Scripting the nation : court poetry and the authority of history in late medieval Scotland /
Terrell, Katherine H.,author.
"Examines the rise of Scottish nationalism through poets at the court of James IV-William Dunbar, Walter Kennedy, and Gavin Douglas-who appropriated and subverted English literary models to create a nationalist discourse that resisted English cultural and political hegemony, defining what is meant by Scots and Scotland"--
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-228) and index.
On the uses of the past: diplomacy, genealogy, and historiography -- Subversive histories: strategies of identity in Scottish historiography -- "Ane worthier genology": translatio imperii and the divine imperative of history -- Legacies of nationalist historiography and the founding of Scottish poetry -- Literary genealogy and national identity in Dunbar and Kennedy -- From courtly love to court poetics: Dunbar's petitions and the Scottish transformation of tradition -- "Writtin in the langage of Scottis natioun": the political poetry of Douglas's Eneados.
"Examines the rise of Scottish nationalism through poets at the court of James IV-William Dunbar, Walter Kennedy, and Gavin Douglas-who appropriated and subverted English literary models to create a nationalist discourse that resisted English cultural and political hegemony, defining what is meant by Scots and Scotland"--
Dunbar, William, 1460?-1520
Kennedy, Walter, approximately 1460-approximately 1508
Douglas, Gawin, 1474?-1522
English poetry
Scottish poetry
National characteristics, Scottish, in literature.
Nationalism and literature.
Courts and courtiers in literature.
Authority in literature.