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Professor NICOLA ROYAN's Outputs (12)

Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas (2024)
Book Chapter
Royan, N. (2024). Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas. In G. Carruthers (Ed.), A Companion to Scottish Literature (379-392). Wiley Blackwell

Serving Venus: Attitudes to Authority in The House of Fame, The Kingis Quair and The Palice of Honoure (2021)
Journal Article
Royan, N. (2021). Serving Venus: Attitudes to Authority in The House of Fame, The Kingis Quair and The Palice of Honoure. The Mediaeval Journal, 10(1), 81-104

While Douglas's debt to Chaucer's House of Fame has received critical attention, there has been less attention to his more immediate Scottish literary context. This article considers the poem's textual parallels with The Kingis Quair, in particular... Read More about Serving Venus: Attitudes to Authority in The House of Fame, The Kingis Quair and The Palice of Honoure.

Cresseid, Dido and the Power of Speech (2020)
Journal Article
Royan, N. (2020). Cresseid, Dido and the Power of Speech. Nottingham Medieval Studies, 64, 61-86. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.NMS.5.127657

The representation of women is often used as a critical touchstone for the re-assessment of many medieval texts: this is also true of discussions of Robert Henryson’s The Testament of Cresseid and Gavin Douglas’s Eneados. This essay compares these po... Read More about Cresseid, Dido and the Power of Speech.

Elegy and Commemorative Writing (2018)
Book Chapter
Martin, J., Mathis, K., & Royan, N. (2018). Elegy and Commemorative Writing. In N. Royan (Ed.), The International Companion to Scottish Literature, 1400-1650

Afterword (2017)
Book Chapter
Royan, N. (2017). Afterword. In A. Petrina, & I. Johnson (Eds.), The impact of Latin culture on medieval and early modern Scottish writing (249-261). Medieval Institute Publications

The noble identity of Gavin Douglas (2017)
Book Chapter
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

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 tr... Read More about The noble identity of Gavin Douglas.

St Andrews and Aberdeen (2016)
Book Chapter
Royan, N. (2016). St Andrews and Aberdeen. In D. Wallce (Ed.), Europe: a literary history 1348-1418. Oxford University Press

Gavin Douglas's Eneados (2016)
Book Chapter
Royan, N. (2016). Gavin Douglas's Eneados. In R. Copeland (Ed.), Oxford history of classical reception in English literature. Oxford University Press