Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union (until 1707)

Ian Brown is Emeritus Professor in Drama at Kingston University and Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Scottish Literature at Glasgow University. He is the General Editor of The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature (EUP: 2007) and widely published on aspects of theatre and literature. He is also a playwright and poet. Thomas Clancy is Lecturer in the Department of Celtic at the University of Glasgow. The late Susan Manning was Grierson Professor of English Literature, and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. Murray Pittock MAE FRSE is Bradley Professor and Pro Vice-Principal at the University of Glasgow, and Scotland’s leading cultural historian. A prizewinner of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy, he has held visiting appointments or spoken at the universities of UC Berkeley, Boston, Cambridge, Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, UCL, New York University, Notre Dame, Oslo, Oxford, the Sorbonne, Virginia, Yale, Gresham College, the British Academy, The British Museum, Hampton Court, the Smithsonian, the House of Commons and many other locations. He is the General Editor of the Collected Works of Allan Ramsay.

• Preface, Ian Brown, Thomas Clancy, Susan Manning and Murray Pittock; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Scottish Literature: Criticism and the Canon, Ian Brown, Thomas Clancy, Susan Manning and Murray Pittock; Chapter 2 - The Study of Scottish Literature, Cairns Craig; Until 1314; Chapter 3 - One kingdom from many people: History until 1314, Benjamin Hudson; Chapter 4 - The Topography of Peoples' Lives: Geography until 1314, Sally M Foster; Chapter 5 - The Lion's tongues: Languages in Scotland to 1314, William Gillies; Chapter 6 - The Poetry of the Court: Praise, Thomas Owen Clancy; Chapter 7 - Aneirin, the 'Gododdin', Jenny Rowland; Chapter 8 - Norse Literature in the Orkney Earldom, Judith Jesch; Chapter 9 - Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh and the Classical Revolution, Katharine Simms; Chapter 10 - Saving Verse: Early Medieval Religious Poetry, Gilbert Márkus; Chapter 11- Hagiography, James E. Fraser; Chapter 12 - Adomnán of Iona and his prose writings, Clare Stancliffe; Chapter 13 - Theology, Philosophy, and Cosmography, Thomas O'Loughlin; Chapter 14 - A fragmentary literature: narrative and lyric from the early middle ages, Thomas Owen Clancy; 1314-1707; Chapter 15 - Land and Freedom: Scotland 1314-1707, Edward J. Cowan; Chapter 16 - Emergent Nation: Scotland's Geography, 1314-1707, Charles W. J. Withers; Chapter 17 - The Several Tongues of a Single Kingdom: the Languages of Scotland 1314-1707, Chris Robinson and Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh; Chapter 18 - The International Reception and Literary Impact of Scottish Literature of the period 1314 until 1707, Paul Barnaby and Tom Hubbard; Chapter 19 - Versions of Scottish Nationhood from c. 850-1700, Nicola Royan with Dauvit Broun; Chapter 20 - From Rome to Ruddiman: the Scoto-Latin tradition, Jack MacQueen; Chapter 21 - Creation and Compilation: The Book of the Dean of Lismore and Literary Culture in Late-Medieval Gaelic Scotland, Martin MacGregor; Chapter 22 - Gaelic literature in the later middle ages: the Book of the Dean and beyond, William Gillies; Chapter 23 - Philosophy and theology in Scotland before the Reformation, Alexander Broadie; Chapter 24 - Scottish theological literature, 1560-1707, Crawford Gribben; Chapter 25 - Legal Writing 1314-1707; David Sellar; Chapter 26 - Literature, Art and Architecture, Michael Bath; Chapter 27 - Performances and Plays, Bill Findlay; Chapter 28 - Balladry: A Vernacular Poetic Resource, Mary Ellen Brown; Chapter 29 - Older Scots Literature and the Court, Sally Mapstone; Chapter 30 - Robert Henryson, Tony Hasler; Chapter 31 - William Dunbar, Priscilla Bawcutt; Chapter 32 - Sìleas na Ceapaich, Colm Ó Baoill; Notes on Contributors.

...a rich, diverse, surprising account of literary scolarship.