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Interventions : New Studies in Medieval Culture - Katherine H. Terrell

Interventions

New Studies in Medieval Culture

By: Katherine H. Terrell

Hardcover | 1 April 2021

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Scripting the Nation is the first book to set the poets of Scottish King James IV’s court—William Dunbar, Walter Kennedy, and Gavin Douglas—in an extended dialogue with Latin and vernacular traditions of historiography. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Latin chroniclers such as John of Fordun and Walter Bower argued for their nation’s status, using genealogically based myths of origin that linked Scotland to ancient centers of power. As vernacular histories grew more Anglophobic and quarrels rooted in the past continued to influence Anglo-Scottish diplomacy, Dunbar, Kennedy, and Douglas took up a national discourse that responded to English myths and an English poetic tradition exemplified by Geoffrey Chaucer. Terrell’s elegant study examines how these Scottish writers marked out a distinct realm of Scottish cultural and poetic achievement, appropriating and subverting English literary models in ways that reveal the interplay between literary and historical authority in the scripting of nationhood.
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"Scripting the Nation is impressively rigorous in its analysis and based on an intimate knowledge of the texts discussed and the contexts in which they were written. It has strong interdisciplinary credentials and contributes substantially to ongoing research in the fields of Scottish and English literature as well as engaging with issues of cultural and national identity." --Roger A. Mason, editor of Scots and Britons: Scottish Political Thought and the Union of 1603

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