Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 41

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series

Edited by Reinhold F. Glei and Maik Goth - With Nina Tomaszewski

Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In yearly hardcover volumes, the new series publishes significant scholarship, criticism, and reviews treating all facets of medieval and Renaissance culture: history, art, literature, music, science, law, economics, and philosophy.

Volume 41 is a special issue which features twelve outstanding articles from the International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 260 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼

978-1-4422-5795-5 • Hardback • December 2015 • $125.00 • (£96.00)

978-1-4422-5796-2 • eBook • December 2015 • $118.50 • (£92.00)

Series: Medievalia et Humanistica Series

Subjects: Literary Criticism / Medieval, History / Europe / Medieval, Literary Criticism / Renaissance

Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 41

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series

Hardback

eBook

Summary

Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In yearly hardcover volumes, the new series publishes significant scholarship, criticism, and reviews treating all facets of medieval and Renaissance culture: history, art, literature, music, science, law, economics, and philosophy.

Volume 41 is a special issue which features twelve outstanding articles from the International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature.

Details

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 260 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼

978-1-4422-5795-5 • Hardback • December 2015 • $125.00 • (£96.00)

978-1-4422-5796-2 • eBook • December 2015 • $118.50 • (£92.00)

Series: Medievalia et Humanistica Series

Subjects: Literary Criticism / Medieval, History / Europe / Medieval, Literary Criticism / Renaissance

Author

Reinhold F. Glei and Maik Goth are researchers at the Latin Philology Institute and at the English Department of Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Nina Tomaszewski is academic staff at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

Table of Contents

Editorial Note
Manuscript Submission Guidelines
Articles for Future Volumes
Preface

Introduction
Eva von Contzen and Luuk Houwen
Books Beyond Borders: Fresh Findings on Boethius’ Reception in Twelfth-Century Scotland
Kylie Murray
Malcolm, Margaret, Macbeth and the Miller: Rhetoric and the Re-Shaping of History in Wyntoun’s Original Chronicle
Rhiannon Purdie
“Ego Sum Margarita Olim Scotorum Regina”: St Margaret and the Idea of the Scottish Nation in Walter Bower’s Scotichronicon
Claire Harrill
Scotland, France and the Auld Alliance: Was there a Burgundian Alternative?
David Ditchburn
The Use of Virgil’s Eclogues and Georgics in the Eneados of Gavin Douglas
Conor Leahy
Gavin Douglas’s Humanist Identities
Nicola Royan
“A Mass of Incoherencies”: John Mair, William Caxton, and the Creation of British History in Early Sixteenth-Century Scotland
Elizabeth Hanna
Writing Which, and Whose, Identity? The Challenges of the Gude and Godlie Ballatis
Alasdair MacDonald
“Let all zour verse be Literall”: Innovation and Identity in Scottish Alliterative Verse
Jeremy Scott Ecke
Writing Sonnets as a Scoto-Britane: Scottish Sonnets, the Union of the Crowns, and Negotiations of Identity
Allison Steenson
James Melville and the “Releife of the longing soule”: A Scottish Presbyterian Song of Songs?
Jamie Reid Baxter
The Legacy of Scotland’s Colonial Schemes: From the 1620s Until Now
Kirsten Sandrock