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OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 15/05/17, SPi PREMODERN SCOTLAND OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 15/05/17, SPi OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 15/05/17, SPi Professor Sally Mapstone, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of St Andrews University, copyright John Cairns. OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 15/05/17, SPi OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 15/05/17, SPi Premodern Scotland Literature and Governance 1420–1587. Essays for Sally Mapstone Edited by JOANNA MARTIN and EMILY WINGFIELD 1 OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 15/05/17, SPi 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. 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OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 15/05/17, SPi Foreword I am delighted to be associated with this tribute to Sally Mapstone, a scholar whom I have known for many years and for whom I have both affection and great respect. I first met Sally in 1984 at a conference in Germany, when she was a young and very promising graduate student. This promise was rapidly fulfilled, not only in her impressive doctoral thesis on ‘The Advice to Princes Tradition in Scottish Literature 1450–1500’ (1986), but in numerous later publications, which directed new and searching attention to a number of literary works, some by famous authors, such as Henryson, but many fragmentary and virtually forgotten. She demonstrated their importance within a powerful ethical and advisory strain of writing in Scotland, and, in effect, altered the critical map of early Scottish literature. Sally has, of course, a remarkably wide range of literary interests, but one that has become increasingly prominent in recent years is the study of the actual manu- scripts and prints in which literary texts of all kinds were transmitted to their early readers. One of the first fruits of this was the illustrated booklet that accompanied an exhibition in the Bodleian Library: Scots and their Books (1996). Another was her enthusiastic promotion of a digitized facsimile of the Chepman and Myllar prints, a work edited by her in 2008. Yet another project, even more ambitious in scope, is the forthcoming contribution to the Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland (volume 1), of which she is a co-editor. Sally’s charisma, energy, and talent for organizing both people and institutions are well known and have been exercised in many fields, but their impact on Scottish studies has been particularly valuable. In the early 1990s she arranged an excellent lecture series at Oxford, later published as The Rose and the Thistle: Essays on the Culture of Late Medieval and Renaissance Scotland (1998). In 1996 she organized at St Hilda’s College one of the most lively and successful of the triennial international conferences on early Scottish literature. The proceedings of this conference were later collected in Older Scots Literature (2005). Sally herself described this massive volume far too modestly as ‘snap-shots of the current state of development of the subject’, but it might rather be termed the best and most comprehensive survey of the topic so far. In 1998 a weekend conference celebrating the edition of William Dunbar about to be published by the Association of Scottish Literary Studies took place in Edinburgh; as many participants will recall, it had a fitting climax in a splendid dinner at George Heriot’s College. This too led to an important book: William Dunbar, ‘the Nobill Poyet’ (2001). All three works display Sally’s excellence as an editor. Contributors to anything she has edited will know how carefully and rigorously she scrutinizes what they have written, and how often they profit from her generous yet incisive comments. The prominence of Oxford in recent years as a centre for Scottish studies is almost solely due to Sally. She is clearly an excellent and inspiring teacher, one who shows concern not just for the academic education of those she has supervised but OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 15/05/17, SPi viii Foreword also their general welfare. It is striking how many of her students have subse- quently become successful university teachers themselves. I personally have learnt much from her. When I was editing Dunbar there was a constant flow of letters back and forth between us—this was a period before emails became common- place—as she read the latest draft of my commentary, and discussed it with char- acteristic acuity. I also recall with pleasure the numerous occasions when we have talked informally, perhaps in St Hilda’s or my own home, or over dinner at Pitlochry (or similar conferences in more distant lands), or walking together round a castle in North Wales or examining the iconography of a pulpit in Antwerp. My mind is stored with memories of rich and fruitful conversations with Sally. Many other scholars, I suspect, would say the same. Priscilla Bawcutt August 2016 OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 15/05/17, SPi Preface Premodern Scotland: Literature and Governance 1420–1587. Essays for Sally Mapstone 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 literature composed in Scotland in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and a little beyond, sixteenth, and early seventeenth centuries. The essays bring to the fore texts both from and about the royal court in a variety of genres, including satire, tragedy, complaint, dream vision, chronicle, epic, romance, and devotional and didactic treatise, and consider texts composed for noble readers and for a wider readership able to access printed material. The texts studied include Bower’s Scotichronicon, Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid, and Gavin Douglas’s Eneados. Lesser known texts also receive much-needed critical attention, and include Richard Holland’s The Buke of the Howlat, chronicles by Andrew of Wyntoun, Hector Boece, and John Bellenden, and poetry by sixteenth-century writers such as Robert Sempill, John Rolland of Dalkeith, and William Lauder. Non-literary texts, such as the Parliamentary ‘Aberdeen Articles’, further deepen the discussion of the volume’s theme. Writings from south of the border, which provoked creative responses in Scots authors, and which were themselves inflected by the idea of Scotland and its literature, are also considered here. These include Lydgate’s Troy Book, and Malory’s Morte Darthur. With a focus on historical and material context, contributors explore the ways in which these texts engage with notions of the self and with advisory subjects both specific to particular Stewart monarchs and of more general political applicability in Scotland in the late medieval and early modern periods. This book is a companion to, and continuation of, Professor Sally Mapstone’s seminal Oxford D.Phil. thesis, ‘The Advice to Princes Tradition in Scottish Literature, 1450–1500’, and subsequent publications in the field of Older Scots literature. Professor Mapstone’s work over the last thirty years has revolutionized the study of later medieval Scottish literature and Anglo-Scottish literary relations, particularly in the areas of political literature and book history where she has succeeded in breaking down traditional period divisions to write on Scottish and English litera- ture from c.1375 to 1707. Addressing an international scholarly and advanced student audience, the essays in the volume are arranged into two parts, the first covering the literary responses to kingship and governance prior to 1513 (the end of James IV’s reign), and the second from the aftermath of the Battle of Flodden until the end of James VI’s minority. Within the two sections of the volume, essays are ordered chronologic- ally, and in dialogue with each other. The volume has an introduction, setting out its purpose and describing the literary critical and historicist approaches of its contributors. The volume concludes with a complete bibliography of Professor Mapstone’s publications.
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