed to attain in spite of repeated efforts--at which whistle his esquire and other men in ambush suddenly rose up. keywords: case; century; church; clerk; cloth; coronation; course; court; day; days; edward; end; england; english; fact; fifteenth; gold; good; half; head; henry; horse; hym; iii; illustration; instance; john; journey; kind; king; life; london; lord; magic; man; master; mediæval; men; middle; money; number; people; place; prison; records; richard; robert; round; royal; silver; sir; thomas; time; water; way; white; wife; william; woman; years; young cache: 42975.txt plain text: 42975.txt item: #10 of 11 id: 46455 author: Davis, William Stearns title: Life on a Mediaeval Barony A Picture of a Typical Feudal Community in the Thirteenth Century date: None words: 122659 flesch: 72 summary: He found our Lord Philip sitting under an ash tree close to the bridge eating dinner, with many great nobles, Messire Conon among them, sitting on the grass. Great barons who shudder at the thought of eating beef on Fridays defy the Church absolutely when it comes to a matter of those creations of the devil (to quote St. Bernard of Clairvaux) in which immortal souls are so often sped. keywords: abbey; abbot; adela; age; aimery; alienor; aliquis; armor; arms; baron; baron conon; battle; bishop; brother; case; castle; cathedral; century; chapter; children; church; close; conon; course; court; day; days; donjon; duke; end; fair; family; father; feast; feudal; fief; fine; folk; france; french; god; gold; good; great; guests; hall; hand; head; holy; horses; illustration; jongleurs; kind; king; knights; lady; lands; law; left; life; lord; love; man; mass; master; means; men; monastery; money; monks; near; new; noble; paris; peasants; people; place; pontdebois; present; relics; right; saints; save; seigneur; set; sidenote; sire; son; squire; story; suzerain; things; time; tower; use; vassals; villeins; walls; war; water; way; wedding; white; women; work; world; years cache: 46455.txt plain text: 46455.txt item: #11 of 11 id: 6493 author: Bartholomaeus, Anglicus, active 13th century title: Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus date: None words: 42664 flesch: 75 summary: _, thick, strong, solid Bourgeon, _v._, to bud, burst forth Bray, _v._, to pound Brock, _n._, a badger Buck, _v._, to wash Busily, _adv._, carefully But, _prep._, except Car, _n._, means or instrument Carfle, _v._, to pound Carrions, _n._, corpses Cast, _v._, to intend Chaffer, _n._, trade Chine, _n._, chink, cleft Clarity, _n._, clearness Clepe, _v._, call Cliff, _n._, shore Clue, _n._, a clew or hank (of yarn) Comfort, _v._, to strengthen Common, _v._, to share one's food with others and ayenward Conject, _v._, conjecture Coverture, _n._, covering Craftily, _adv._, skilfully Culvour, _n._, pigeon Curtel, _n,_, a kirtle, a short coat, a covering Deadly, _adv._, mortal Deeming, _n._, judgment, opinion Default, _n._, deficiency Depart, _v._, to separate, share out Despiteously, _adv._, contemptuously Detty, _adj._, generous Disperple, _v._, to scatter, destroy Do, done, _v._, to put, to don Doomsman, _n._, judge Draust, _n._, dross, impurity Ear, _v._, to reap Else, _adv._, otherwise Enform, _v._, to make Even tofore, _adv._, opposite to Expert, _adv._, tried Fare, _v._, to happen Fear, _v. a._, to frighten Fell, _n._, an undressed skin Fen, _n._, clay Fine, _n._, a boundary Fleet, _v._, to float, to swim; _cf_. foor Frot, _v._, to rub Fumous, _adj._, vaporous, cloudy Fumosity, _n._, vapour Fundament, _n._, foundation Gentle, _adj._, noble, high-minded Gesses, _n._, jesses, cords for fastening the legs of a hawk Gete, _n._, goats Ghastful, _adj._, frightful Gin, _a._, machine Glad, _v. a._, to please Glimy, _adj._, slimy Gloss, _n._, the comment on Scripture, compiled in the ninth century from the fathers Glue, _n._. keywords: adj; air; aristotle; beasts; blood; body; book; children; cometh; divers; earth; fire; gold; good; hath; head; heart; iron; kind; land; lead; life; little; long; love; man; manner; matter; meat; men; metals; middle; moving; place; saith; set; sight; spirit; stone; sun; things; time; use; virtue; water; way; wit; work cache: 6493.txt plain text: 6493.txt