Introduction: Poets `of this Natioun' - Priscilla Bawcutt and Janet
Hadley Williams
Late Medieval Scotland: a Study in Contrasts -
`I will my proces hald': Making Sense of Scottish Lives and the
Desire for History in Barbour, Wyntoun and Blind Hary - R James
Goldstein
`Mark your Meroure be Me': Richard Holland's Buke of the Howlat -
Nicola Royan
The Kingis Quair and other poems of Bodleian Library MS Arch.
Selden. B. 24 - Julia Boffey
`Of Wisdome and of Guide Governance': Sir Gilbert Hay and The Buik
of King Alexander the Conquerour - Joanna Martin
Henryson's Morall Fabillis: Structure and Meaning - Roderick J
Lyall
Orpheus and Eurydice and The Testament of Cresseid: Robert
Henryson's `fine poetical way' - Anne McKim
Religious Verse in Medieval Scotland - Priscilla Bawcutt
William Dunbar - John A. Burrow
Gavin Douglas - Douglas Gray
Medieval Romance in Scotland -
Sir David Lyndsay - Janet Hadley Williams
Guide to Further Reading
Index of Manuscripts
General Index
PRISCILLA BAWCUTT, honorary professor at the University of Liverpool, was one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars of Older Scots. She edited The Poems of William Dunbar for the Association of Scottlish Literary Studies (1997/8), and The Shorter Poems of Gavin Douglas for the Scottish Text Society (revised 2003); she has written very widely and deeply on all aspects of Older Scots literature, includingher foundational study, Gavin Douglas (1976). IAN C. CUNNINGHAM, former Keeper of Manuscripts at the National Library of Scotland, has published extensively on Latin and Older Scots manuscripts, and edited and translated Theophrastus JULIA BOFFEY is Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London. PRISCILLA BAWCUTT, honorary professor at the University of Liverpool, was one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars of Older Scots. She edited The Poems of William Dunbar for the Association of Scottlish Literary Studies (1997/8), and The Shorter Poems of Gavin Douglas for the Scottish Text Society (revised 2003); she has written very widely and deeply on all aspects of Older Scots literature, includingher foundational study, Gavin Douglas (1976). IAN C. CUNNINGHAM, former Keeper of Manuscripts at the National Library of Scotland, has published extensively on Latin and Older Scots manuscripts, and edited and translated Theophrastus
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*INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SCOTTISH STUDIES*
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*SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW*
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Illustrated with copious references, it should prove especially
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