Rhetoric, Royalty, And Reality

Essays On The Literary Culture Of Medieval And Early Modern Scotland

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This volume contains 12 studies dealing with aspects of literature and the culture of Scotland during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Much light is shed on canonical Middle Scots writers: Alastair Fowler and David Parkinson, both on Gavin Douglas; David Moses on Robert Henryson; Ruben Valdes Miyares on William Dunbar. The essay by Rod Lyall, on the anonymous, Three Prestis of Peblis, and that of Eleanor Commander on the Originale Chronicle by Andrew Wyntoun, both illuminate unperceived aspects of well-known fifteenth-century texts. Janet Hadley Williams and Alan Swanson both significantly advance the knowledge of the poet, Sir David Lyndsay. Women's contribution to the culture is the subject of essays by Marguerite Corporaal (on poetry by Queen Mary Stewart and Mary Beaton) and of Marie-Claude Tucker (on the calligrapher Ester Inglis). In the area of Scottish Gaelic literature and culture, William Gillies explores the connections between a prose tale and poem on the topic of the land of the Little People. In the final study, Jamie Reid-Baxter contextualises and expounds a hitherto unknown Renaissance sonnet sequence, "The Nyne Muses by John Dykes".In each of the contributions in this volume rhetoric and reality loom large, royalty, the third term of the title, is the ever-present final parameter of culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.