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Cover -- Devotion To The Name Of Jesus In Medieval English Literature, C.1100-c.1530 -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List Of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Analytic Overview -- The Development Of The Devotion To The Name Of Jesus: Broader Religious Contexts -- Fourteenth- And Fifteenth-century Cultural Contexts -- Pan-european And English Perspectives: A Brief Survey -- Chapter Overview -- Chapter One: Jesus And His Name: The Emergence Of A New Devotional Attitude -- Bernard And The Invention Of The Devotion In The West Biblical And Early Christian Antecedents -- The Anselmian Contribution: The Meditatio Ad Concitandum Timorem -- Conclusion -- Chapter Twot: He Dulcis Iesu Memoria Tradition And The Devotion To The Name Of Jesus -- The Latin Dulcis Iesu Memoria -- Latin, Anglo-norman, And Middle English Adaptations Of Dulcis Iesu Memoria -- The Second Council Of Lyon (1274) And Its Aftermath -- Guibert Of Tournai's Sermones De Nomine Iesu (de Laude Melliflui Nominis Domini Nostri) -- Thirteenth-century Manifestations Of The Devotion To The Name Of Jesus In England -- Conclusion Chapter Three: The Name And Spiritual Song-anglo-norman Lyrics, Richard Rolle, And The Fourteenth-century Tradition -- Anglo-norman Adaptations -- Middle English Versions Of Dulcis Iesu Memoria -- Richard Rolle, The Name Of Jesus And Heavenly Song: The Latin Writings -- Rolle's Legacy: Middle English Writings -- Analogues To Rolle's Devotion To The Name: Henry Suso -- Walter Hilton On The Use Of The Name Of Jesus -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four: Rollean Afterlives: Fifteenth-century Texts, Compilations, And Manuscripts -- The Oleum Effusum Compilation -- Manuscript Evidence Richard Methley And The Devotion To The Name -- Para-liturgical Evidence -- The Name Of Jesus In Devotional Compilations: The Chastising Of God's Children And Disce Mori -- Pore Caitif: Orthodoxy And Lollard Interests In The Holy Name -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five: The Book Of Margery Kempe, Ele