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Title Fresche fontanis : studies in the culture of medieval and early modern Scotland / edited by Janet Hadley Williams and J. Derrick McClure.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 506 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Contents "This is myn awin ymagynacioun": The judgment of Paris and the influence of Medieval faculty psychology on The kingis quair / Elizabeth Elliott -- "The stock that I am a branch of": patrons and kin of Gilbert Hay / Michael Brown -- The influence of Lydgate and his Isopes fabules on Henryson's Morall fabillis / W.H.E. Sweet -- Literality and aurality in the texts of Henryson's Fables and Caxton's The history of Reynard the fox: audience construction of meaning related to reception of the texts / Julian Good -- Orpheus and Eurydice disenchanted?: Henryson's hellish fairy romance / Sarah Dunnigan -- Reading fabliaux: Le povre clerc and The freiris of Berwik / William Calin -- The thewis off gudwomen: female advice in Lancelot of the laik and The buik of King Alexander the conquerour / Emily Wingfield -- "Methink it grete skill": conciliatory chivalry in three fifteenth-century Scottish romances / Anna Caughey -- Editing William Dunbar: some afterthoughts on the decade 1998-2008 / Priscilla Bawcutt -- The tua mariit wemen and the wedo: final fling of the heroice line / J. Derrick McClure -- From chronicle to litergy: Scottish sources of the legend of St. Margaret, Queen of Scotland / Melissa Coll-Smith -- "Gely wyth tharmys of Scotland England": word, image and performance at the marriage of James IV and Margaret Tudor / Sarah Carpenter -- The book of the Dean of Lismore: the literary perspective / William Gillies -- Kingship and imperial ideas in the Chronicles of Scotland / Ryoko Harikae -- Sovereignty, Scottishness and royal authority in Caimbeul poetry of the sixteenth century / Wilson McLeod -- Experience and the courteour: reading epistemological revolution in a sixteenth-century text / Juanita Feros Ruys -- "His guidis and geir": the inventory of the estate of Sir David Lyndsay / Janet Hadley Williams -- Spectatorship in Scotland / John J. McGavin -- Medical advice for the masses?: Scotland's first printed vernacular medical work / Karen Jillings -- The presentation of the family in Maitland writings / Joanna M. Martin -- John Stewart's Roland furiovs / Kate McClune -- Machiavelli at the court of King James VI / Morna R. Fleming -- Montgomerie's solsequium and The mindes melodie / Jamie Reid Baxter -- Found in the forest: the missing leaves of Alexander Craig's The pilgrime and heremite / Michael R.J. Spiller -- "Quasi sibyllae folia dispersa": the anatomy of the Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum (1637) / Steven J. Reid.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-468) and indexes.
Summary Fresche fontanis contains twenty-five studies presenting major new research by leading scholars in Scottish culture of the late fourteenth and fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. The three-part collection includes essays on the prominent writers of the period: James I, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, John Bellenden, David Lyndsay, John Stewart of Baldynneis, William Fowler, Alexander Montgomerie, Andrew Melville and Alexander Craig. There are also essays on the Scottish romances ...
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Subject Scotland -- Civilization.
Scotland.
Civilization.
Scotland -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Williams, Janet Hadley, compiler of compilation.
McClure, J. Derrick, compiler of compilation.
Other Form: Print version: Fresche fontanis 1443844810 (OCoLC)827083214
ISBN 9781443867146 (electronic book)
1443867144 (electronic book)
1443844810
9781443844819