Revisiting the Medieval North of England: Interdisciplinary Approaches (Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages)

The focus of this volume is the north of England and its regions in the late medieval period. Concentrating on the north as a center of manuscript production, dissemination and reception, __Revisiting the Medieval North of England__ aims to illustrate the fluidity of boundaries and communication, and the resulting links to different geographical regions. Cover 1 Title Page 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Series Editors' Preface 8 Acknowledgements 10 List of Figures 12 Notes on Contributors 14 Setting the Scene: Interdisciplinary Perspectiveson the Medieval North of England 18 1: Northern Spirituality Travels South: Rolle's Middle English Encomium Oleum Effusum Nomen Tuumin Lincoln College Library, MS 91, and Dublin, Trinity College, MS 155: Denis Renevey 30 2: Mechtild of Hackeborn and Cecily Neville's Devotional Reading: Images of the Heart in Fifteenth-Century England: Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa 42 3: Langage o northrin lede: Northern Middle English as a Written Medium: Merja Stenroos 56 4: A Pystille Made to a Cristene Frende: A Translation of Walter Hilton's Epistola ad Quemdam Seculo Renunciare Volentem in a Northern Anthology, London, British Library, MS Additional 33971: Marleen Cré 76 5: 'So to interpose a little ease': Northern Hermit-lit: Ralph Hanna 90 6: The Children of the York Plays: Richard Beadle 108 7: Linguistic Regionalism in the York Corpus Christi Plays: Anita Auer 128 8: The Hermit and the Sailor: Readings of Scandinavia in North-East English Hagiography: Christiania Whitehead 140 9: Towards a Nuanced History of Early English Spelling: Old Northumbrian Witnesses and Northern Orthography: Marcelle Cole 148 Bibliography 166 Index 184 Back Cover 190 The medieval north of England has been underexplored to date, and this volume may be seen as an invitation for further exploration. It brings together scholars with shared interests in language, literature, culture, history and manuscript studies, viewed from different disciplinary perspectives such as English philology, historical linguistics and medieval literature. While many scholars have thus far been debating the dividing lines between north and south as well as between north, Midlands and south, the contributors to this volume are interested in texts produced in the north, the providence of which has been determined by way of affiliation to religious and civic writing centres including the important monastic houses in the north (such as Durham, York and the Yorkshire Cistercian houses). Most of the contributions grow out of recent and ongoing research projects that touch upon different aspects of the north of England in the medieval period. Concentrating on the north as a centre of manuscript production, dissemination and reception, this volume aims also at illustrating the fluidity of boundaries and communication, and the resulting links to different geographical regions. The focus of this volume is the north of England and its regions in the late medieval period. Concentrating on the north as a centre of manuscript production, dissemination and reception, 'Revisiting the Medieval North of England' illustrates the fluidity of boundaries and communication, and the resulting links to different geographical regions The focus of this volume is the north of England and its regions in the late medieval period. Concentrating on the north as a centre of manuscript production, dissemination and reception, this volume aims to illustrate the fluidity of boundaries and communication, and the resulting links to different geographical regions.