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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.

William Lauder: The Speculum Principis in the Sixteenth Century (2017)
Book Chapter
Martin, J. (2017). William Lauder: The Speculum Principis in the Sixteenth Century. In Premodern Scotland: Literature and Governance 1420-1587 (171-184). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198787525.003.0012

This essay demonstrates the importance of the little-known poet William Lauder to the literary culture of mid-sixteenth-century Scotland and compares his work to that of his contemporaries, David Lyndsay and Richard Maitland. It argues that Lauder’s... Read More about William Lauder: The Speculum Principis in the Sixteenth Century.

Pre-Modern Scotland. Literature and Governance 1420-1587 (2017)
Book
Martin, J., & Wingfield, E. (Eds.). (2017). Pre-Modern Scotland. Literature and Governance 1420-1587. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198787525.001.0001

This book brings together original essays by a group of international scholars to offer ground-breaking research into the ‘Advice to Princes’ tradition and related themes of good self- and public governance in Older Scots literature, and in Latin lit... Read More about Pre-Modern Scotland. Literature and Governance 1420-1587.