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The impact of Latin culture on medieval and early modern Scottish writing

Title
The impact of Latin culture on medieval and early modern Scottish writing / edited by Alessandra Petrina and Ian Johnson.
ISBN
9781580442817
1580442811
9781580442824
Publication
Kalamazoo : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, [2018]
Physical Description
xviii, 278 pages ; 25 cm.
Notes
Series volume numbering provided from description on publisher's website (viewed on August 7, 2018).
Summary
"In the late medieval and early modern periods, Scottish latinity had its distinctive stamp, most intriguingly so in its effects upon the literary vernacular and on themes of national identity. This volume shows how, when viewed through the prism of latinity, Scottish textuality was distinctive and fecund. The flowering of Scottish writing owed itself to a subtle combination of literary praxis, the ideal of eloquentia, and ideological deftness, which enabled writers to service a burgeoning national literary tradition" -- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 05, 2018
Series
Studies in medieval and early modern culture ; 58.
Studies in medieval and early modern culture ; [58]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Scottish Latinitas / Ian Johnson and Alessandra Petrina
Part I: Re-Writing the Classical and Medieval Legacy
Classical Reception and Erotic Latin Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Scotland: The Case of Thomas Maitland (ca. 1548-1572) / Steven J. Reid
Mnemonic Frameworks in The Buke of the Chess / Kate Ash-Irisarri
Part II: Writing the Scottish Nation. Defining Scottish Identity in the Early Middle Ages: Bede and the Picts / Tommaso Leso
Universals, Particulars, and Political Discourse in John Mair's Historia Maioris Britanniae / John Leeds
A "Scottish Monmouth": Hector Boece's Arthurian Revisions / Elizabeth Hanna
Topography, Ethnography, and the Catholic Scots in the Religious Culture Wars: From Hector Boece's Scotorum Historia to John Lesley's Historie of Scotland / John Cramsie
A View from Afar: Petruccio Ubaldini's Descrittione del Regno di Scotia / Alessandra Petrina
Part III. The Vagaries of Languages and Texts
Reading Robert Henryson's Orpheus and Eurydice: Sentence and Sensibility / Ian Johnson
Seget's Comedy: A Scots Scholar, Galileo, and a Dante Manuscript / Nick Havely
The Inventions of Sir Thomas Urquhart / Jeremy Smith
Afterword / Nicola Royan.
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