Scripting the Nation is the first book to set the poets of Scottish King James IV's court-William Dunbar, Walter Kennedy, and Gavin Douglas-in an extended dialogue with Latin and vernacular traditions of historiography. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Latin chroniclers such as John of Fordun and Walter Bower argued for their nation's status, using genealogically based myths of origin that linked Scotland to ancient centers of power.
As vernacular histories grew more Anglophobic and quarrels rooted in the past continued to influence Anglo-Scottish diplomacy, Dunbar, Kennedy, and Douglas took up a national discourse that responded to English myths and an English poetic tradition exemplified by Geoffrey Chaucer. Terrell's elegant study examines how these Scottish writers marked out a distinct realm of Scottish cultural and poetic achievement, appropriating and subverting English literary models in ways that reveal the interplay between literary and historical authority in the scripting of nationhood.
| ISBN: | 9780814214626 |
| Publication date: | 1st April 2021 |
| Author: | Katherine H Terrell |
| Publisher: | The Ohio State University Press an imprint of Ohio State University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 234 pages |
| Series: | Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary studies: poetry and poets |
Scripting the Nation is the first book to set the poets of Scottish King James IV's court-William Dunbar, Walter Kennedy, and Gavin Douglas-in an extended dialogue with Latin and vernacular traditions of historiography. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Latin chroniclers such as John of Fordun and Walter Bower argued for their nation's status, using genealogically based myths of origin that linked Scotland to ancient centers of power.
Scripting the Nation features in the following genres: Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets
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Scripting the Nation was written by Katherine H Terrell and published by The Ohio State University Press an imprint of Ohio State University Press
Scripting the Nation has 234 pages
Yes it is part of Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture series
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