Index: E

• Eadmerus Cantuariensis
  • De S. Anselmi similitudinibus
    • 102 (PL 159.666): A.10.12
• Ecclesiastica historia
  • lib.7: F.4.6*
  • lib.10 (not identified by Houlihan): P.12.30*
• Episcopus quidam
  • Statutes: C.6.30*
• Eusebius
  • Homiliae
    • 40 ad monachos: R.5.32*
• Eusebius Caesariensis
  • Historia ecclesiastica seu tripartita: O.6.19*
• Exemplum: D.1.2*, D.1.3*, D.1.4*, D.1.4*, D.1.5*, D.1.10*, D.1.10*, D.1.13*, D.1.15*, D.1.18*, D.1.22*, D.1.26*, I.9.28*, I.9.36*, O.6.57*, V.1.8*, V.1.9*, V.5.14*, V.12.23*
  • Check
    • Dying religious rejects devil’s statement that he is not among the number of the saved.: D.2.15*
    • On the day Thomas of Canterbury died, 3033 died in the world: 3000 went to Hell, 30 to purgatory, 3 to heaven.: M.11.56*
  • check Tubach: L.7.25*
    • Ass buried in cemetery: D.4.14*
    • Devil habitually appeared as Ethiope, accused of unconfessed sins: D.2.6*
    • exemplum of city that expelled all sexagenarians, and was then saved from enemies by the advice of one hidden grandfather: R.5.44*
    • Jordan of Saxony joined Dominicans because he had earlier dissuaded someone from joining: R.5.7*
    • Son at school in Paris embarassed by father when he brings money: E.5.4*
    • Tirelinseu, chamberlain = sloth: A.23.18*
    • Woman greases judge’s palm: I.9.21*
  • Count’s son wishes to translate father’s body, finds toad in grave: M.11.121*
  • Ex.
    • 69b: A.24.12
  • False modesty of office-holder: H.6.3*
  • Jester obtains Fortuna’s cloak: G.2.30*
  • Judge’s skull found in foundation of St. Paul’s, London: I.13.8*
  • Monk listens to bird for 300 years: G.1.15*
  • not Tubach: I.9.13, P.7.39, P.7.39, P.7.50, P.7.53
    • Abbot Abraham warns boy to shun the world: A.12.25
    • Abbot Anthony compares penitent apostate monk to shipwrecked sailor: to be helped, not drowned: C.12.11
    • Abbot Nathyra (Nitira) becomes more abstemious after becoming bishop: C.2.7
    • Abbot Saba wins lawsuit, overruled by counsellor, who is subsequently punished by emperor: C.11.37
    • Adultress in Paris set between husband and lover to choose: chooses lover: A.20.6
    • After battle in field, crops on just party’s side unharmed: B.2.45
    • After holiday, boy asks father “where is yesterday?”: C.7.8
    • Alexander, hearing of paradise, weeps to have only one world: A.27.30
    • Alexander to Darius: the world cannot be ruled by two thrones: A.27.30
    • Anaxagoras says that a faithful pauper is happier than a rich man: B.1.4
    • Archbishop Edmund pledges his soul that despairing sinner will be saved if he confesses: C.6.41
    • Aristotle made a clerk by practice and made chaste by abstinence: A.4.6
    • Armoured knight cannot harm or be harmed: A.24.12
    • Athenians put Thimogoras to death for flattering Darius: A.15.26
    • Atilius called from his plough to be emperor: A.1.1
    • Beggar asks first “pro amore Dei,” then “pro amore Marie,” then “pro amore meo”: A.20.8
    • Beggar in Chartres saves a farthing every day for lodgings: one day has no farthing, inn burns down: B.4.17
    • Bird becomes king by flying highest, by tricking eagle: A.25.30
    • Bishop touches nun, devil expects deed to follow sign: C.10.22
    • Blind man played “scailes”: threw stick, broke heads of by-standers: A.15.24
    • Brass and clay pot dispute, clay pot loses whether strikes or struck: A.14.38
    • Brother disguises self to free brother from foreign prison: A.13.6
    • Caliph of Baldac too avaricious to hire soldiers to defend city: A.27.22
    • Candidate in episcopal election criticised for timidity and boldness: A.10.6
    • Capitol saved from Belinus and Brennus by geese: A.26.23
    • Carthaginians spare estates of Roman general to sow dissension: B.2.3
    • Charlemagne confessed and took communion before battle: B.2.23
    • Charlemagne has vision of his father and councillors in hell: C.11.39
    • Clovis’ hermit son puts the Teutons to flight by prayer: B.2.43
