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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812766603321

Titolo

History, literature, and music in Scotland, 700-1560 / / edited by R. Andrew McDonald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002

©2002

ISBN

1-4426-7579-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Disciplina

941.1

Soggetti

English literature - Scottish authors - History and criticism

Scottish literature - To 1700 - History and criticism

Music - Scotland - History and criticism

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Scotland History To 1603

Scotland In literature

Scotland Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline -- Scottish Monarchs, c. 500�1542 -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Medieval Scotland and the New Millennium -- 1. The Scottish Gaze -- 2. Earls and Saints: Early Christianity in Norse Orkney and the Legend of Magnus Erlendsson -- 3. 'Soldiers Most Unfortunate': Gaelic and Scoto-Norse Opponents of the Canmore Dynasty, c. 1100�c. 1230 -- 4. 'Off quhat nacioun art thow?' National Identity in Blind Hary's Wallace -- 5. Carnival at Court and Dunbar in the Underworld

6. 'Many Injurious Words': Defamation and Gender in Late Medieval Scotland7. Tudor Family Politics in Early Sixteenth-Century Scotland -- 8. Commeationis et affinitatis gratia: Medieval Musical Relations between Scotland and Ireland -- Notes on Contributors



Sommario/riassunto

McDonald brings together contributions from scholars working in different disciplines but with a common interest in this history and society of Scotland between AD 700 and AD 1560.