The manuscript containing the works of this author is named for its position as the tenth book on the top shelf near a bust of a Roman emperor: the Cotton Nero A X.
The manuscript containing the works of this author is named for its position as the tenth book on the top shelf near a bust of a Roman emperor: the Cotton Nero A X. This author's best known work ends with the motto "Evil to him who evil thinks, " leading some scholars to believe it might have been written for the Order of the Garter. One of his works is a homily retelling various evils eradicated in the Old Testament, while another uses the example of Jonah's impulsiveness as the opposite of the title virtue. Besides "Cleanness" and "Patience," an elegy depicting mourning of a little girl and the speaker's hope to see her in New Jerusalem is also attributed to him. Named for his assumed authorship of that allegorical elegy, FTP, name this unknown Medieval author also thought to have written "Gawain and the Green Knight."
The manuscript containing the works of this author is named for its position as the tenth book on the top shelf near a bust of a Roman emperor: the Cotton Nero A X.
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