    • Constantine refuses to bath in boys’ blood as advised by priests and doctors: C.11.46
    • Converted necromancer Hunfredus sees demons distracting monks, among them Scavaldus of Jerusalem, who has moved to Westminster: A.14.5
    • Cornelius Scipio expels prostitutes from captured city in Spain: B.2.18
    • Corrupt juror in England tries to seduce young juror, saying everyone behaves thus, without loss; contradicted by voice: A.12.35
    • Counselor lies to king: A.15.6
    • Criminal in Attrebatum tortured and condemned to death, as he confesses his wounds heal, so he is released: C.6.47
    • Dead woman appears to confessor, damned because she was not contrite: C.5.24
    • Deathbed vision of demons attacking with boundary-pole he had moved: A.12.56
    • Debate between eagle and peacock over feathers: A.25.32
    • Demon got “capa et capusium,” didn’t try for more: A.9.1
    • Demon reveals that more are damned for avarice than for lust: A.27.55
    • Devil seen during sermon: steals shame to make people sin, returns it during sermon to prevent them confessing: C.6.50
    • Diligent merchant surpasses negligent one: A.8.18
    • Doctor treats king’s son only on surface, to both their peril: A.7.19
    • Drunkard says he does not drink, but only tastes: C.10.17
    • Dying lawyer loses right arm to devil, while Virgin holds left hand: A.14.44
    • Dying man feels priest’s hand anointing him, thinks he is after his purse: A.27.19
    • Dying man offers all he has for one more day of life: A.12.47
    • Dying man refuses to extend hand to be anointed, because he is holding the key to his money-chest: A.27.19
    • Dying miser cries out to his treasure: A.27.40
    • Dying miser offers treasure to his soul to stay, then curses it for leaving: A.27.49
    • Emperor gives horse to advisor who says subjects’ goods belong to him, other advisor says “quia dixi equum, perdidi equum.”: A.15.3
    • Exorcism of woman ineffective until demon reveals that she has concealed one sin in confession: C.6.14
    • Flight of Icarus: A.25.20
    • Fool who invoked St. Nicholas to save him from drowning, but wouldn’t help self: A.8.10
    • Fortune’s cloak gives jongleur all that he wants, when it disappears he is back in his hut: A.27.62
    • Fox, accused by wolf, advises lion to wear wolfskin: A.11.8
    • Fox asks cock to pluck sty from his eye, accuses him, and loses both eyes for his deceipt: A.11.9
    • Fox condemned to hang asks to be led past the henhouse: C.8.19
    • Fugitive from court invited to return, friend tells fable of the stag tricked into returning to lion’s court, fox pretends he has no heart: C.14.26
    • Ghost of lawyer torments partner, shot with arrow: A.14.50
    • Giants pile up mountains to attack Saturn, are buried under them by a lightning bolt: A.25.24
    • Glutton captured in war, learns to fast in prison: C.8.2
    • Greyhound protected by its owner, has two ribs broken by blind man from whom it stole food: A.11.1
    • Gyges king of Lydia asks Apollo if anyone is happier than him, answer is “Agloys”: B.1.5
    • Hannibal escapes city by depositing lead in temple: A.27.58
    • Hermit wants to have done more before he dies: P.7.12
  • Not Tubach
    • Hermits on Welsh island suffer plague of mice when there is discord among them: C.9.2
  • not Tubach
    • Holy man contemplates crucifixion, has scars on his palms from his fingernails: C.17.30
    • Husband wonders who will have his goods, hears voice: “Troylardus” (a lad in his kitchen, whom his wife marries after his death): A.12.15, A.27.12
    • Incestuous couple married and diuorced on same day: bishop declares power of sacrament to driue out demon of lust: A.17.5
    • Indulgence for crusader worth more than all his goods: C.17.7
    • Jew protects self with sign of cross, demon says the vessel is empty but sealed: C.17.21
    • Jews besieged in Jerusalem swallow their gold, Romans kill them all to retrieve it: A.27.44
