Premodern Scotland: Literature and Governance 1420-1587 brings
together original essays by a group of international scholars to
offer fresh and ground-breaking research into the 'advice to
princes' tradition and related themes of good self- and public
governance in Older Scots literature, and in Latin literature
composed in Scotland in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and early
seventeenth centuries. The volume brings to the fore texts both
from and about the royal court in a variety of genres, including
satire, tragedy, complaint, dream vision, chronicle, epic, romance,
and devotional and didactic treatise, and considers texts composed
for noble readers and for a wider readership able to access printed
material. The writers and texts studied include Bower's
Scotichronicon, Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, and Gavin
Douglas's Eneados. Lesser known authors and texts also receive
much-needed critical attention, and include Richard Holland's, The
Buke of the Howlat, chronicles by Andrew of Wyntoun, Hector Boece,
and John Bellenden, and poetry by sixteenth-century writers such as
Robert Sempill, John Rolland of Dalkeith, and William Lauder.
Non-literary texts, such as the Parliamentary 'Aberdeen Articles'
further deepen the discussion of the volume's theme. Writing from
south of the Border, which provoked creative responses in Scots
authors, and which were themselves inflected by the idea of
Scotland and its literature, are also considered and include the
Troy Book by John Lydgate, and Malory's Le Morte Darthur. With a
focus on historical and material context, contributors explore the
ways in which these texts engage with notions of the self and with
advisory subjects both specific to particular Stewart monarchs and
of more general political applicability in Scotland in the late
medieval and early modern periods.
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