The Impact of Latin Culture on Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing /

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"In the late medieval and early modern periods, Scottish latinity had its distinctive stamp, most intriguingly so in its effects upon the literary vernacular and on themes of national identity. This volume shows how, when viewed through the prism of latinity, Scottish textuality was distinctive...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Johnson, Ian R. (Ian Richard) (Editor ), Petrina, Alessandra (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Kalamazoo : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Scottish literature.
Latin literature, Medieval and modern.
Latin language, Medieval and modern > Influence on Scots.
Latin language > Influence on Scots.
18.05 English literature.
Litterature latine medievale et moderne > Histoire et critique.
Litterature ecossaise > Jusqu'à 1700 > Histoire et critique.
Litterature ecossaise > Influence ancienne.
Latin literature, Medieval and modern > History and criticism.
Scottish literature > To 1700 > History and criticism.
Scottish literature > Classical influences.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Scottish Latinitas / Ian Johnson and Alessandra Petrina
  • Part I. Re-Writing the classical and medieval legacy: Classical reception and erotic Latin poetry in sixteenth-century Scotland: the case of Thomas Maitland (ca. 1548-1572) / Steven J. Reid
  • Mnemonic frameworks in the Buke of the Chess / Kate Ash-Irisarri
  • Part II. Writing the Scottish nation - Defining Scottish identity in the Early Middle Ages: Bede and the Picts / Tommaso Leso
  • Universals, particulars, and political discourse in John Mair's Historia Maioris Britanniae / John Leeds
  • A "Scottish Monmouth": Hector Boece's Arthurian revisions / Elizabeth Hanna
  • Topography, ethnography, and the Catholic Scots in the religious culture wars: from Hector Boece's Scotorum Historia to John Lesley's Historie of Scotland / John Cramsie
  • A view from afar: Petruccio Ubaldini's Descrittione del regno di Scotia / Alessandra Petrina
  • Part III. The vagaries of languages and texts: Reading Robert Henryson's Orpheus and Eurydice: sentence and sensibility / Ian Johnson
  • Seget's Comedy: a Scots scholar, Galileo, and a Dante manuscript / Nick Havely
  • The inventions of Sir Thomas Urquhart / Jeremy Smith
  • Afterword / Nicola Royan.

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