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‘Qwhen Alexander Our Kynge Was Dede’::Kingship and good governance in Andrew of Wytoun’s original chronicle
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Introduction::'He Rewlis Weill that Weill himn self can Gyd'
No full textThis introductory chapter prefaces the subsequent collection of essays, dedicated to Professor Sally Mapstone. After an overview of the critical field and outline of the importance of kingship and Advice to Princes in the Older Scots literary tradition, the main body of the chapter first examines the centrality of advisory discourse in the poetry of Robert Henryson and William Dunbar, before analysing key scenes of royal reading and writing in Barbour’s Bruce, James I’s Kingis Quair, Walter Bower’s Scotichronicon, and John Shirley’s fulle lamentable cronicle of þe deþe and fals murdre of James Steward, last Kinge of Scottes. It explores both the signal relationship between themes of reading, writing, and rule, and the way in which such acts are transformed into self-consciously ethical activities. The second half of the chapter summarizes and draws together the essays that follow.</p
Wingfield (Emily) [monogr.]
No full textScotland’s Royal Women and European Literary Culture, 1424-1587, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024, 448 p., 9 ill. en noir et blanc, 37 en coul. (« Texts and Transitions », 14). [Notice d’éd. Il n’existait aucune étude au format d’un livre sur les activités littéraires des membres féminins d’une même famille au fil du temps et peu de chose sur les femmes de la famille royale d’Écosse en comparaison avec celles d’Angleterre ou du continent. Adoptant la perspective diachronique qui faisait défaut, ce li..
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