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RELIGION AND CULTURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Revisiting the Medieval North of England
Series Editors
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)
RELIGION AND CULTURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Revisiting the Medieval North of England
INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES
edited by
ANITA AUER, DENIS RENEVEY, CAMILLE MARSHALL AND TINO OUDESLUIJS -->

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C ONTENTS
Series Editors Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction:
Setting the Scene: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Medieval North of England
Anita Auer, Denis Renevey, Camille Marshall and Tino Oudesluijs
1 Northern Spirituality Travels South: Rolle s Middle English Encomium Oleum Effusum Nomen Tuum in Lincoln College Library, MS 91, and Dublin, Trinity College, MS 155
Denis Renevey
2 Mechtild of Hackeborn and Cecily Neville s Devotional Reading: Images of the Heart in Fifteenth-Century England
Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa
3 Langage o northrin lede : Northern Middle English as a Written Medium
Merja Stenroos
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
5 So to interpose a little ease : Northern Hermit-lit
Ralph Hanna
6 The Children of the York Plays
Richard Beadle
7 Linguistic Regionalism in the York Corpus Christi Plays
Anita Auer
8 The Hermit and the Sailor: Readings of Scandinavia in North-East English Hagiography
Christiania Whitehead
9 Towards a Nuanced History of Early English Spelling: Old Northumbrian Witnesses and Northern Orthography
Marcelle Cole
Notes
Appendix
Bibliography
S ERIES E DITORS P REFACE
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 significantly contributed to the shaping of medieval culture. However, it also gives attention to studies dealing with works that reflect 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 field of religion and culture, we also want to explore further the roles played by women as authors, readers and owners of books, thereby defining them more precisely as actors in the cultural field. 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 confinement 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 reflect this diversity, as we believe that, as a collection of outstanding contributions, it offers a more subtle representation of a period that is marked by paradoxes and contradictions and which necessarily reflects diversity and difference, however difficult it may sometimes have proved for medieval culture to accept these notions.
A CKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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 specific topic from their different angles of expertise. The workshop was financially supported by an Agora grant (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific 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 financial 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 field, this volume would not exist.
Anita Auer, Denis Renevey, Camille Marshall and Tino Oudesluijs Université de Lausanne
L IST OF F IGURES
Figure 3.1 Northern texts in LALME: genre distribution
Figure 3.2 The chronological development of sal(l), -lk and q- in which, -and in the present participle and <a> spellings of both
Figure 3.3 The chronological development of present 3 sg indicative -s, <ai/ay> spellings of they and <a> spellings of know and hold
N OTES ON C ONTRIBUTORS
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 fields 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 socio-economic 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 Morphosyntax and Lexis of Old Northumbrian . Selected important publications include A native origin for present-day English they , their , them , Diachronica 35:2 (2018); Pronominal anaphoric strategies in the West Saxon dialect of Old English , English Language and Linguistics , 21:2 (2017); and the monograph Old Northumbrian Verbal Morphosyntax and the (Northern) Subject Rule (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2014).
Marleen Cré teaches English at the Université Saint-Louis in Brussels. Her research focuses