The Scots and medieval Arthurian legend
By: edited by Rhiannon Purdie and Nicola Royan.
Contributors: Purdie, Rhiannon.; Royan, Nicola.
Series: Arthurian studies,; 61
Publisher: D.S. Brewer
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Arthur, King -- Homes and haunts -- Scotland; Legends -- Scotland -- History and criticism; Britons -- Kings and rulers -- Folklore; Romances, Scottish -- Sources; Arthurian romances -- Sources; Scotland -- History -- To 1057 -- Historiography; Scotland -- Antiquities, Celtic; Scotland -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : tartan Arthur? / Rhiannon Purdie and Nicola Royan; title: Where does Britain end? The reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth in Scotland and Wales / Juliette Wood; title: The testimony of writing : Pierre de Langtoft and the appeals to history, 1291-1306 / Thea Summerfield; title: The fine art of faint praise in older Scots historiography / Nicola Royan; title: The Roman de Fergus : parody or pastiche? / Tony Hunt; title: Lancelot of the Laik : sources, genre, and reception / Elizabeth Archibald; title: Sir Lamwell in Scotland / Priscilla Bawcutt; title: The search for Scottishness in Golagros and Gawane / Rhiannon Purdie; title: Of an uncouthe stede : the Scottish knight in Middle English Arthurian romances / Cory J. Rushton; title: Dead butchers and fiend-like queens : literary and political history in The misfortunes of Arthur and Macbeth /Andrew King; title: Reinventing Arthur : representations of the matter of Britain in medieval Scotland and Catalonia /Sergi Mainer.