This volume examines a period of profound change in Scottish cultural history, in which ideas of sovereignty, religion and national identity were all subject to change and redefinition. The eight essays focus on literature, festivities, documents and letters.
The Royal entry in 16th-century Scotland, Douglas Gray; troubled times -
Margaret Tudor and the historians, Louise Fradenburg; crossing the border -
Scottish poetry and English readers in the 16th century, Priscilla Bawcutt;
early modern Scottish literature and the parameters of culture, A.A.
MacDonald; the Scottish court and the Scottish sonnet at the union of the
crowns, Michael G.H. Spiller; folkloric patterns in Scottish chronicles,
Juliette Wood; the relationship between "Scotorum historia" of Hector Boece
and John Bellenden's "Chronicles of Scotland", Nicola Royan; Shakespeare and
Scottish kingship - a case history, Sally Mapstone.
