Book Characters for EWL
Characters within the books in EWL's library
Summary: 1,094 Characters.
Aaron
Abdon
- The travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir. John Mandeville (son of Hillel)
Abednego
- The travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir. John Mandeville (of the fiery furnace, "Azariah")
Abel
Abraham
Abrimelech
Absalom
- The travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir. John Mandeville (son of King David)
Absolon, of Chaucer's Miller's Tale
Acca
- Vergil's Aeneid: The Aeneid: An Epic Poem of Rome by Vergil (Camilla's companion)
Acelin of Gascony
- Song of Roland by Patricia Terry (Count)
Achilles
- Confessio amantis by John Gower
- The divine comedy by Dante Alighieri
- Metamorphoses by Ovid
- Vergil's Aeneid: The Aeneid: An Epic Poem of Rome by Vergil
- 2: Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri (mentioned)
Acrasia
Acteon
Ada Byron Lovelace
Ada I of Caria
Adam Moleyns, Bishop of Chichester
- Who's who in late medieval England, (1272-1485) : being the third volume in the who's who in British history series by M. A. Hicks
Adeodatus
Adrian
Aelfric
- The literature of the Anglo-Saxons by George Kumler Anderson
- Sweet's Anglo-Saxon reader in prose and verse by Henry Sweet
Aeneas
- Confessio amantis by John Gower
- The history of the Kings of Britain by of Monmouth Geoffrey, Bishop of St. Asaph
- Metamorphoses by Ovid
- The riverside Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir. John Mandeville
- Vergil's Aeneid: The Aeneid: An Epic Poem of Rome by Vergil
- The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer
Aeolus
AEthelbald, King of Wessex
AEthelberht, King of Wessex
Aethelred the Unready
- The beginnings of English society by Dorothy Whitelock
- The Saxon and Norman kings by Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke
Aethelwulf, King of Wessex
Agamemnon
Agathon
Agenor
Agis IV
Agnes of Poitou
Agravayn
Ajax
Ajax the Lesser
Alan Turing
Alanus ab Insulis
Alanus de Insulis
Albert Einstein
Albinus
Alceone
Alcestis
Alcibiades
- The collected dialogues of Plato, including the letters by Plato.
- Plutarch's lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch.
Alcuin
Alcuin of York
- The Cambridge companion to Old English literature by Malcolm Godden
- The literature of medieval England by D. W. Robertson
Aldheim
Aldhelm, St.
Aldus Pius Manutius
- Five hundred years of printing by S. H. Steinberg (1449/1452-1515)
Alexander the Great
- Plutarch's lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch.
- The travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir. John Mandeville
Alfred the Great
- Alfred the Great : Asser's Life of King Alfred and other contemporary sources by John Asser
- The beginnings of English society by Dorothy Whitelock
- The Cambridge companion to Old English literature by Malcolm Godden
- The literature of the Anglo-Saxons by George Kumler Anderson
- The Owl and the Nightingale (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
- The Saxon and Norman kings by Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke
- Sweet's Anglo-Saxon reader in prose and verse by Henry Sweet
- From Alfred to Henry III, 871-1272 by Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke (King of Wessex and later King of the Anglo-Saxons)
Alfred Thompson Eade
Alison, of Chaucer's Miller's Tale
Alma
Alpheus
Alypius
Amans
Ambrose of Milan
Ambrose, 340-397
Ambrosius Aurelianus
- The history of the Kings of Britain by of Monmouth Geoffrey, Bishop of St. Asaph
- Confessions by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. (Aurelius Ambrose, c. 340–397)
- A history of the English Church and people by the Venerable Bede, Saint (Aurelius Ambrose, c. 340–397)
Amerigo Vespucci
Amerrius
Amoret
Anania
Andreas Capellanus
Andrew of St. Victor
Andrew the Apostle
Andromeda
Anelida
Angel Gabriel
Angels
Angharad
- Mabinogion by Gwyn Jones (Angharad Golden-Hand)
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle
Anglo Saxons
- The Anglo-Saxon chronicles by Anne Savage
- The beginnings of English society by Dorothy Whitelock
- Sweet's Anglo-Saxon reader in prose and verse by Henry Sweet
Annas
- The travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir. John Mandeville (high priest)
Anne of Bohemia, Queen Consort of England
- Chaucer: modern essays in criticism by Edward Wagenknecht
- Hochon's Arrow by Paul Strohm
- The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Critical Biography (Blackwell Critical Biographies) by Derek Albert Pearsall
- Richard II by Nigel Saul
Anselm of Canterbury
- The making of the Middle Ages by R. W. Southern (1033-1109)
Anseïs the Proud
Anthony Bek, Bishop of Durham
Antony
Apollo
Apollonius of Tyre
Appelius
Appius
- The physicians's tale by Geoffrey Chaucer (in the Physician's Tale)
Aquinas, Thomas, 1225-1274
- The discarded image : an introduction to Medieval and Renaissance literature by C. S. Lewis
- INTRODUCTION TO ST. THOMAS AQUINAS: The Summa Theologica, The Summa Contra Gentiles. by Anton C. Pegis
Aranrhod
Arawn
- Mabinogion by Gwyn Jones (king of Annwn)
Araxarthen
Archimago
Arcite
Ariadne
- Confessio amantis by John Gower
- Metamorphoses by Ovid
- The riverside Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer
Aristophanes
Aristotle
- Nicomachean ethics by Aristotle.
- The Politics (Penguin Classics) by Aristotle
- The Rhetoric of Aristotle, an Expanded Translation with Supplementary Examples for Students of Compostition and Public Speaking by Lane Cooper
Aristotle, 384-322
- Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris
- The discarded image : an introduction to Medieval and Renaissance literature by C. S. Lewis
- Founders of the Middle Ages by Edward Kennard Rand
- The future of an illusion by Sigmund Freud
- Introduction to Aristotle, the essence of Aristotle's philosophy, Organon, Physics, Ethics on the Soul, Metaphysics, Politics and Poetics by Richard McKeon, edited with general and particular introductions
- INTRODUCTION TO ST. THOMAS AQUINAS: The Summa Theologica, The Summa Contra Gentiles. by Anton C. Pegis
Arnoud d'Audrehem, marshal of France
Artegal
Arthur, King of the Britons
- Early Middle English texts by Bruce Dickins
- English Medieval Romance (Longman Literature in English) by W. R. J. Barron
- Middle English romances : authoritative texts, sources and backgrounds, criticism by Stephen H. A. Shepherd
Asser
- Alfred the Great : Asser's Life of King Alfred and other contemporary sources by John Asser (biographer of Alfred the Great)
- The literature of medieval England by D. W. Robertson (biographer of Alfred the Great)
Astor
Athanasius, c. 296-373
- Misquoting Jesus : the story behind who changed the Bible and why by Bart D. Ehrman
- The travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir. John Mandeville
Athelstan
- The beginnings of English society by Dorothy Whitelock
- Middle English Verse Romances by Donald B. Sands
- The Saxon and Norman kings by Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke
Aton
Aucassin
Augustine of Canterbury
Augustine of Hippo
- Augustine of Hippo; a biography by Peter Brown (Saint, 354-430)
- Confessions by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. (Saint, 354-430)
Augustine of Hippo, 354-430
- Alfred the Great : Asser's Life of King Alfred and other contemporary sources by John Asser
- Chaucer : sources and backgrounds by Robert P. Miller
- Chaucer and the Late Medieval World by Lillian M. Bisson
- Chaucer and the subject of history by Lee Patterson
- Founders of the Middle Ages by Edward Kennard Rand
- INTRODUCTION TO ST. THOMAS AQUINAS: The Summa Theologica, The Summa Contra Gentiles. by Anton C. Pegis
- A preface to Chaucer; studies in medieval perspectives by D. W. Robertson
- The travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir. John Mandeville
Augustus Caesar
Aywan
Aëlroth
Babylan-Chan
Balaam
- The travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir. John Mandeville (son of Beor)
Balacy-Chan
Balak
