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The language and meaning of the compilation is of great significance. All three piece were written in Middle English, a language that was spoken largely between 1066 and some time in the 1470s. Middle English is distinct from contemporary English in a variety of important respects. It also includes numerous French words that are more obvious imports from Norman rule. Furthermore, the language functions in a completely different cultural context, in a period of time when people were deeply and profoundly religious and superstitious, believing not only in the whole gamut of Christian theological beliefs but in miscellaneous doctrines about the saints within Christian history and about wh