Scripting the Nation: Court Poetry and the Authority of History in Late Medieval Scotland.
- Author / Editor
- Terrell, Katherine H.
Scripting the Nation: Court Poetry and the Authority of History in Late Medieval Scotland.
- Published
- Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2022.
- Physical Description
- viii, 232 pp.
- Series
- Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture.
- Description
- Describes a "widespread nationalistic feeling" in late medieval and early modern Scotland, with particular attention to Latin chroniclers, court poets in the reign of James IV, and their similar uses of Scottish myths of origin in resistance to English ones. Includes discussion of how the Selden manuscript "appropriates Chaucerian material to its own nationalistic vision"; how William Dunbar "claims Chaucer as a literary ancestor" while he asserts his own nationalistic voice; and how, for Gavin Douglas, Chaucer exemplifies past English glory that has degenerated in contrast with growing Scottish prestige.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Manuscripts and Textual Studies