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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.