astrology, 76, 106, 120, 301n151

Atwood, Margaret, 2

Augustine, 25, 64–67, 105, 167, 194, 213, 252, 292n83, 297n118

The City of God, 105

The Confessions, 64

aura, 40–41, 52, 290n70

authority (literary or poetic), 1–4, 7–9, 11, 24, 42, 52, 58, 71–72, 74, 80, 97–98, 152, 169, 194, 249, 254–259, 263, 279n10, 280n15, 290n71, 290n73, 300n143

Averroës (Ibn Rushd), 8, 107–109, 143–146, 152, 298n131, 304n181

Awntyrs Off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne, 218, 306n196, 313n247

Bacchae (Euripides), 173, 190, 193

Bannatyne Manuscript, 39, 70, 102, 294n96

Barbour, John (The Bruce), 128

bare life, 186–188, 192

Barthes, Roland, 52, 59, 204–205

Bassandyne print of Henryson’s Moral Fables, 53, 70

Baswell, Christopher, 291n75, 295n104, 297n118

Battle of Flodden, 18, 35, 67–68, 286–287n56, 288n64

Baudrillard, Jean, 40

Bawcutt, Priscilla, 3, 23, 79, 278n7, 281n22, 285n46, 286n52, 290n69, 293n90, 308n204

Becket, Thomas, 39

Bednartz, James P., 321n297

bell, 131–134, 150, 162, 236–240, 243, 303n170, 303n171

Benjamin, Walter, 40, 52, 290n70, 322n302, 326n325

Bennett, J. A. W., 303n167, 303n171, 304n177, 305n190, 308n205, 318–319n277

Benoît de Sainte-Maure, 9, 182, 205–208, 232, 250, 314n249

Benson, C. David, 279n10, 287n56, 298n125, 310n224

Beowulf, 28, 116

Béroul, Thomas (Tristan and Isolde), 166

Bestul, Thomas H., 311n230

Bhabha, Homi K., 4–5, 7

BibleSee also Job; Christ, 172

Book of JobSee also Job, 194, 311–312n238

Gospel According to John, 171–172

Gospel According to Mark, 194

Revelations, 213

bifold authority, 249, 255

Black DeathSee also plague, 65, 123, 167

blasphemy, 9, 15, 19, 23, 87, 125, 139–140, 150, 158, 163–164, 171, 185, 193, 223, 226, 306–307n199

Blind Hary, 5, 278n8, 280n15

Blodgett, James E., 18, 282n23

Bloom, Harold, 33, 35, 79, 257

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 8, 28, 62, 65, 67–68, 139–140, 180, 182, 189, 204–205, 308n208, 320n286

De casibus virorum illustrium, 65, 140

Decameron, 65

De mulieribus claris, 139

Il Filostrato, 182, 207, 241, 319n286

Boethius, 8, 29, 57, 71–72, 81–82, 84, 95–96, 108–109, 111, 130, 132, 136, 169, 287n59, 291n79