The proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature. Topics covered in this volume include: the development of Protestant aesthetics; literary culture and the early Scottish court; and teaching Older Scots as a foreign language.
"Now worthie folk suppose this be..." - Henryson and allegory; Duns
Scotus on intellect and will; Scotland on the European story-telling map; the
song of the cherubim; Scottish poetry in the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots;
soldiers and divines - Scottish-Danish exchange, 1589-1707; the foundations
of cosmopolitan culture - the functions of Scottish emigration before the
American colonization; the experience of being a bilingual writer; the legacy
of the Makars; literary culture and the early Scottish court; a story of one
faith and blood - "Orkneyinga Saga" and the poetics of historical continuity;
narrative subjectivity and narrative distancing in James I's "The Kingis
Quair"; Gilbert Hay and the problem of sources - the case of the "Buke of the
Ordre of Knychthede"; the Scots, the English and the French - an Arthurian
episode; turning law into literature - the influence of the "Ars Notaria" on
15th-century Scottish literature; "who knows if all that critics wrote was
true?" - some thoughts on Robert Henryson's biography; Robert Henryson on the
"thing present"; the European tragedy of Criseyde - the Scottish response;
Cresseid as the other - an examination of Henryson's treatment of Cresseid in
"The Testament of Cresseid"; Robert Henryson, Pico della Mirandola and late
15th-century heroic humanism; "the Thewis of gud woomen" - Scottish moral
advice with European connections?; re-evaluating the case for a Scottish
romance of "Eger and Gryme"; lions without villainy and hermaphrodite hares;
"the Freiris of Berwik" and the Falbiaux tradition. (Part contents).