    • Julian the Apostate dispells demons with the sign of the cross, necromancers convince him that they fled not for fear but for disgust: C.17.21
    • King Aethelwold reproued for adultery by Boniface, bishop of Mainz: A.17.8
    • King captures city by asking only that the citizens expel their twelve wise governors: C.4.16
    • King Edward went on pilgrimages and consulted jurists before going to war: B.2.23
    • King has three ministers who will go to hell for him: A.12.44
    • King of France besieges castle, says Agnus Dei three times, walls collapse: B.2.41
    • King of Medes always defeated by Persians, for three reasons: old enmity, love of own profit, counsel of youths: B.2.55
    • King sent commission through land to make restitution of goods unjustly acquired by his ancestors: A.12.58
    • Knight becomes monk, tormented by devil in form of horse: A.12.37
    • Knight learns that he will die that day, admits that he does not loue his wife: A.17.7
    • Knight wears jar as helmet to protect eyes: A.24.12
    • Landlord has all gifts recorded, not to repay them but to claim them as customary payments, so fool refuses to extinguish threatening fire: C.8.37
    • Lawyer boasts of fee, companion received more to be silent: A.14.13
    • Lawyer dreams of jousting hoards at Westminster, is dipped in cauldron to the belt, suffers impotence: A.14.49
    • Lawyer receives extra calf, jealous partner refuses to proceed, saying calf has him by the throat: A.14.15
    • Lawyer said to have golden tongue, but after death a toad is found in his mouth: A.14.46
    • Lawyer sees dead partner tormented with firey animals: A.14.44
    • Man brings two candles to church, one for the image of God and one for the devil: A.20.9
    • Man desires to be so holy that he can eat without pleasure, and when he fails he falls into despair: C.7.14
    • Man desiring to enter religious order is discouraged by friends because he has no book, responds that he has the book of conscience: C.7.17
    • Man does not confess all his sins, for fear of never eating again: C.6.51
    • Man enriched by three daughters: providence, abstinence, patience.: A.4.8
    • Man fell and broke leg, but found needle: A.15.6
    • Man refuses to confess before sea-journey, confesses all when in danger: C.6.67
    • Man refuses to hear bad news: his clothes are on fire: A.26.34
    • Man resisted lust by thinking of Christ’s honoring human nature through incarnation: A.13.15
    • Man’s arm broken by falling crucifix, refuses to return to church: A.16.6
    • Man sentenced to death, neglected by three friends whom he had given inheritance, possessions, feasts.: A.21.6
    • Man teaches his 12 sons concord by binding 12 sticks and trying to break them: C.9.3
    • Man would rather suffer torments of hell than seek reconciliation with enemy, but when given glimpse of hell runs to make peace.: C.9.6
    • Many Jews remain in Babylon rather than follow Zorobabel to land of promise: A.13.8
    • Marcus Marcellinus weeps at the treasure in captured Syracuse: C.12.10
    • Minstrels likened to demons (including sacristan of hell i.e. the demon Pokerellus): C.15.1
    • Miser hoards grain to sell in famine, hangs self from granary when prices do not rise: A.27.50
    • Miser in Chƒlons hoards grain to sell in famine, cuts throat when prices do not rise: A.27.50
    • Monk sees man with burden he cannot lift, others with beam unable to enter temple: A.27.31
    • Monk wishes to see devil in his true form, goes mad: A.23.6
    • Monks sleep when Abbot Cassianus preaches, wake when he tells joke: A.26.11
    • Nobleman, dissolute, blaims master for not chastising him when young: C.11.36
    • Novice hesitates to be tonsured: P.7.10
    • Pagan king converted by Christian seneschal after seeing happy Christian couple: B.1.3
    • Parents of demoniac ordered by Ammon/Amus to restore stolen cow: A.12.18
    • Partridges ask hawk to protect them against kites: A.14.6
    • Paulinus of Nola gives self in exchange for captured Christians, works as gardener: A.13.7
