Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland

Contents

Acknowledgements pageviii
Abbreviations x

Introduction 1

1 Beginnings: André’sVita Henrici Septimiand Dunbar’s aureate
allegories 19

2 The Bowge of Courteand the birth of the paranoid subject 43

3 “My panefull purs so priclis me”: the rhetoric of the self
in Dunbar’s petitionary poems 63

4 Translative senses: Alexander Barclay’sEcloguesand Gavin
Douglas’sPalice of Honour 87

5 Mémoires d’outre-tombe: love, rhetoric and the poems
of Stephen Hawes 108

6 Mapping Skelton:“Esebon, Marybon, Wheston next Barnet” 145

Conclusion 168

Notes 174
Bibliography 217
Index 243

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