Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland

sleeping, outward deportment and the most basic of bodily functions are modeled after the courtier’s environment, in particular ...

interpret the Eleusinian mysteries is to divulge them. Since the verbvulgare(to spread abroad, divulge) can also mean“to prostit ...

“For ony drede”: Drede is invited to differ from his own inscription in the allegory through ambitious speech. If this is one of ...

as the projection of what he lacks–as the absence implied by Macrobius. Brought to the“traves of sylke fyne”that hides the invis ...

symbolic currency Lacan tells us that the Thing marks the place of a loss beyond representa- tion,figured in psychoanalysis as t ...

could be arbitrarily revoked. This renders it an appropriate center for the symbolic economy of Skelton’s poem, where it takes o ...

however, is the part played by“bowge of court”in the poem’sfiguration. A blank space in itself, it becomes the medium by which w ...

self-discipline by exposing its continual struggle with its wayward body.”^56 In Skelton’s poem, this disciplinary dimension is ...

In his study of espionage in Renaissance literature, John Michael Archer has suggested that the courtly subject of early modern ...

fiction he himself inhabits. They repeatedly assimilate him to the stereotype of the terrified cleric at court, while the poem t ...

under the epigone’s nagging anxiety that there is no poetic garment not already used (“All that he wereth, it is borowed ware”). ...

In Aloco,I menejuxtaB: Woo is hym that is blynde and maye not see! ( 515 – 18 ) Such alienated speech plays along the border of ...

Privy Chamber. Similarly, the strangely labilefigure of“bowge of courte” disrupts personification allegory, mirroring the royal ...

I wolde therwith no man were myscontente; Besechynge you that shall it see or rede, In every poynte to be indyfferente, Syth all ...

chapter 3 “My panefull purs so priclis me”: the rhetoric of the self in Dunbar’s petitionary poems Je ne plains riens que ma pai ...

complete form. The folio appears to have been compiled between 1570 and 1586 , and is associated with the family of Maitland, in ...

“vrangis and...gryt iniuris”( 9 – 10 )and“men off wertew and cuning, / Off wit, and vysdome in gydding”( 11 – 12 ). The prizes i ...

He lays ironic claim to rights of a more egalitarian kind; he, too, is“cum of Adame and Eve / And fane wald leif as vtheris dois ...

dressed as a fool“That ladis may bait him lyk a buill”( 27 ). The Queen’s “wardraipper”James Doig is humiliated through both pla ...

and they have a long history. Jacqueline Cerquiglini has drawn attention to a well-attested tradition in which the sight of the ...