The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1300–1600

239 Pages·2012·2.58 MB·English

by  Mark P. Bruce

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THE ANGLO-SCOTTISH
BORDER AND THE SHAPING
OF IDENTITY, 1300–1600
Edited by
Mark P. Bruce and Katherine H. Terrell
THE ANGLO-SCOTTISH BORDER AND THE SHAPING OF IDENTITY, 1300–1600
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The Anglo-Scottish border and the shaping of identity, 1300–1600 /
edited by Mark P. Bruce and Katherine H. Terrell.
pages cm.—(The new Middle Ages)
1. English poetry—Scottish authors—History and criticism.
2. Scottish poetry—To 1700—History and criticism. 3. English
poetry—Middle English, 1100–1500—History and criticism. 4. English
poetry—Early modern, 1500–1700—History and criticism. 5. National
characteristics, English, in literature. 6. National characteristics,
Scottish, in literature. 7. Scottish Borders (England and Scotland)—In
literature. 8. Nationalism and literature—Great Britain—History.
9. England—Relations—Scotland. 10. Scotland—Relations—England.
I. Bruce, Mark Paul. II. Terrell, Katherine H.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Writing Across the Borders 1
Mark P. Bruce and Katherine H. Terrell
1. The Borderlands of Satire: Linked, Opposed, and
Exchanged Political Poetry During the Scottish and
English Wars of the Early Fourteenth Century 15
Andrew Galloway
2. Sovereign Exception: Pre-National Consolidation in
The Taill of Rauf Coilyear 3 3
Randy P. Schiff
3. Friend or Foe? Negotiating the Anglo-Scottish Border
in Sir Thomas Gray’s Scalacronica and Richard Holland’s
Buke of the Howlat 51
Kate Ash
4. Anglo-Scottish Relations in John Hardyng’s C hronicle 6 9
Sarah L. Peverley
5. The Border, England, and the English in Some Older
Scots Lyric and Occasional Poems 8 7
Joanna Martin
6. The Border Writes Back 103
Richard Firth Green
7. Passing the Book: The Scottish Shaping of Chaucer’s
Dream States in Bodleian Library, MS Arch. Selden. B.24 1 21
Kylie Murray
8. Lydgate Manuscripts and Prints in Late Medieval Scotland 141
W. H. E. Sweet