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already been posited, by innumerabl
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manuscripts are not confined to a s
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etween a work’s entire, real audi
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sources. This man is John Cok, an A
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notes create tight structural readi
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CHAPTER 1: NAMES, MARVELS AND DREAM
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century scholastics to facilitate a
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however, wholly eccentric, as we sh
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42r: “· How Arthour ȝaf bataill
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Cornewaile,” “Eleyne þat was k
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primarily Latin literacy. Conversel
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mountain is critical to a reader at
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y marginal notes. They are, on the
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þat shal haue a white tong and tre
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Brut, 124 Wace’s Roman de Brut an
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text almost word for word. 129 It i
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to the crown and subsequent death.
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In terms of a practical aid for rea
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imperatives. 143 In Caligula, a mor
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The mnemonic model for annotations
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insertion into the Metrical Chronic
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f. 6v, at Robert of Gloucester, Met
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obscures Gwendolene’s gender. Aru
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fifteenth century” by Kelly DeVri
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clere, / Il ot esté Uther, sun per
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adapted to pious meditation, but no
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1.4 Standing Out From the Ordinary
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marvel of the fighting eagles, emph
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haþ euer’ Leuede in clennesse, a
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Either with or without an explicit
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Metrical Chronicle, 1.350.37-38). E
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surely of a piece with the dreams t
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chronicle tradition as their model.
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on texture of vertical lines (folds
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Lucius, 217 or the “ hij tres in
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significance in the larger context
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for it first acquiring the name [i.
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is held out to Arthur a few lines l
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and Rome) emphasize the nationalism
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attention to moments of formal and
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main scribe). 244 Hand B annotates
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to place those names in the margins
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143. 253 Likewise, while the comman
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going “into enge[londe]”), 258
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each sister and achieving a differe
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And damyseles caroles lediþ On gre
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on the fate of nations. Surely one
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country constitutes an invasion. Im
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But corporate political action is k
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precise context in which they were
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enters her room at night. The magic
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Alexander’s actions as a private
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one. Alexander’s death is inevita
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Readers are alerted not only to Ale
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Slayne”). Of the fifteen notes in
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And afolk me clepiþ Vetas Al blak
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their initial introduction and text
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eciprocal love (“And he [louede]
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“vndurstod wel / Þat þe kyng is
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2.5 Romance, Chronicle and the Form
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An interest in letters recurs at se
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urial to the fallen Greeks. “That
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careful distinction is maintained i
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person or reproduced directly. Ther
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kind of reading aid, and one that h
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90ra, at 10949: “ Nowey dis | Mil
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walwanus idem sunt” (“Note that
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If we set aside, however, these ind
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Launcelot, for all the love that ev
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‘speaking’ to everybody.” 335
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IMPERATOR. Item in the Castel of Do
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were peteuous lettyrs, but in no wy
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quotations from Joseph of Exeter in
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are less like what appears in the E
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speech, alerting the reader to a cr
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poem then ultimately derive from th
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formal rhetoric of the letters, as
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ecalls the “XV kyngis” he has p
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debate - although, once again, the
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faucon mak of busard / No hardy kny
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appear a few notes in a fourteenth-
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makes a formal, public declaration:
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cheualier.” And, in the last, Gal
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gain and greater honor than ever,
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CHAPTER 3: MEET THE ANNOTATOR: JOHN
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Cambridge, Corpus Christi College M
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As for Cok himself, he is best know
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text; he ages, he becomes infirm, h
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chronicle reaches the historical pe
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I is “Bew clerk,” and that he
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The rex dictus here (Henry II) is n
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Ego Iohannes Portuensis episcopus r
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Our picture deepens, however, as we
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ichness of each piece and an apprai
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desired to create a neat break betw
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closed together with the blue ink s
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The mark is not unique to Cok. A ve
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intended for others involved in the
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however, it also means either that
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description that refers to the firs
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From the view of the table of conte
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texts, comprising in all a total of
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forgiving sin and lamenting the hum
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They kill the Father by a thousand
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great religious authorities like Be
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Oportebat nos, dilectissime, cleric
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495.15. mendacium. Seculares namque
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The inclusion of this additional ma
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sinner, to understand the nature of
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What follows is a guide for the bet
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intercessor, an addressee appropria
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that they may be used, as a way of
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conjugation of the pronoun hic, wit
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These levels of meditation are not
