Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland

scenarios that grasp it. Skelton’s patronal dislocation, his aggression (how- ever motivated) against Wolsey, his allusions to E ...

As court pet, Parott is enclosed in“A cage curyowsly carven”( 8 ), which serves him as a“coverture”( 9 )–a tent, but also a defe ...

by nervous admonition (“Tycez-vous, Parrott,tenes-vous coye”[“Be quiet, Parrot, keep still,” 55 – 56 ]). The ladies’whispers sug ...

and a disordered, headless and split body politic. Out of all this there somehow surfaces a temporarily triumphant culmination, ...

Ryn God, ryn Devyll! Yet the date of Owur Lord And the date of the Devyll dothe shurewlye accord. ( 439 – 45 ) If Parrott is bri ...

medieval poets and romancers: an innovation infiltrated into the text and even into the terms of a tradition.”The active readers ...

old”after Gideon’s victory. If the reference to sanctuary (“assilum,” 124 ) points to Heshbon as the Church, a common reading, t ...

Go, litelle quayre, namyd the Popagay, Home to resorte Jerobesethe perswade; For the cliffes of Scaloppe they rore wellawey, And ...

Ye, all thyng mortall shall torne unto nought Except mannes soule, that Chryst so dere bought; That never may dye, nor never dye ...

Alas, I am dysdayned, And as a man halfe-maymed, My harte is so sore payned... ( 252 – 54 ) The Christological identification of ...

privileged as Scripture and as popular as outlaw legend;finally, and most crucially, to the multiplying“properties”offiguration. ...

But the fathers, of course, are there not to beget, but to stand by and applaud an act of self-creation, whose own gendering tak ...

shown that the only period during which the countess and other members of the Howardfamiliawere in residence at Sheriff Hutton c ...

question of medium: the Faques text is a rare instance of Skelton’s selective resort to print, while the lyrics suggest private ...

With hindsight, even the poem’s opening, in which“hartis belluyng, embosyd with distres”( 24 ) are pursued by foresters and houn ...

goodly chaumber of astate”( 768 )–a metonym for the body of the patro- ness, which is also, in a real sense given the probable c ...

faithful to her husband beyond death itself,^59 and Hypsipyle (“fayre Isaphill,” 1025 ), loyal to a father whose life she saves, ...

Of Manerly Margery Maystres Mylke and Ale; To her he wrote many maters of myrthe; Yet, thoughe I say it, therby lyith a tale, Fo ...

theme and imagery are ... determined by the material patterns of sound.”^66 The excesses of Skelton’s poem may perhaps be seen a ...

Conclusion This study breaks off–with, as we shall see shortly, one exception–in 1528. Much critical attention, of a high order, ...