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RELIGION AND CULTURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Revisiting the Medieval North of England
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Denis Renevey (Université de Lausanne)
Diane Watt (University of Surrey)
Editorial Board
Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University of London)
Jean- Claude Schmitt (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Fiona Somerset (Duke University)
Christiania Whitehead (University of Warwick)
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Revisiting the Medieval
North of England

INTERDISCIPLINARy APPROACHES
edited by
ANITA AUER, DENIS RENEvEy, CAMILLE MARSHALL
AND TINO OUDESLUIJS
UNIvERSITy OF WALES PRESS
2019
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Series Editors’ Preface vii
Acknowledgements ix
List of Figures xi
Notes on Contributors xiii
Introduction:
Setting the Scene: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the
Medieval North of England
Anita Auer, Denis Renevey, Camille Marshall and Tino Oudesluijs 1
1 Northern Spirituality Travels South: Rolle’s Middle English Encomium Oleum
Efusum Nomen T uum in Lincoln College Library, MS 91, and
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 155
Denis Renevey 13
2 Mechtild of Hackeborn and Cecily Neville’s Devotional Reading: Images of the Heart in Fifteenth-Century EnglandNaoë Kukita Yoshikawa 25
3 Langage o northrin lede: Northern Middle English as a Written MediumMerja Stenroos 39
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 59
5 ‘So to interpose a little ease’: Northern Hermit-litRalph Hanna 73
6The Children of the y ork PlaysRichard Beadle 91
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7Linguistic Regionalism in the york Corpus Christi PlaysAnita Auer 111
8The Hermit and the Sailor: Readings of Scandinavia in North-EastEnglish HagiographyChristiania Whitehead123
9Towards a Nuanced History of Early English Spelling: Old Northumbrian
Witnesses and Northern Orthography
Marcelle Cole 131
Bibliography149
Index167
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Series Editors’ Preface
Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages aims to explore the interface between medieval
religion and culture, with as broad an understanding of those terms as possible. It puts to
the forefront studies which engage with works that signifcantly contributed to the
shaping of medieval culture. However, it also gives attention to studies dealing with
works that refect and highlight aspects of medieval culture that have been neglected in
the past by scholars of the medieval disciplines. For example, devotional works and the
practice they infer illuminate our understanding of the medieval subject and its culture
in remarkable ways, while studies of the material space designed and inhabited by
medieval subjects yield new evidence on the period and the people who shaped it and
lived in it. In the larger feld of religion and culture, we also want to explore further the
roles played by women as authors, readers and owners of books, thereby defning them
more precisely as actors in the cultural feld. The series as a whole investigates the
European Middle Ages, from c.500 to c.1500. Our aim is to explore medieval religion
and culture with the tools belonging to such disciplines as, among others, art history,
philosophy, theology, history, musicology, the history of medicine, and literature. In
particular, we would like to promote interdisciplinary studies, as we believe strongly
that our modern understanding of the term applies fascinatingly well to a cultural period
marked by a less tight confnement and categorization of its disciplines than the modern
period. However, our only criterion is academic excellence, with the belief that the use
of a large diversity of critical tools and theoretical approaches enables a deeper
understanding of medieval culture. We want the series to refect this diversity, as we
believe that, as a collection of outstanding contributions, it ofers a more subtle
representation of a period that is marked by paradoxes and contradictions and which
necessarily refects diversity and diference, however difcult it may sometimes have
proved for medieval culture to accept these notions.
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Acknowledgements
The present volume originates from the international workshop ‘Interdisciplinary
perspectives on the North of England in the later Middle Ages’, which took place on 7–8
September 2015 at the University of Lausanne. The aim of this event was to bring
together researchers from a variety of disciplines who all carried out seminal research
on the North of England in the Middle Ages and to have them start a dialogue on this
specifc topic from their diferent angles of expertise. The workshop was fnancially
supported by an Agora grant (Netherlands Organisation for Scientifc Research (NWO)).
We would like to thank all colleagues who attended and contributed to the workshop
in 2015 for the fruitful cross-disciplinary discussions. Our gratitude extends to Sarah
Lewis (University of Wales Press) for her continued support throughout the production
process of this volume. We would also like to thank the Commission des publications
(Faculté des Lettres, UNIL) for their fnancial support in the production of this volume.
Finally, we want to thank the authors for their invaluable contributions to this volume,
as well as the reviewers. Without you and your expertise in the feld, this volume would
not exist.
Anita Auer, Denis Renevey, Camille Marshall and Tino Oudesluijs
Université de Lausanne
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Figure 3.1 Northern texts in LALME: genre distribution 47
Figure 3.2 The chronological development of sal(l), -lk and q- in which,
-and in the present participle and <a> spellings of both 52
Figure 3.3 The chronological development of present 3 sg indicative -s,
<ai/ay> spellings of they and <a> spellings of know and hold 52
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Notes on Contributors
Anita Auer is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Lausanne,
Switzerland. She is co-editor of the Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics. Anita Auer
has published widely in the felds of language variation and change, and language
standardisation and corpus linguistics. She has a keen interest in interdisciplinary
research, notably the correlation between language variation and change, and
socioeconomic history and textual history. In recent years, she has co-edited a number of
books as for instance the volume Letter Writing and Language Change (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2015) with Daniel Schreier and Richard J. Watts; the
volume Linguistics and Literary History: In Honour of Sylvia Adamson (Amsterdam:
John Benjamins, 2016) with Victorina González-Díaz, Jane Hodson and Violeta
Sotirova; and the volume Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics
(Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2017) with Tanja Säily, Arja Nurmi and Minna
Palander-Collin.
Richard Beadle is Professor of Medieval English Language and Palaeography,
University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St John’s College. He is the Early English Text
Society editor of the york plays, The York Plays: A Critical Edition of the York Corpus
Christi Play as recorded in British Library Additional MS 35290, vol. 1, The Text; vol. 2,
Introduction, Commentary, Glossary; Early English Text Society, Supplementary Series
23, 26 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009–13). He is co-editor of Manuscript
Miscellanies c. 1450–1700, English Manuscript Studies 1100–1700, vol. 16 (London:
The British Library, 2011), and The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre,
second edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Marcelle Cole is Assistant Professor in English Historical Linguistics at Utrecht
University. She has participated in several research projects funded by the Spanish
Ministry of Science and Technology that focus on Old Northumbrian including ‘The
Lindisfarne Gloss in its Dialectal Context: A Comparison between Lindisfarne and the
Gloss to the Durham Collectar’ and ‘The Lindisfarne Gospels Gloss: New Perspectives
on the