Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland

Alistair Fox’sPolitics and Literature, Colin Burrow breezily imputed an essential misguidedness to Fox’s privileging of Skelton ...

Of suche an industry And suche a pregnacy, Of hevenly inspyracion In laureate creacyon, Of poetes commendacion, That of divyne m ...

private calendar dating from his entry into the royal service, so Sir David Lyndsay entered the service of James IV’s third and ...

from rivalry in order to occupy the position of adviser–and his concern with the king’s body, ironically, requires a profession ...

Such imaginary rivalry, in 1535 , looks forward to a distant future. The court poets who briefly clustered around the young Jame ...

Notes introduction For the circumstantial evidence for the 1495 edition, see Kenneth Varty, Reynard, Renart, Reinaert and Other ...

Walter Map,De nugis curialium: Courtiers’Trifles, ed. and trans. M. R. James, rev. edn. C. N. L. Brooke and R. A. B. Mynors (Ox ...

For Scotland, see Sally Mapstone,“Was there a Court Literature in Fifteenth- Century Scotland?,”Studies in Scottish Literature ...

Cf. Paul de Man’s distinction between symbol, which“postulates the possi- bility of an identity or identification,”and allegory ...

Narrative, Authority, and Power: The Medieval Exemplum and the Chaucerian Tradition(Cambridge, 1994 ), 298 – 350. Maura Nolan de ...

41 .Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae: Translated by John Walton, ed. Mark Science, EETS OS 170 (London, 1927 ). All refere ...

David Starkey’s comments reveal the element of“symbolic capital”in Lydgate’s amplification, noting its analogues:“as adjectives ...

translation, Cambridge University Library MS Mm. 4. 42 , fols. 19 r– 84 r, differs from this in several minor details, but the s ...

The Medieval European Version of‘Kitab Sirr-ul-Asrar,’”Bulletin of the Faculty of Arts, University of Alexandria 15 ( 1961 ), 83 ...

temporarily at least, it clothes the poet in habits of such pomp that no one inquires about the person beneath them. A costume o ...

accession inaugurated a new style of rule, seeThe Reign of Henry VII: Proceedings of the 1993 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. Benjamin ...

André is so described in Bibliothèque Nationale MS Arsenal 418 , fol. v: cited in William Nelson,John Skelton, Laureate(New Yor ...

and theVita Regis Henrici Septimi,”Proceedings of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 4 ( 1997 ), 61 – 79. 19. Carlson,Engli ...

Dunbar’s poem, to which my own discussion is much indebted, see Fradenburg,City, Marriage, Tournament, 67 – 149. 31. The poem’s ...

“First inspect the mind of a word, and afterwards its face”: Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Poetria Nova, in Ernest Gallo (ed. and trans. ...