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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823927103321

Titolo

Medievalia et humanistica New series . Number 41 : studies in medieval and Renaissance culture / / Reinhold F. Glei [and four others], editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, England : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4422-5796-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Collana

Medievalia et Humanistica Series

Disciplina

940.1

Soggetti

Civilization, Medieval

Renaissance

European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism

European literature - Renaissance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Special issue writing identity in medieval and early modern Scotland."

Nota di contenuto

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

James Melville and the "Releife of the longing soule": A Scottish Presbyterian Song of Songs?The Legacy of Scotland's Colonial Schemes: From the 1620s until Now



Sommario/riassunto

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 and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature.