The Making of the Scottish Dream-Vision

• Autore: Murray Kylie
• Pubblicazione: London : , : British Academy, , 2026; ©2026
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (311 pages)
• Soggetto non controllato: Scotland; medieval; dream-vision; manuscript culture; nationhood; identity; poetry; chronicle; Latin; Scots; literary tradition; mystical tradition; theological background; intellectual culture; history of ideas; classical reception; Chaucer; James I of Scotland; Walter Bower; Hary's Wallace; prophecy; William Dunbar; Gavin Douglas; Scotichronicon
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transcriptions and References -- Introduction -- Understanding Dream and Vision in the Middle Ages -- Approaching Scotland as a Case Study -- 1 Prior Engagements: Scotland's Early Reception of Dream and Vision -- Historical Writing and Identities in Latin and Scots -- Devotional Texts and Contexts -- French Texts and Contexts -- English Texts and Contexts -- 2 The Kingis Quair and Its Manuscript Context -- The Kingis Quair: a New Scottish Dream-Vision -- The Kingis Quair's Reception and Authorship -- Troilus and Criseyde in Scotland -- 3 Bower's Scotichronicon and the Prose‑Latin Dream-Vision -- Mystical Visions: St Katherine of Alexandria and St Bridget of Sweden -- Visions of Royal Scottish Sanctity: St Margaret, Queen of Scotlandand St Waltheof, Abbot of Melrose -- Visions as Reflection and Refraction of the Speculum Principis -- Advice to All: Clerical Visions of Appetite and Greed -- From Prose-Latin to Older Scots Verse: the Reception of Bower's Dream-Vision -- Appendix: Table of Dream-VisionNarrativesin the Scotichronicon -- 4 Prophetic and Nationalist Dream-Visions -- Thomas of Erceldoune and Envisioning the Scottish 'History of the Future' -- Wallace's Nightmare -- Wallace's Dream-Visionof Scotland -- 'Worthy Even of Enemy Praise': Wallace's Heavenly Ascent and Its Afterlives -- 5 Rethinking Scotland's AmatoryDream-Vision -- Lancelot of the Laik: Dream-Vision Prologues and Arthurian Guidance -- From Courtly Love to Courtly Injustice: Henryson's Testament of Cresseid -- From Love at First Sight to Loss at Last Sight: Henryson's Testament of Cresseid and Orpheus and Eurydice -- Anti- or Extra-Amatory? The Dream-Visionof Douglas's Palice of Honour -- The Colourful Anti-AmatoryDream-Vision: Dunbar's Goldyn Targe. ; The Cultural Reception of Dunbar's Courtly Dream-VisionsinEarly 16th-Century Scotland -- Epilogue: 'Mak vpwark heirof and cloyss our buke' -- Bibliography -- Index -- Index of Manuscripts.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Making of the Scottish Dream-Vision considers how Scotland responded to the dream-vision, Medieval Europe's most widely known literary form and precursor of the novel.Studies abound in Continental and English dream-vision writing: Dante's Divine Comedy, France's Romance of the Rose, and a host of English dream-visions, especially by Chaucer.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Making of the Scottish Dream-Vision
• ISBN: 1-80596-629-4; 1-80596-628-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911069024703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: British Academy Monographs