- The travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir. John Mandeville (king of the Moabites)
Baldwin
Baligant
- Song of Roland by Patricia Terry (Emir)
Balthazar
Bardus
Barnabas
- The travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir. John Mandeville (Levite from Cyprus, "also named Joseph")
Bartholomew Burghersh
Bathsheba
- The travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir. John Mandeville (wife of Uriah the Hittite)
Baucis
Beatrice
Beatrice Portinari
- 2: Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
- Dante Alighieri, his life and works by Paget Jackson Toynbee
- Dante's Paradiso, the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighiri by John D. Sinclair
- The divine comedy by Dante Alighieri
- La Vita Nuova (A Midland Book) by Dante Alighieri
Bede
- The literature of medieval England by D. W. Robertson ('The Venerable', 673-735)
Bede or The Venerable Bede
Bede, 673-735
- Anglo-Saxon Poetry (Everyman's Library (Paper)) by S. A. J. Bradley
- The Cambridge companion to Old English literature by Malcolm Godden
- The literature of the Anglo-Saxons by George Kumler Anderson
- Sweet's Anglo-Saxon reader in prose and verse by Henry Sweet
Bedford Master, manuscript illustrator
Belphoebe
Belshazzar
Bendigeidfran
- Mabinogion by Gwyn Jones (Bendigaidfran, Brân)
Bendochdare
Benjamin Jowett
Benoît de Sainte-Maure
Beor
Beowulf
- Anglo-Saxon Poetry (Everyman's Library (Paper)) by S. A. J. Bradley
- An anthology of Old English poetry by Charles W. Kennedy
- The beginnings of English society by Dorothy Whitelock
- Beowulf by Michael J. Alexander
- Beowulf : the Donaldson translation, backgrounds and sources, criticism by E. Talbot Donaldson
- Beowulf and the fight at Finnsburg by Friedrich Klaeber
- Beowulf Together With Widsith and The Fight at Finnesburg by Benjamin Thorpe
- Beowulf: A Verse Translation into Modern English by Edwin Morgan
- The Cambridge companion to Old English literature by Malcolm Godden
- The literature of the Anglo-Saxons by George Kumler Anderson
- Sweet's Anglo-Saxon reader in prose and verse by Henry Sweet
Beowulf's Dragon
- Anglo-Saxon Poetry (Everyman's Library (Paper)) by S. A. J. Bradley
- Beowulf and the fight at Finnsburg by Friedrich Klaeber
- Beowulf Together With Widsith and The Fight at Finnesburg by Benjamin Thorpe
- Beowulf: A Verse Translation into Modern English by Edwin Morgan
Berenger
Bernard F. Huppè
Bernard of Clairvaux
Bernardo di Chiaravalle
Bernardus Silvester
Bernart de Ventadorn
Bertilak de Hautdesert
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by J. R. R. Tolkien (Bernlak de Hautdesert)
Bertrand du Guesclin
Bertrand H. Bronson
Bertulf
Beryl Rowland
Bisclavaret
Bishop Bawdwyn
Blancandrin
Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster
Blanchefleur
Blodeuedd
Bob Dylan
Bodo
- Medieval people by Eileen Power (8th cent. Frankish peasant)
Boethius
- Alfred the Great : Asser's Life of King Alfred and other contemporary sources by John Asser
- The Canterbury tales by Derek Albert Pearsall
- Chaucer and the subject of history by Lee Patterson
- Companion to Chaucer studies by R
- The consolation of philosophy by Boethius
- Founders of the Middle Ages by Edward Kennard Rand
- Geoffrey Chaucer by Derek Brewer
- The making of the Middle Ages by R. W. Southern
- A preface to Chaucer; studies in medieval perspectives by D. W. Robertson
- Sweet's Anglo-Saxon reader in prose and verse by Henry Sweet
Boniface VIII, Pope
- Edward I (The English Monarchs Series) by Professor Michael Prestwich (Benedetto Caetani, c. 1230 -1303)
Boradin
Borak-Chan
Bors
Braggadocchio
Brammimonde
Brangien
Branwen
- Mabinogion by Gwyn Jones (daughter of Llyr)
Brendan the Navigator
Britomart
Bruce M. Metzger
Brutus
Brân
- Mabinogion by Gwyn Jones (Bendigeidfran)
Buryn-Chan
Busirane
Byrhtferth of Ramsey
Byrhtnoth/Beorhtnoth, Earl of Essex, died at Maldon
Cadeberiz
Cadu-Chan
Caedmon
- Anglo-Saxon Poetry (Everyman's Library (Paper)) by S. A. J. Bradley
- The Cambridge companion to Old English literature by Malcolm Godden
