We are not aware of any competing volumes. As the reviewer pointed out, "e;I know of no competing texts. Such as have been published either deal with individual disciplines (such as Katie Wales' book, which is largely linguistic) or sub-areas of the north (such as Helen Jewell's on the North-east)."e; Nevertheless, here are selected book titles from different disciplines that may be seen as complementary to the current volume.Helen M. Jewell, The North-South Divide: The Origin of Northern Consciousness in England (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994)Dave Russell, Looking North: Northern England and the National Imagination (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004). R. H. Baker and Mark Billinge (eds), Geographies of England: The North-South Divide, Material and Imagined, Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)Katie Wales, Northern English: A Social and Cultural History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)

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.