1. Religious and Didactic Dialogues

1.1. Supernatural Figures

1.1.1. Heavenly

• Dialogues between the Virgin and Christ [1]
• Dialogues between Christ (God) and Man [2]
• William Lichfield's Complaint of God or Christ [3]
• The Orchard of Syon [4]
• A Disputison bi-twene Childe Jesu and Maistres of the Law of Jewus [5]
• The Dispute between Mary and the Cross [6]
• Virgin and Gabriel: Annunciation Dialogues [7]
• Lamentation of Mary to Saint Bernard [8]
• Virgin and Man [9]
• Poet and Messenger [10]
• Prose Dialogue between Soul and Angel [11]
• Dialogue between Saint Peter the Dominican and the Crucifix [12]

1.1.2. Demonic

• Dialogue between Four Demons and Four Angels [13]
• Of the Seven Sages [14]
• Dialogue between the Devil and a Friend [15]
• A Disputison bitwene a God Man and the Deuel [16]
• Inter Diabolus et Virgo [17]

1.2. Abstractions

1.2.1. Death

• The Debate between the Body and the Soul [18]
• Disputacion betwyx the Body and Wormes [19]
• Dialogue between the Saved and the Damned [20]
• Dialogues Involving Death and Man [21]
• The Gast of Gy [22]
• Dialogue between Poet and Bird [23]
• The Nichtingall and the Kynd Cheild [24]
• Dialogue between Emperor Antiochenus and his Dead Father [25]

1.2.2. Other than Death

• Vices and Virtues [26]
• Dialogue between a Sinner and Mercy: Mercy Passeth Righteousness [27]
• Debates between the Heart and the Eye [28]
• Conflict of Wit and Will [29]
• Dialogues from Leconfield Manor House [30]
• Debate of the Carpenter's Tools [31]
• Dialogue between Understanding and Faith [32]
• Adversite and Resoun [33]
• L'Esperaunce and other Chartier Pieces [34]

1.3. Human Beings Alone

• A Disputasioun by-twene a Christenemon and a Jew [35]
• Dives et Pauper [36]
• Penitent and Confessor [37]
• Dialogue between a Secular and a Friar [38]
• Dialogue between Monk, Nun, and Brother Superior [39]
• Dialoges inter Militem et Clericum [40]
• Mede and Much Thank: Dialogue between a Soldier and a Courtier [41]
• Layman's Complaint and Friar's Answer
• A Mumming of the Seven Philosophers [42]
• Dialogue on True Nobility [43]
• Cicero's Of Old Age and Of Friendship [44]

2. Debates on Love and Women

2.1. Bird-Debates

• The Owl and the Nightingale [45]
• The Thrush and the Nightingale [46]
• The Book of Cupid or The Cuckoo and the Nightingale
  (?Clanvowe) [47]
• The Clerk and the Nightingale I [48]
• The Clerk and the Nightingale II [49]

2.2. Abstractions and Deities

• Complaint against Hope [50]
• Holly and Ivy Poems [51]

2.3. Human Beings

2.3.1. Lover and Mistress

• Nou Sprinkes the Spray [52]
• The Meeting in the Wood [53]
• De Clerico et Puella (Pastourelle) [54]
• Little Pretty Mopsy [55]
• Charles d'Orléans: Lover and Venus [56]
• Charles d'Orléans: Lover and Mistress [57]
• De Amico ad Amicam and Responcio [58]
• Palamon and Ercyte [59]
• Two satirical Verse-epistles [60]
• The Nut-brown Maid [61]

2.3.2. Other than Lover and Mistress

• Say Me, Viit in the Broom [62]
• Dialogue between a Clerk and a Husbandman [63]
• Ballad of a Tyrannical Husband [64]
• Lover and Friend [65]
• The Fermorak and his Dochter [66]
• An Interlocucyon with an Argument betwyxt Man and Woman [67]

3. Catechisms on Science and Biblical Lore

• Dialogues of Solomon [68]
• Questiones by-twene the Mayster of Oxenford and His Clerk [69]
• Adrian and Ritheus [70]
• Ypotis [71]
• Elucidarium [72]
• Lucidus and Dubius [73]
• Occupacyon and Ydelness [74]
• Sydrac and Boctus [75]
• Dialogue between Rhasis and His Son Merlin [76]

(Francis Lee Utley. "Dialogues, Debates, and Catechisms," in: Albert E. Hartung (Ed.). A Manual of Writings in Middle English 1050-1500. Vol. 3. New Haven, Conn. 1972:669-745.)

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