Scripting the nation : court poetry and the authority of history in late medieval Scotland /

"Examines the rise of Scottish nationalism through poets at the court of James IV-William Dunbar, Walter Kennedy, and Gavin Douglas-who appropriated and subverted English literary models to create a nationalist discourse that resisted English cultural and political hegemony, defining what is me...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Terrell, Katherine H. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2021]
Series:	Interventions: new studies in medieval culture.
Subjects:	Dunbar, William, > 1460?-1520? > Criticism and interpretation. Kennedy, Walter, > approximately 1460-approximately 1508 > Criticism and interpretation. Douglas, Gawin, > 1474?-1522 > Criticism and interpretation. Douglas, Gawin, > 1474?-1522. Dunbar, William, > 1460?-1520? Kennedy, Walter, > approximately 1460-approximately 1508. English poetry > Scottish authors > History and criticism. Scottish poetry > To 1700 > History and criticism. National characteristics, Scottish, in literature. Nationalism and literature. Courts and courtiers in literature. Authority in literature. English poetry > Scottish authors. Scottish poetry. To 1700 Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

On the uses of the past: diplomacy, genealogy, and historiography
Subversive histories: strategies of identity in Scottish historiography
"Ane worthier genology": translatio imperii and the divine imperative of history
Legacies of nationalist historiography and the founding of Scottish poetry
Literary genealogy and national identity in Dunbar and Kennedy
From courtly love to court poetics: Dunbar's petitions and the Scottish transformation of tradition
"Writtin in the langage of Scottis natioun": the political poetry of Douglas's Eneados.