- The literature of the Anglo-Saxons by George Kumler Anderson
- Sweet's Anglo-Saxon reader in prose and verse by Henry Sweet
Cain
Caiphas
Calchas
Calidore
Calkas
Camilla
Canee
The Canon
- Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The riverside Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer
Carle of Carlisle
Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius, ca. 485-ca. 583
Cato
Cato the Younger
Ceix
Celsus, 2nd century
Centurio
Cerdic
Ceres
Cesare Borgia
Chadahay-Chan
Cham
Chan
Changuys
Charlemagne
- The beginnings of English society by Dorothy Whitelock
- Daily life in the world of Charlemagne : with expanded footnotes by Pierre Riché
- Romance of the Rose by Guillaume De Lorris
- Six Middle English Romances (Everyman's Library (Paper)) by Maldwyn Mills
- The travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir. John Mandeville
- Two lives of Charlemagne by Lewis G. M. Thorpe
- Song of Roland by Patricia Terry (Emperor)
Charles A. Owen, Jr.
Charles Babbage
Charles Darwin [Charles Robert: 1809-1882]
Charles Muscatine
Charles Onions [C. T. Onions]
Charles the Bad, King of Navarre
Charles the Good, Count of Flanders
Charles V, King of France
- Edward, Prince of Wales and Aquitaine: A Biography of the Black Prince by Richard Barber
- The Reign of Edward III by W.M. Ormrod
Charles VI, King of France
Charles VII, King of France
Chaucer the Pilgrim
- Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The riverside Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chauntecleer
Chretien de Troyes
Christine de Pizan
- The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Critical Biography (Blackwell Critical Biographies) by Derek Albert Pearsall
Chrysostom, John, ca. 345-407
Chrétien de Troyes
- The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Roberta L. Krueger
- English Medieval Romance (Longman Literature in English) by W. R. J. Barron
Chrétien of Troyes
Chydydo
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC
- Founders of the Middle Ages by Edward Kennard Rand
- Plutarch's lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch.
- Textual Scholarship: An Introduction (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) by David C. Greetham
Cid Campeador 'El Cid'
- The Medieval World by Friedrich Heer (ref p.18)
Cigfa
- Mabinogion by Gwyn Jones (Kicua)
Clare of Assisi
Claude Garamond
Claude Shannon
Claudius
- The physicians's tale by Geoffrey Chaucer (in the Physician's Tale)
Claudius I, Emperor of Rome
Cleopatra VII
The Clerk
- Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Canterbury tales : nine tales and the general prologue : authoritative text, sources and backgrounds, criticism by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The riverside Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer
Cliges
Cnut the Great
- The beginnings of English society by Dorothy Whitelock
- One hundred Middle English lyrics by Robert David Stevick
- The Saxon and Norman kings by Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke
- From Alfred to Henry III, 871-1272 by Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke (King of Denmark, Norway, and England)
Cobyla Chan
Colin Clout
Coll
Collins, Anthony, 1676-1729
Collucio Salutati
Constantine
The Cook
- Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The riverside Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer
Cordelia
Cordynes
Coriolanus
Cornide
Cosimo the Magnificent
- History of Florence and of the affairs of Italy, from the earliest times to the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent by Niccolò Machiavelli
Cresseid
Cressida
- The Poems and Fables. Ed. H Harvey Wood. by Robert Henryson
- The riverside Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The story of Troilus by Robert Kay Gordon
- Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer
Criseyde
- Chaucer: modern essays in criticism by Edward Wagenknecht
- Speaking of Chaucer, by Ethelbert Talbot. Donaldson
- Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer