Revisiting the Medieval North of England (eBook)

The book is intended as a contribution to the field of English Medieval Studies across different disciplines, i.e. particularly English philology, linguistics and Medieval literature. The book is aimed at the European and North American market, in particular at academics as well as graduate and postgraduate students. As the anonymous reviewer of the volume pointed out, “The volume will be consulted by researchers in various disciplines, and should be on the reading list of masters programmes in Medieval English studies.”

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