Companion to Medieval Scottish Poetry

PRISCILLA BAWCUTT, honorary professor at the University of Liverpool, was one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars of Older Scots. She edited The Poems of William Dunbar for the Association of Scottlish Literary Studies (1997/8), and The Shorter Poems of Gavin Douglas for the Scottish Text Society (revised 2003); she has written very widely and deeply on all aspects of Older Scots literature, includingher foundational study, Gavin Douglas (1976). IAN C. CUNNINGHAM, former Keeper of Manuscripts at the National Library of Scotland, has published extensively on Latin and Older Scots manuscripts, and edited and translated Theophrastus Janet Hadley Williams is an Honorary Lecturer at the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the Australian National University. Her edition of 'Duncane Laideus' Testament' and other Comic Poems in Older Scots was published by The Scottish Text Society in 2016. Janet Hadley Williams is an Honorary Lecturer at the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the Australian National University. Her edition of 'Duncane Laideus' Testament' and other Comic Poems in Older Scots was published by The Scottish Text Society in 2016. JULIA BOFFEY is Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London. PRISCILLA BAWCUTT, honorary professor at the University of Liverpool, was one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars of Older Scots. She edited The Poems of William Dunbar for the Association of Scottlish Literary Studies (1997/8), and The Shorter Poems of Gavin Douglas for the Scottish Text Society (revised 2003); she has written very widely and deeply on all aspects of Older Scots literature, includingher foundational study, Gavin Douglas (1976). IAN C. CUNNINGHAM, former Keeper of Manuscripts at the National Library of Scotland, has published extensively on Latin and Older Scots manuscripts, and edited and translated Theophrastus

• Introduction: Poets `of this Natioun' - Priscilla Bawcutt and Janet Hadley WilliamsLate Medieval Scotland: a Study in Contrasts - `I will my proces hald': Making Sense of Scottish Lives and the Desire for History in Barbour, Wyntoun and Blind Hary - R James Goldstein`Mark your Meroure be Me': Richard Holland's Buke of the Howlat - Nicola RoyanThe Kingis Quair and other poems of Bodleian Library MS Arch. Selden. B. 24 - Julia Boffey`Of Wisdome and of Guide Governance': Sir Gilbert Hay and The Buik of King Alexander the Conquerour - Joanna MartinHenryson's Morall Fabillis: Structure and Meaning - Roderick J LyallOrpheus and Eurydice and The Testament of Cresseid: Robert Henryson's `fine poetical way' - Anne McKimReligious Verse in Medieval Scotland - Priscilla BawcuttWilliam Dunbar - John A. BurrowGavin Douglas - Douglas GrayMedieval Romance in Scotland - Sir David Lyndsay - Janet Hadley WilliamsGuide to Further ReadingIndex of ManuscriptsGeneral Index

Offers a comprehensive guide to early Scots vernacular literature. Illustrated with copious references, it should prove especially useful as a reference point for students and scholars from neighbouring disciplines.[...]This volume supplies a significant and rewarding introduction to the rich literary culture of late medieval Scotland.