    • Philosopher offended mother with a word, thence forward refused to speak (E1, not L): C.5.9
    • Philosopher wrote book in praise of fly that woke him in danger from snake: A.8.9
    • Ploughman agrees to hide fox from hunters, but points with his finger and eye: C.6.14
    • Plutarch writes book for Trajan: C.11.3
    • Poleynus lectured by Zenocrates on temperance: A.26.36
    • Preacher interrupted by dance slashes drum, is attacked: C.15.10
    • Priest refuses to confess lord: A.7.20
    • Proud son of king and poor woman exalted by father’s noble blood, should be humbled by mother’s lowly birth: B.4.16
    • Rich man received all from God except generosity, would be more obliged for that than for the rest: A.27.54
    • Rich man says acquisition and good conscience are incompatible: A.12.2
    • Rich man says he owns only the money he has given to God, which cannot be taken away: A.27.57
    • Romans banish misers, even Canillus who had defeated the Vegetiani: A.27.64
    • Romans refuse to ransom captives from Hannibal: A.24.10
    • Romans wrote to Alexander: “si veneris, invenies”: A.13.28
    • Saint’s blessing at usurer’s table causes ill-gotten goods to disappear: nothing left: A.12.12
    • Scholars’ servant mixes requested dishes together: A.26.15
    • Shepherd kills she-wolf and cubs for whom wolf killed sheep: A.12.24
    • Simon Magus’ ascent, aided by demons: A.25.33
    • Sinner asks heart where he is going, answer is hell, so he reforms: C.10.16
    • Sinner curses correcting friar.: A.26.21
    • Sinner listens to sermons to think how he will reform: A.26.31
    • Soldiers overshadowed by Persian arrows fight better in the shade: B.2.25
    • Soldiers threatened with death for desertion achieve victory: B.2.28
    • Someone used to say that if he could have another God, it would be money: A.27.40
    • Someone used to say that when soul leaves body, God and Devil race for it: A.23.27
    • St. Louis saw demons on the bank when a ship sank: A.23.16
    • St. Martin’s bird boasts that he can hold up the sky, but he flies away in terror when a leaf falls: C.17.12
    • Sultan slays 12000 minstrels: B.2.18
    • Tender novice prefers hardships of religion to those of hell: P.7.32
    • Theologian bishop promotes lawyers, not theologians: explains a dog is not fed for itself, but to protect the sheepfold: A.14.30
    • Thief has magic die: A.19.14
    • Threat of swords answered with years: C.4.14
    • Three crusaders captured, two pray to return home, third says lived sinful life there: C.17.15
    • Titus weeps for the suffering of the people of besieged Jerusalem: C.12.10
    • Triphon scatters gold before pursuing army of Antiochus: A.27.58
    • Turtle spends half year climbing tree, then falls: A.25.26
    • Ulysses blocks ears against the syren’s song: C.17.20
    • Ungrateful son has vision of dead father coming to kill him: A.3.19
    • Usurer in Metz refuses to go to sermon, because he was almost converted once before: A.26.20
    • Usurer prefers advise of lawyer to priest: C.11.50
    • Vision of damned souls forced by demons across narrow bridge: A.2.4
    • Vision of giant entering courtroom at night with club, message to judge: A.14.48
    • Vision of sinful lord carrying his lenient chaplain in hell : A.7.19
    • Weak but pure knight outfights strong but sinful one: B.2.39
    • When Gyldo, count of Africa tries to usurp from Theodosius’ sons, his brother defeats him through prayer: C.17.18
    • When invalid sees doctor allow him whatever he wants, he knows he will die: A.4.3
    • When litigant says would rather die than make peace, Apollonius says “fiat”: he dies that night and is eaten by beasts: C.9.5
    • Woman in Paris cannot remember words of sermon, but loves God and detests sin: A.26.30
  • Prisoner in jail of Archbishop of Reims murders companions to receive their rations: I.6.2*
  • Speculum laicorum
    • 14: A.12.17
    • 23: A.14.5
    • 314 bis: A.15.19
    • 421b (?): A.15.29
