Revisiting the Medieval North of England

Anita Auer is Professor in English Linguistics at the University of Lausanne. Denis Renevey is Professor in Medieval English Language and Literature at the University of Lausanne. Camille Marshall is a doctoral candidate and assistant in Medieval English Literature at the University of Lausanne. Tino Oudesluijs is a doctoral candidate and assistant in English Linguistics at the University of Lausanne.

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
Bibliography
Index