NICOLA ROYAN NICOLA.ROYAN@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Older Scots Literature
NICOLA ROYAN NICOLA.ROYAN@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Older Scots Literature
JOANNA MARTIN JOANNA.MARTIN@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Editor
Emily Wingfield
Editor
This essay takes up Sally Mapstone’s contention that Scottish advice to princes was directed as much to magnates and their supporters as it ever was to the king, and applies it to Gavin Douglas’s Eneados. It considers the manner in which Douglas’s translation represents nobility, national identity, and political violence, with reference to Douglas’s own magnatial identity and that of the poem’s patron, William Sinclair. It considers both the prologues and the translated texts, examining further the relationship between them. In so doing, it places the Eneados in the context of Virgilian criticism as well as Older Scots poetic traditions, and demonstrates parallels in language choices regarding war, government, and rule.
Royan, N. (2017). The noble identity of Gavin Douglas. In J. Martin, & E. Wingfield (Eds.), Premodern Scotland: literature and governance 1420-1587. Oxford University Press
Publication Date | Jun 22, 2017 |
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Deposit Date | Aug 30, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 23, 2019 |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Book Title | Premodern Scotland: literature and governance 1420-1587 |
Chapter Number | 9 |
ISBN | 9780198787525 |
Keywords | Gavin Douglas, Eneados, advice material, nobility, Virgil, chivalry |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/867748 |
Publisher URL | https://global.oup.com/academic/product/premodern-scotland-9780198787525?cc=gb&lang=en& |
Additional Information | Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press |
Contract Date | Aug 30, 2017 |
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