Leper’s Mass, 170

leprosySee also syphilis, 9, 21, 51, 89, 92–93, 106, 125–126, 140, 144, 158, 164–170, 174–175, 186, 194, 200, 223, 228–229, 258, 268, 305n189, 311n235

Lerer, Seth, 35–37, 41, 280n17, 294n99

Lewis, C. S., 247

libelSee alsoinfamy; slander, 150, 158–159, 162–164

Lindsay, David, 5, 34, 37, 69, 124, 141, 278n7, 288n63

The Monarche, 124

The Tragedy of the Cardinal, 141

Lipking, Lawrence, 59–60, 282–283n29, 308n209

low style, 60–61, 74, 76, 79, 82

Lucan, 168

lybel of repudie, 19, 31

Lydgate, John, 8, 11–12, 17, 25, 33–37, 39, 65, 72, 101, 108, 112, 134, 140–142, 166, 177–181, 184–185, 189, 197–200, 235, 249–250, 255–256, 261, 270, 279n10, 281n21, 283n30, 286–287n56, 292n80, 294n87, 294n99–n100, 309n219–n220, 310n224, 320n294, 324n311, 325n317

The Churl and the Bird, 294n99

The Complaint of the Black Knight, 294n99

The Debate of the Horse, the Goose and Sheep, 325n317

The Fall of Princes, 141, 284n30, 294n99

Esopes(Isopes Fabules), 72, 294n99

The Siege of Thebes, 279n10, 283–284n30, 294n99, 320n294

The Temple of Glas, 284n30, 294n99

Troy Book, 11, 112, 141, 177, 179–181, 185, 197, 199, 249, 256, 279n10, 281n21, 283–284n30, 294n99, 310n224, 324n311

MacDiarmid, Hugh, 4

Macdougall, Norman, 3, 309n216–n217

Machan, Tim William, 79, 279n10

machine (literary or cultural), 6, 9–10, 85, 237, 156, 239, 277n3, 281n21, 298n127

MacQueen, John, 78, 295n103, 302–303n167

Macrobius, 297n118

maculate (maculation, maculait), 135, 140, 150, 153, 159, 165, 184, 202, 210–212, 237, 242, 263, 270

Mandeville, Sir John, 78

Mapstone, Sally, 288–289n66

Margaret of Scotland, 38, 39

Margery Kempe (The Book of Margery Kempe), 167

Mars, 189, 283n30

Mary Magdalene, 67, 192, 194–196, 307n202

masochismSee also sadism; sadomasochism, 82, 238, 319n286

Matthew of Vendôme, 206–207

McCarthy, Conor, 288n60, 288n62

McKenna, Steven R., 108, 301n153, 317n272, 317–318n273, 318n274

McKim, Anne, 281n20, 284–285n39, 285n43