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Book SynopsisThe Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1350-1600 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Writing Across the Borders; M. P. Bruce & K. H. Terrell The Borderlands of Satire: Linked, Opposed, and Exchanged Political Poetry During the Scottish and English Wars of the Early Fourteenth Century; A. Galloway Sovereign Exception: Pre-National Consolidation in The Taill of Rauf Coilyear; R. P. Schiff Friend or Foe? Negotiating the Anglo-Scottish Border in Sir Thomas Gray's Scalacronica and Richard Holland's Buke of the Howlat; K.Ash Anglo-Scottish Relations in John Hardyng's Chronicle; S.L.Peverley The Border, England, and the English in some Older Scots Lyric and Occasional Poems; J.Martin The Border Writes Back; R.F.Green Passing the Book: The Scottish Shaping of Chaucer's Dream States in Bodleian Library, MS Arch. Selden. B.24; K.Murray Lydgate Mauscripts and Prints in Late Medieval Scotland; W.H.E.Sweet What Happened to Rhyme Royal in Scotland?; R.J.Goldstein 'Rois red and quhit, resplendent of colour': Margaret Tudor and Scotland's Floricultural Future in William Dunbar's Poetry; C.Honeyman The Scottish Identity of Gavin Douglas; N.Royan Afterword; L.O.A.Fradenburg
