Writing identity in medieval and early modern Scotland

Writing identity in medieval and early modern Scotland / edited by Eva von Contzen and Luuk Houwen.

Since its founding, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Volume 41 is a special issue which showcases twelve articles featured at the International Conference on Medieval a...

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Other Authors: Contzen, Eva von (Editor), Houwen, L. A. J. R. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
©2016
Series:Medievalia et humanistica ; new ser., no. 41.
Subjects:
Scottish literature > History and criticism.
National characteristics, Scottish, in literature.
Scots in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Scots in literature
National characteristics, Scottish, in literature
Scottish literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Editorial Note; Articles for Future Volumes; Preface; Introduction. Writing Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland; Books beyond Borders. Fresh Findings on Boethius's Reception in Twelfth-Century Scotland; Malcolm, Margaret, Macbeth, and the Miller: Rhetoric and the Re-Shaping of History in Wyntoun's Original Chronicle; "Ego Sum Margarita Olim Scotorum Regina": St. Margaret and the Idea of the Scottish Nation in Walter Bower's Scotichronicon; Scotland, France, and the Auld Alliance: Was There a Burgundian Alternative?
  • The Use of Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics in the Eneados of Gavin DouglasGavin Douglas's Humanist Identity; "A Mass of Incoherencies": John Mair, William Caxton, and the Creation of British History in Early Sixteenth-Century Scotland; Writing Which, and Whose, Identity? The Challenges of the Gude and Godlie Ballatis; "Let all zour verse be Literall": Innovation and Identity in Scottish Alliterative Verse; Writing Sonnets as a Scoto-Britane: Scottish Sonnets, the Union of the Crowns, and Negotiations of Identity.

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