Rewriting the Past in Scottish Literature, 1350-1550

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-84384-677-2
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

Considers how Anglo-Scottish conflict was memorialised, reimagined and embedded by later writers.

The Anglo-Scottish Wars of Independence are often treated in historical and poetical works produced in Scotland between the fourteenth and sixteenth century, from chronicles and hagiographical romances to advisory and commemorative poems. Through an examination of such texts, this book explores how late-medieval writers drew on the memory of the wars to articulate a collective identity; and how literary and historical frameworks were deeply influenced by shifting Anglo-Scottish relations. It covers a range of topics: how borders - textual, geographic, and cultural - became a focus for articulations of national memory; the utilisation of origin myths and royal genealogy; anxieties around failures of memory or deliberate acts of forgetting; and the impact of the Battle of Flodden (1513) on writing about Scottish nationhood. Dealing in particular with Bower's Scotichronicon, Hary's Wallace, The Complaynt of Scotland and Lyndsay's Dreme, this study argues that these writers drew on understandings of the arts of memory to shape selective, and collective, recollections of the past as a response to contemporary concerns, providing an emotive memorialisation of Scotland's history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ash-Irisarri, Kate

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

Introduction
1. The North Remembers: Identity and Nation across Scotland's Borders
2. Family Ties: The Politics of Scottish Genealogical Memory
3. Reassembling Forgotten History: Bower's Scotichronicon at Coupar Angus
4. Hary's Wallace as a Book of Memory
5. Memory and Nation in Sir David Lyndsay's The Dreme and The Testament of the Papyngo
6. Sustaining the 'natiue cuntre': Remembering the Past in The Complaynt of Scotland
Conclusion: Making Stories, Making Memories

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ash-Irisarri, Kate
KATE ASH-IRISARRI is Lecturer in Late Medieval Scottish and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.