The Anglo-Scottish border and the shaping of identity, 1300-1600 / edited by Mark P. Bruce and Katherine H. Terrell.
2012
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Title
The Anglo-Scottish border and the shaping of identity, 1300-1600 / edited by Mark P. Bruce and Katherine H. Terrell.
Published
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Description
xii, 235 pages ; 22 cm
Associated name
Bruce, Mark Paul.
Terrell, Katherine H.
Terrell, Katherine H.
Series
New Middle Ages.
Summary
"Theorizing the Borders: Scotland and the Shaping of Identity in Medieval Britain explores the roles that Scotland and England play in one another's imaginations. This collection of essays brings together eminent scholars and emerging voices from the frequently divergent fields of English and Scottish medieval studies to address such questions as: How do subjects on both sides of the Anglo-Scottish border define themselves in relation to one another? In what ways do they influence each other's sense of historical, cultural, and national identity? What stories do they tell about one another, and to what ends? How does the shifting political balance--as well as the shifting border--between the two kingdoms complicate notions of Scottishness and Englishness? What happens to important texts, genres, and even poetic forms when they cross this border? How do texts produced in the Anglo-Scottish borderlands transform mainstream notions of Scottish and English identities?"-- Provided by publisher.
"The Anglo-Scottish border in the late medieval and early modern period was a highly contested region, a militarized zone that was also a place of cultural contact and exchange. The contributors to this volume explore the role of this borderland in the construction of both Scottish and English identities, seeking insight into the role that Scotland and England played in one another's imaginations. Texts that originate in, pass through, or comment on the Anglo-Scottish borderland reveal the border as a crucial third term in the articulation of Scottish and English national consciousness and cultural identity"-- Provided by publisher.
"The Anglo-Scottish border in the late medieval and early modern period was a highly contested region, a militarized zone that was also a place of cultural contact and exchange. The contributors to this volume explore the role of this borderland in the construction of both Scottish and English identities, seeking insight into the role that Scotland and England played in one another's imaginations. Texts that originate in, pass through, or comment on the Anglo-Scottish borderland reveal the border as a crucial third term in the articulation of Scottish and English national consciousness and cultural identity"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The borderlands of satire: linked, opposed, and exchanged political poetry during the Scottish and English wars of the early fourteenth century / Andrew Galloway
Sovereign exception: pre-national consolidation in The taill of Rauf Coilyear / Randy P. Schiff
Friend or foe? Negotiating the Anglo-Scottish border in Sir Thomas Gray's Scalacronica and Richard Holland's Buke of the Howlat / Kate Ash
Anglo-Scottish relations in John Hardyng's Chronicle / Sarah L. Peverley
The border, England, and the English in some older Scots lyric and occasional poems / Joanna Martin
The border writes back / Richard Firth Green
Passing the book: the Scottish shaping of Chaucer's dream states in Bodleian Library, MS Arch. Selden. B.24 / Kylie Murray
Lydgate manuscripts and prints in Late Medieval Scotland / W.H.E. Sweet
A distinction of poetic form: what happened to rhyme royal in Scotland? / R. James Goldstein
"Rois Red and Quhit, Resplendent of Colour": Margaret Tudor and Scotland's floricultural future in William Dunbar's poetry / Chelsea Honeyman
The Scottish identity of Gavin Douglas / Nicola Royan.
Sovereign exception: pre-national consolidation in The taill of Rauf Coilyear / Randy P. Schiff
Friend or foe? Negotiating the Anglo-Scottish border in Sir Thomas Gray's Scalacronica and Richard Holland's Buke of the Howlat / Kate Ash
Anglo-Scottish relations in John Hardyng's Chronicle / Sarah L. Peverley
The border, England, and the English in some older Scots lyric and occasional poems / Joanna Martin
The border writes back / Richard Firth Green
Passing the book: the Scottish shaping of Chaucer's dream states in Bodleian Library, MS Arch. Selden. B.24 / Kylie Murray
Lydgate manuscripts and prints in Late Medieval Scotland / W.H.E. Sweet
A distinction of poetic form: what happened to rhyme royal in Scotland? / R. James Goldstein
"Rois Red and Quhit, Resplendent of Colour": Margaret Tudor and Scotland's floricultural future in William Dunbar's poetry / Chelsea Honeyman
The Scottish identity of Gavin Douglas / Nicola Royan.
Place of creation/publication
United States -- New York (State).
Item Details
Call number
PR8539 .A54 2012