Abbreviations

The following abbreviations occur throughout the book.

EETSEarly English Text Society. Oxford University Press.
LWLuther’s Works, ed. Harold J. Grimm. General editors, Jaroslav Pelikan and Helmut T. Lehman. 55 vols. Philadelphia: Muehlenberg and Fortress, and St. Louis: Concordia, 1955–1986.
MEDMiddle English Dictionary, ed. Hans Kurath. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1953–2001.
OEDThe Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 1989, and updates.
STSumma Theologica. Complete English edition. 5 vols. Trans. and ed. the English Dominican Province. Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria Press, 1984.

Unless otherwise noted, all Shakespeare quotations are from The Riverside Shakespeare, 2nd ed., ed. G. Blakemore Evans. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.

In Middle English quotations the thorn has been modernized to th.