Image and abstraction: Six Middle English religious lyrics

abstract allegorical aungels Bede bien Cain Carmelites Cassiodorus castle-image Chaucer chivalric metaphor Christ clene commentary Deguileville Deguileville's Deus devil Ecclesia Edi beo thu Ego dormio emotional English lyric English religious lyric enim expression fact ffor friar Geoffrey Chaucer grace hath hayward heaven Heavenly City herte Hettich Hrabanus Maurus Hugo of St Ibid imagery imaginative insight Incarnation Jhesu lines liturgy Llanthony Priory loue lufe luna luue Luue-Ron Marbod Mary Mary's mayde means medieval mercy Middle English religious Missal moon mystical natural images neuer Passion material penitence Peter Lombard Piers Plowman poem poet poet's poetic poetry prayer Prymer Psalm quae Quar quia quod reference Richard Rolle Rolle Rolle's Rolls series Sarum shal sicut sinners sins sloth Solomon's temple sonn soule spiritual stanza structure suggests swete templum theological ther thorns thought-cluster tion traditional image verse Vincent of Beauvais Virgin Woolf