Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland

stand-in for the exhausted poet Lydgate (“My lymys feeble, crokid & feynt for age, / Cast in a dreed, for dulnesse of corage ...

gesture of homage to a patron and inscribes Lydgate’s death into a moral schema that authenticates that gesture generically. Jea ...

himself bankrupt as often as possible. For his tropes of bodily self- humiliation constitute“symbolic capital”in their very deni ...

associated with those members of the southern Scottish nobility opposed to James III’s pursuit of closer ties with England and t ...

the ego is not exhausted by the precept:‘You ought to be like this (like your father).’It also comprises the prohibition:‘You ma ...

That governis him bot lak to God and man– He is worth be king that governe him sa can; Suppois he be nocht lord of toure na toun ...

through the substance ascribed to the sovereign. We might compare Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen’s account of the mimetic ego. Borch-Jaco ...

labeur”[“a morose consciousness of labour”] in which we hear“le grince- ment d’insurmontables contradictions”[“the creaking of i ...

originals”points to others whose desires, imputed or illegible, may not map securely on to the poet’s desire. I have tried to sk ...

its culmination in print.“The typographic revolution,”Berger writes,“is at once the consequence, the catalyst, and the symbol of ...

chapter 1 Beginnings: André’sVita Henrici Septimi and Dunbar’s aureate allegories Narratives of origin, in particular dynastic o ...

defended Henry and attacked the conventional “doubleness” of the French.^2 The fullest contemporary account of the matter, in Be ...

transnational rhetorical market where proficient Latinity, and the dexterous wielding of classical metre and allusion, are major ...

The arrival of the grex poetarum marked a significant moment in the history of relations between Latin and a vernacular which, f ...

willbethenewageofgold,theimperium, liberation from a past of political strife.^13 If this can sound unintentionally comic, we sh ...

born, great youth!”is followed a few lines later by a kletic“Ecce ades” “Behold, you are here!”. In Carmeliano’sSuasoria Laetici ...

perspective of theGenethliacon, that body becomes an opaque, clouded history from which the future must be released, just as the ...

here royal, glory. This afflicted body is also the place where political and cultural registers cross, since darkness is now, on ...

as I have said I did not see it with my own eyes) lest I make any rash assertions. And so until I am more fully instructed, I le ...

[O holy bishops, numberless ministers, you, certainly, were thefirst to have the joy of seeing Him lie upon straw long ago.] The ...