Premodern Scotland : literature and governance 1420-1587 : essays for Sally Mapstone /

This book brings together original essays by a group of international scholars to offer fresh and ground-breaking research into the "Advice to Princes" tradition and related themes of good self- and public governance on Oder Scots literature, and in Latin literature composed in Scotland in...

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Main Authors:	Martin, Joanna, 1976- (Author, Editor), Wingfield, Emily, 1985- (Author, Editor)
Other Authors:	Mapstone, Sally (honouree.)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Subjects:	Scottish literature > To 1700 > History and criticism. Scottish literature > Political aspects. Dialect literature, Scottish > History and criticism. Dialect literature, Scottish > Political aspects. Scotland > Intellectual life. Scotland > History > 15th century. Scotland > History > 16th century. Littérature écossaise > Jusqu'à 1700 > Histoire et critique. Littérature écossaise > Aspect politique. Littérature dialectale écossaise > Histoire et critique. Littérature dialectale écossaise > Aspect politique. Écosse > Vie intellectuelle. Écosse > Histoire > 15e siècle. Écosse > Histoire > 16e siècle. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Intellectual life Dialect literature, Scottish Scottish literature Scotland To 1700 Electronic books. History Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: "He Rewlis Weill that Weill him self can Gyd" / Joanna Martin and Emily Wingfield
1. "Qwhen Alexander our Kynge was Dede": kingship and good governance in Andrew of Wyntoun's Original Chronicle / Emily Wingfield
2. Appetite, desire, and excess in Bower's Scotichronicon and older Scots poetry / Kylie Murray
3. Lament for the dead in fifteenth-century Scotland / Rebecca Marsland
4. The "Vther Quair" as the Troy Book: the influence of Lydgate on Henryson's Testament of Cresseid / W.H.E. Sweet
5. Richard Holland's Buke of the Howlat: an alternative view / Anne Kelly
6. "He was by a young man": age, kingship, and Arthur / Kate McClune
7. The Aberdeen Articles: a twice-told tale / Anna McHugh
8. Royal devotion and cultic promotion: James IV's Dedications to Saints / Melissa Coll-Smith
9. The noble identity of Gavin Douglas / Nicola Royan
10. Reading and writing history: John Bellenden's Livy / Thomas Rutledge
11. "Daunting" the Isles, borders, and highlands: imperial kingship in John Bellenden's Chronicles of Scotland and the Mar Lodge Translation / Ryoko Harikae
12. William Lauder: the Speculum Principis in the sixteenth-century / Joanna Martin
13. Informed choice: the knowing morality of John Rolland's Court of Venus / Sarah Couper
14. The uses of genre and gender in "The Dialogue of the Twa Wyfeis" / Tricia A. McElroy
15. King Darius in the Archives / Sebastiaan Verweij
Afterword: Sally-- an irreverent memoir (and bibliography) / Ralph Hanna.