    • 441: A.17.14
    • 579a: A.12.54
  • Tubach
    • 17: A.12.10
    • 91: A.3.3
    • 96: A.24.11
    • 148 (?): A.27.30
    • 192: B.4.10
    • 196: C.16.3
    • 198: A.21.12
    • 242 (var.): C.5.22
    • 245 (var.): A.22.9
    • 261: C.16.11
    • 295: A.17.9
    • 302 (var): A.12.4
    • 304: A.15.2
    • 339: A.24.15
    • 345 (?): C.17.14
    • 354: B.2.21
    • 453: A.14.4
    • 501: A.15.32
    • 522: A.21.20
    • 541 var query: Augustus, learning that he was burdened by debts, refused to sleep on a comfortable pillow: A.8.12
    • 610: P.7.51
    • 676: B.2.23
    • 684: A.3.3
    • 687 (var): C.2.9
    • 690: C.12.9
    • 738 (var.): C.6.43
    • 768: A.12.11
    • 806: A.27.15
    • 811: C.11.38
    • 925 (var): C.6.41
    • 965: A.21.17
    • 1034: A.13.25
    • 1053 (var): A.12.51
    • 1166 (?): C.5.23
    • 1177 (var): C.6.25
    • 1184a4 query: Anchoress on sickbed lusts after passerby, is damned for not confessing: C.6.53
    • 1188a4: C.6.53
    • 1189 (var): C.6.47
    • 1192 (var): C.6.66
    • 1200: C.6.43
    • 1201 (var.): C.6.4
    • 1217: A.27.44
    • 1218: C.17.6
    • 1289: C.12.11
    • 1360: A.12.36
    • 1373 (var.): C.17.19
    • 1420 (var): C.15.10
    • 1450: B.4.11
    • 1464a: B.2.42
    • 1473: A.27.41
    • 1475.B.5: A.12.30
    • 1512(?): A.12.34
    • 1554 (var): C.6.44
    • 1675: A.15.27
    • 1690: A.25.19
    • 1695: C.10.10
    • 1699: A.27.14
    • 1760: P.7.28
    • 1832: A.25.29
    • 1833: C.11.42
    • 1976 (check): A.26.8
    • 2020 (?): A.15.13
    • 2045 (var): A.23.7
    • 2083 (var.): B.2.31
    • 2108 (var): C.6.3
    • 2206b: A.21.31
    • 2208: A.21.10
    • 2215 (part 2): A.21.11
    • 2216: A.21.7
    • 2254: A.25.11
    • 2279 (var.): C.14.16
    • 2324 (var): A.20.11
    • 2330: C.14.16
    • 2391: A.20.13
    • 2407: A.21.5
    • 2416 (var): C.6.58
    • 2432: A.24.2
    • 2473 (?): A.4.7
    • 2505: A.14.47
    • 2530: C.17.31
    • 2766: C.10.12
    • 2795: A.13.10
    • 2823: A.12.20
    • 2830: C.15.4
    • 2851: A.14.5
    • 2859: I.9.36
    • 2888: C.17.22
    • 2891 var.: A.3.10
    • 2896: A.8.17
    • 2900 ?: C.16.28
    • 2928: C.14.27
    • 2990: A.14.22
    • 2991 (var): A.14.46
    • 2998: A.14.4
    • 3033(?): C.11.46
    • 3095: C.3.6
    • 3132: A.27.63
    • 3167 (var): C.6.45
    • 3206 (var): P.7.17
    • 3207: A.26.35
    • 3235 (?): A.7.20
    • 3310 (var.): A.27.18
    • 3329 var: C.15.10
    • 3343: A.12.21
    • 3392: C.10.16
    • 3400: A.12.17
    • 3452: A.26.10
    • 3488: A.3.19
    • 3490: C.3.6
    • 3497: C.3.6
    • 3552: C.17.26
    • 3635 (var.): A.26.32
    • 3646: A.8.10
    • 3656 (cf.): A.15.8
    • 3680: P.7.33
    • 3745a: B.4.8
    • 3802: C.17.7
    • 3804: C.17.7
    • 3827: C.10.15
    • 3830 (check Berlioz): C.8.5*
    • 3879: A.27.13
    • 3903: B.4.13
    • 4002: P.7.30
    • 4091: C.11.34
    • 4160 (?): P.7.49
    • 4161: C.10.14
    • 4200: A.3.8
    • 4214: A.26.37
    • 4252: A.17.13
    • 4418(?): C.11.41
    • 4421: C.5.24
    • 4442: A.8.14
    • 4490: C.17.8
    • 4495 (var): A.26.40
    • 4532 (var): A.12.33
    • 4540 var: A.23.26, A.23.27
    • 4575: C.6.41
    • 4620: C.6.9
    • 4635: A.12.55
    • 4696: A.17.12
    • 4699: C.4.13, S.3.12
    • 4744b: C.3.5
    • 4771: A.15.29
    • 4773: C.17.18
    • 4787: A.21.26
    • 4838: P.7.38
    • 4851 var: C.6.52
    • 4888: A.17.14
    • 4889 (var): A.27.19
    • 4902 (var): C.6.44
    • 4903 (var): C.6.42
    • 4905 (var): A.14.45, A.14.45
    • 4927: A.26.35
    • 4947: A.12.4
    • 4967: A.27.62
    • 4975 (var): A.12.8
    • 4993: C.8.7, P.7.37
    • 5027: A.12.54
    • 5039 (var): A.12.32
    • 5058 var: C.15.10
    • 5080 (var): C.6.34
    • 5095: C.7.10
    • 5095 (var.): A.27.59
    • 5148 (var.): C.5.23
    • 5180 (var): C.5.20
    • 5220: B.1.5
    • 5228: A.12.50
    • 5324 (var.): C.10.13
    • 5325: A.21.27
    • 5334: A.12.45
    • 5357: C.4.16
    • 5398: A.15.19
  • Tubach 1477 (check)
    • Comes Matisconenis taken by devil with big black horse: R.1.32*