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Scripting the Nation

Scripting the Nation Court Poetry and the Authority of History in Late Medieval Scotland - Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture

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Publisher's Synopsis

Scripting the Nation is the first book to set the poets of Scottish King James IV's court-William Dunbar, Walter Kennedy, and Gavin Douglas-in an extended dialogue with Latin and vernacular traditions of historiography. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Latin chroniclers such as John of Fordun and Walter Bower argued for their nation's status, using genealogically based myths of origin that linked Scotland to ancient centers of power. As vernacular histories grew more Anglophobic and quarrels rooted in the past continued to influence Anglo-Scottish diplomacy, Dunbar, Kennedy, and Douglas took up a national discourse that responded to English myths and an English poetic tradition exemplified by Geoffrey Chaucer. Terrell's elegant study examines how these Scottish writers marked out a distinct realm of Scottish cultural and poetic achievement, appropriating and subverting English literary models in ways that reveal the interplay between literary and historical authority in the scripting of nationhood.

Book information

ISBN: 9780814214626
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Imprint: The Ohio State University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 821.2099411
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 234
Weight: 510g
Height: 159mm
Width: 236mm
Spine width: 21mm