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patristic, others heretical and sti
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despised, and he seizes his chance,
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classified as “Narrative Reading
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anonymity is tantamount to a generi
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authorship of the text is not the p
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also invokes the standard medieval
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names, but not on the surface of an
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French text is figured as part of t
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This time there is no mention of Ro
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Examination of the language Cok use
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A hub of London literary life, Shir
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addressing the public of the ‘fes
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4.2 Reading Cok’s Notes: Decoding
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summarizing narrative content and s
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instead at a point somewhere in the
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(line 456), a full eight lines afte
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that is, he was probably more likel
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everence, concord, innocence, and c
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the speech of which the “members
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4.4 Language and Interpretation: Mo
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and scribe who routinely copied and
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no means a practice universally or
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text’s diction does not solely ru
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Woman, revealing her history and mo
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allegorical meaning. This would not
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4.5 The Marvelous, Again Following
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tempted. That he exhibits steadfast
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“Scipilions” rather than the mo
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while the “nota per totum” head
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f. 64ra at Lovelich, History, XLV.2
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Northgallie.” Confused by the cor
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Cok either prepares the text with t
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will be confounded by a second “h
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presenting the text must necessaril
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manuscript layout. Nor does he seem
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evidence is too scanty to either cl
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instead that the numbering to stand
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“Of hym [Lancelot of the Lake] Sc
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culmination and conclusion of the f
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In the text of the prophetic geneal
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This presentation of Lancelot of th
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noted? There are some common themes
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frequently one of origin, the begin
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the artifact of the prophetic tree
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So much for the major content and t
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As I have already briefly mentioned
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picture. 605 The instructions do no
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movement of troops, specifying name
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these instructions focuses on the s
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we can see some of the range permis
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was used in the presentation and in
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annotations. 618 Laid out with larg
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Ultimately, of course, while it wou
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masculine bias read perhaps some ev
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the court by vicious factional squa
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defeats are unimportant to the prog
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121r, at 189.15: “Here sir Bew- |
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the Gareth’s sources. 647 Still,
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entertainment, as the author of the
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Still, some important details of th
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scholars, 658 and some of which pla
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While the notes have included some
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physical proximity to the Gareth, t
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Lyonet’s protection of her sister
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Avilion” (Malory, Works, 38.10),
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the realism of the Morte Darthur’
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Looking more closely at the note ma
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significance of the Grail from a pu
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elsewhere. It has already been obse
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This nuancing of the notes’ viole
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marvelous separate from the explica
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his identification as Lancelot’s
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A further special quality seems to
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their meaning. The notes offer no e
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In their totality, the annotations
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individual, showing the hand in a d
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f. 19v at Malory, Works, 33.14: beg
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ignoring this moment - or any simil
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combat is signaled when the princip
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achieving the adventure. This appro
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e seen as an extension of Reader M
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employed not, as one might suppose,
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patterns in chronicles, which thems
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stages in that episode will receive
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Modern evaluation seems to echo obs
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manuscripts, and at mining these no
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Lucius (the first Christian king) a
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Anno · M · lxxx 751 · Coronacio
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Anno · M\o/ · CC · xvj\o/ Corona
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Anno · M\o/ · CCCC · xiij · ix\
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f. 6v-7r: excerpt of the Compendium
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same as in the original, text in re
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Nota bene de paciencia Nobile vinc
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ff. 8r-46r, Tractatus de Interiori
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Synodo Congregatos in PL 184:1085-1
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tocius humani | generis · o miseri
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ff. 141r-159r, De Fide ad Petrum si
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Vut peccata vilia de terra radiantu
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Capacity is worth nothing, where th
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Morales ad Lucilium, and - perhaps
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David assert that “the question [
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22va, at XXIII.322: “[┐] de ass
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68va, at XLVI.439: “┐ how kinge
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WORKS CITED Ackerman, Robert. “He
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Boffey, Julia, and John J. Thompson
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Cooper, Helen. “Opening Up the Ma
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Gaimar, Geoffrey. The Anglo-Norman
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Hunter, Joseph. A Catalogue of the
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Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, and Denise D
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Lyons, Faith. “Malory’s Tale of
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Orme, Nicholas. “John Holt (d. 15
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The Social History of Books, circa
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———. Wace’s Roman de Brut: