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The Buik of the Croniclis of Scotland; or, A Metrical Version of the History of Hector Boece (Paperback)
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The Buik of the Croniclis of Scotland; or, A Metrical Version of the History of Hector Boece (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Rolls, Volume 2
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Hector Boece (c.1465 1536) was a Scottish humanist historian,
educated in Dundee and Paris, where he became a friend of Erasmus.
His Latin Scotorum Historia, covering the period from 330 BCE until
1437, was published in 1527, and rapidly translated into French and
Scots. It was continued by several authors, indicating that it was
accepted as a definitive account of the formation of Scottish
national identity, though, inevitably, many of the earlier parts
rely on legend and tradition rather than on historical sources.
Dedicated to James V, it is biased in favour of his ancestors, and,
via Holinshed, was the source for Shakespeare's Macbeth. This verse
translation was completed for James V by the courtier William
Stewart in 1535, but not published until the Rolls Series edition
by W. B. Turnbull in 1858. Volume 2 takes the story up to the
eleventh century, and includes the story of Macbeth.
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