A Companion to Medieval Scottish Poetry

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84384-247-7
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 345 g

A full survey and overview of the extraordinary flowering of Scottish poetry in the middle ages.

The poetry written in Scotland between the late fourteenth and the early years of the sixteenth century is exceptionally rich and varied. The contributions collected here, by leading specialists in the field, provide a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the material. There are introductions to the literary culture of late medieval Scotland and its historical context; separate studies of the writings of James I, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, and Sir David Lyndsay; and essays devoted to general themes or genres, including the historiographical tradition, religious verse, romances, and the legendary history of Alexander the Great. A final chapter provides bibliographical guidance on the major advances in the criticism and scholarly study of this poetry during the last thirty years.

Contributors: PRISCILLA BAWCUTT, JULIA BOFFEY, JOHN BURROW, ELIZABETH EWAN, R. JAMES GOLDSTEIN, DOUGLAS GRAY, JANET HADLEY WILLIAMS, R. J. LYALL, ANNE MCKIMM, JOANNA MARTIN, RHIANNON PURDIE, NICOLA ROYAN.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bawcutt, Priscilla

Hadley Williams, Janet

Weitere Mitwirkende

McKim, Anne

Gray, Douglas

Hadley Williams, Janet

Martin, Joanna

Burrow, John A.

Boffey, Julia

Royan, Nicola

Bawcutt, Priscilla

Goldstein, R James

Lyall, Roderick J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Poets `of this Natioun' - Priscilla Bawcutt and Janet Hadley Williams
Late Medieval Scotland: a Study in Contrasts -
`I will my proces hald': Making Sense of Scottish Lives and the Desire for History in Barbour, Wyntoun and Blind Hary - R James Goldstein
`Mark your Meroure be Me': Richard Holland's Buke of the Howlat - Nicola Royan
The Kingis Quair and other poems of Bodleian Library MS Arch. Selden. B. 24 - Julia Boffey
`Of Wisdome and of Guide Governance': Sir Gilbert Hay and The Buik of King Alexander the Conquerour - Joanna Martin
Henryson's Morall Fabillis: Structure and Meaning - Roderick J Lyall
Orpheus and Eurydice and The Testament of Cresseid: Robert Henryson's `fine poetical way' - Anne McKim
Religious Verse in Medieval Scotland - Priscilla Bawcutt
William Dunbar - John A. Burrow
Gavin Douglas - Douglas Gray
Medieval Romance in Scotland -
Sir David Lyndsay - Janet Hadley Williams
Guide to Further Reading
Index of Manuscripts
General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bawcutt, Priscilla
PRISCILLA BAWCUTT, honorary professor at the University of Liverpool, was one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars of Older Scots. She edited The Poems of William Dunbar for the Association of Scottlish Literary Studies (1997/8), and The Shorter Poems of Gavin Douglas for the Scottish Text Society (revised 2003); she has written very widely and deeply on all aspects of Older Scots literature, includingher foundational study, Gavin Douglas (1976). IAN C. CUNNINGHAM, former Keeper of Manuscripts at the National Library of Scotland, has published extensively on Latin and Older Scots manuscripts, and edited and translated Theophrastus

Boffey, Julia
JULIA BOFFEY is Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London.

Bawcutt, Priscilla
PRISCILLA BAWCUTT, honorary professor at the University of Liverpool, was one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars of Older Scots. She edited The Poems of William Dunbar for the Association of Scottlish Literary Studies (1997/8), and The Shorter Poems of Gavin Douglas for the Scottish Text Society (revised 2003); she has written very widely and deeply on all aspects of Older Scots literature, includingher foundational study, Gavin Douglas (1976). IAN C. CUNNINGHAM, former Keeper of Manuscripts at the National Library of Scotland, has published extensively on Latin and Older Scots manuscripts, and edited and translated Theophrastus