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Offers fresh and ground-breaking research into themes of good self- and public governance in medieval Scottish and English literature.
List of contents
- Foreword
- Introduction: 'He Rewlis Weill That Weill Him Self Can Gyd'
- Part I
- 1: Emily Wingfield: 'Qwhen Alexander Our Kynge Was Dede': Kingship and Good Governance in Andrew of Wytoun's Original Chronicle'
- 2: Kylie Murray: Appetite, Desire, and Excess in Bower's Scotichronicon and Older Scots Poetry
- 3: Rebecca Marsland: Lament For The Dead In Fifteenth-Century Scotland
- 4: W.H.E. Sweet: The 'Vther Quair' as the Troy Book: The Influence of Lydgate on Henryson's Testament of Cresseid
- 5: Anne Kelly: Richard Holland's Buke of the Howlat and Chaucer
- 6: Kate McClune: 'He Was But A Yong Man': Age, Kingship, and Arthur
- 7: Anna McHugh: The Aberdeen Articles: A Twice-Told Tale
- 8: Melissa Coll-Smith: Royal Devotion and Cultic Promotion: James IV's Dedications to Saints
- Part II
- 9: Nicola Royan: The Noble Identity of Gavin Douglas
- 10: Thomas Rutlege: Reading and Writing History: John Bellenden's Livy
- 11: Ryoko Harikae: 'Daunting' The Isles, Borders, and Highland: Imperial Kingship in John Bellenden's Chronicles of Scotland and the Mar Lodge Translation
- 12: Joanna Martin: William Lauder: The Speculum Principis in the Sixteenth Century
- 13: Sarah Couper: Informed Choice: The Knowing Morality of John Rolland's Court of Venus
- 14: Tricia McElroy: The Uses of Genre and Gender in 'The Dialogue of the Twa Wyfeis'
- 15: Sebastiaan Verweij: King Darius in the Archives
- Afterword
About the author
Joanna Martin is Associate Professor of Middle English and Older Scots at the University of Nottingham, having been a Darby Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford. She has published on aspects of Middle English writing, including that of Gower and Lydgate, on Anglo-Scottish literary relations, and on Older Scots literary and book history. She is the author of Kingship and Love in Scottish Poetry (Ashgate, 2008) and The Maitland Quarto: A New Edition of Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys Library MS 1408, published for the Scottish Text Society in 2015.
Emily Wingfield is a Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham. Previously she held a Junior Research Fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge, and completed her D.Phil. on 'The Manuscripts and Print Contexts of Older Scots Romance' at Oxford. She has published widely on Older Scots romance and book history, and completed a monograph on The Trojan Legend in Medieval Scottish Literature (D.S. Brewer, 2014).
Summary
Offers fresh and ground-breaking research into themes of good self- and public governance in medieval Scottish and English literature.
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This excellent collection of essays showcases the work of some of the leading early and mid-career scholars of Older Scots literature and culture ... turn with pleasure to the careful scholarship of the essays in Premodern Scotland.
