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This page intentionally left blank COURT POETRY IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND This book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between courtpoetryandvariousformsofauthority,politicalandcultural,in England and Scotland at the beginning of the sixteenth century. ThroughpoemsbySkelton,Dunbar,Douglas,Hawes,Lyndsayand Barclay,itexaminesthepathsbywhichcourtpoetryanditsnarrators seek multiple forms of legitimation: from royal and institutional sources, but also in the media of script and print. The book is the firstforsometimetotreatEnglishandScottishmaterialofitsperiod together, and responds to European literary contexts, the dialogue betweenvernacularandLatinmatter,andcurrentcriticaltheory.Inso doing it claims that public and occasional writing evokes a counter- discourse in the secrecies and subversions of medieval love-fictions. The result is a poetry that queries and at times cancels the very authoritytospeakthatitsoproudlypromotes. ANTONY J. HASLER is Associate Professor in the Department of English,SaintLouisUniversity. cambridge studies in medieval literature Generaleditor AlastairMinnis,YaleUniversity Editorialboard ZygmuntG.Barański,UniversityofCambridge ChristopherC.Baswell,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles JohnBurrow,UniversityofBristol MaryCarruthers,NewYorkUniversity RitaCopeland,UniversityofPennsylvania SimonGaunt,King’sCollege,London StevenKruger,CityUniversityofNewYork NigelPalmer,UniversityofOxford WinthropWetherbee,CornellUniversity JocelynWogan-Browne,FordhamUniversity Thisseriesofcriticalbooksseekstocoverthewholeareaofliteraturewritteninthe major medieval languages – the main European vernaculars, and medieval Latin and Greek – during the period c. 1100–1500. Its chief aim is to publish and stimulate fresh scholarship and criticism on medieval literature, special emphasis beingplacedonunderstandingmajorworksofpoetry,prose,anddramainrelation tothecontemporarycultureandlearningwhichfosteredthem. Recenttitlesintheseries AndrewColeLiteratureandHeresyintheAgeofChaucer SuzanneM.YeagerJerusaleminMedievalNarrative NicoleR.RiceLayPietyandReligiousDisciplineinMiddleEnglishLiterature D.H.GreenWomenandMarriageinGermanMedievalRomance PeterGodmanParadoxesofConscienceintheHighMiddleAges:Abelard,Heloiseand theArchpoet EdwinD.CraunEthicsandPowerinMedievalEnglishReformistWriting DavidMatthewsWritingtotheKing:Nation,Kingship,andLiteratureinEngland, 1250–1350 MaryCarruthers(ed.)RhetoricBeyondWords:DelightandPersuasionintheArtsof theMiddleAges KatharineBreenImagininganEnglishReadingPublic,1150–1400 AntonyJ.HaslerCourtPoetryinLateMedievalEnglandandScotland:Allegoriesof Authority Acompletelistoftitlesintheseriescanbefoundattheendofthevolume. COURT POETRY IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND Allegories of Authority ANTONY J. HASLER cambridge university press Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown, Singapore,SãoPaulo,Delhi,Tokyo,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecb28ru,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521809573 ©AntonyJ.Hasler2011 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2011 PrintedintheUnitedKingdomattheUniversityPress,Cambridge AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata Hasler,Antony. CourtpoetryinlatemedievalEnglandandScotland:allegoriesofauthority/AntonyJ.Hasler. p. cm.–(Cambridgestudiesinmedievalliterature) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn978-0-521-80957-3(hardback) 1. Englishpoetry–Earlymodern,1500–1700–Historyandcriticism. 2. Politicalpoetry,English– Historyandcriticism. 3. Politicsandliterature–England–History–16thcentury. 4. Politicsand literature–Scotland–History–16thcentury. 5. Authorityinliterature. I. Title. PR525.H5H37 2010 8210.3093581–dc22 2010030520 isbn978-0-521-80957-3Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyInternetwebsitesreferredto inthispublication,anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. For Joan, Jack, Loie and Maud Contents Acknowledgements pageviii Abbreviations x Introduction 1 1 Beginnings:André’sVitaHenriciSeptimiandDunbar’saureate allegories 19 2 TheBowgeofCourteandthebirthoftheparanoidsubject 43 3 “Mypanefullpurssopriclisme”:therhetoricoftheself inDunbar’spetitionarypoems 63 4 Translativesenses:AlexanderBarclay’sEcloguesandGavin Douglas’sPaliceofHonour 87 5 Mémoiresd’outre-tombe:love,rhetoricandthepoems ofStephenHawes 108 6 MappingSkelton:“Esebon,Marybon,WhestonnextBarnet” 145 Conclusion 168 Notes 174 Bibliography 217 Index 243 vii Acknowledgements Thisbookhascometogetherovermanyyears,butIaminclinedtothink ofitasframedbetweentwogroups.AttheUniversityofCambridge,where it began all too long ago as a doctoral thesis, the Cambridge “alternative” medieval seminar provided a model of interchange rarely encountered since. Ardis Butterfield, the late Ruth Bagnall, Mark Chinca, Elizabeth Edwards, Simon Gaunt, Jane Gilbert and Gabrielle Lyons are all owed much.SarahKayandNicoletteZeeman,bothalsomembersofthegroup, were generous enough to take on the additional task of reading early versions of the material, as were Richard Axton and Rita Copeland. More recently those early days have been recalled in the St. Louis Lacan reading group, and here I would like particularly to thank Guinn Batten, Jessica Rosenfeld and Jon Todd Dean, who provided wonderful dialogue and feedback when parts of Chapters 2 and 5 were presented as part of a panelattheLacanianAffiliatedPsychoanalyticWorkgroupsconferencein PhiladelphiainMarch2008. To individuals now, more and less formally. My interest in the material began with an undergraduate dissertation directed by A.C. Spearing, who also supervised the initial stages of the subsequent doctoral dissertation. RichardBeadletookoverthelatterstages,andI’mgratefulforthewisdom, acumenandsteadysupportofboth.Asdoctoralexaminer,JohnScattergood deployed his immense Skeltonian knowledge with light-handed bounty. LindaBreeandElizabethHanlonhavebeenmorethanreasonablyforbearing withanauthorwhomusthaveseemedprofessionallyinfirm. I could not imagine more careful or thoughtful readers of the original typescriptthanJamesSimpsonandR.JamesGoldstein,bothofwhomhave beenpositiveinfluencesinahostofotherways.NorcanIbegintoreckon the immense personal and intellectual generosity of Paul Strohm, who at onestagetooktimeoutfromabusysummertoreadanearlierversionofthe work, and who has sustained my thinking across the years. Ad Putter has been a lively and perceptive source of dialogue on everything whenever viii
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