Literature and religion in late medieval and early modern Scotland
Subtitle: essays in honour of Alasdair A. MacDonald
By: edited by Luuk Houwen
Series: Mediaevalia Groningana new series -- v. 18; Mediaevalia Groningana -- new ser., v. 18.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leuven; Walpole, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9789042925823
Subjects: Religion and literature; Scottish literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-228).
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Alasdair MacDonald, publications 1972-2010; title: "Idilnes giffes novrysingis to vicis" : the prologue of the Scottish legends of the saints / Regina Scheibe; title: Looking at Mary : the mother of Christ in Kennedy's "Ballat of our lady" and "Passioun of Crist" / Nicole Meier; title: The sedentary swallow in Henryson's The preaching of the swallow : natural history, genre problems and the battle between the body and the soul / Luuk Houwen; title: The manuscript of Adam Abell's Chronicle / Janet Hadley Williams and Kenneth Dunn; title: Religious elements in the poetry of Gavin Douglas / Douglas Gray; title: Pastoral encyclopedism in The complaynt of Scotland's "Monologue recreative" / Michael W. Twomey; title: James VI's translations of the Psalms / J. Derrick McClure; title: "Holy words for healing" : some early Scottish charms and their ancient religious roots / Priscilla Bawcutt; title: James Anderson's poem The winter night / Jamie Reid-Baxter; title: John Mair on divine creation and conservation / Alexander Broadie; title: Scotland's first Protestant coronation : revolutionaries, sovereignty and the culture of nostalgia / Michael Lynch.