Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland

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  1. Letters and Papers, Domestic and Foreign, of the Reign of Henry VIII, ed. J. S.
    Brewer, 21 vols. (London, 1872 ),iv, 2083. The translation is White’s (xlii). Lyall
    notes that Barclay“was probably associated with Tyndale because of their
    shared dislike of Wolsey and the English government rather than because of
    any agreement over religious matters”: Lyall, “Alexander Barclay and the
    Edwardian Reformation,” 455.

  2. Letters and Papers,iv, 2405 – 06.

  3. See White, xlvi–li, and Lyall,“Alexander Barclay,” 457.

  4. Bawcutt notes the poem’s“element of bravura”:Gavin Douglas, 67. For
    Spearing, the poem shows the sexual disquiets of Douglas the supposedly
    celibate cleric, who in the face of an angry love-goddess’s judgment pleads
    benefit of clergy (Medieval to Renaissance, 239 ). Fradenburg analyzes Douglas’s
    participation in the Scottish court’s culture of honor and its drive to ground
    phenomenal exterior in an“inner”essence; the poem shows“the desire to
    recover protection and plenitude through a redemption of violence”and the
    risk of mutilation, polarities realized inThe Palice’s alternately menacing and
    accommodating femalefigures (City, Marriage, Toumament, 187 ).

  5. All references toThe Palice of Honour, except where otherwise indicated, are to
    the London edition ofc. 1553 printed inThe Shorter Poems of Gavin Douglas, ed.
    Priscilla J. Bawcutt, STS 4 th series 3 (Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1967 ).

  6. Spearing, Medieval to Renaissance, 232 ; Fradenburg, City, Marriage,
    Tournament, 190.

  7. Virgil,Aeneid, ix. 717 ; Statius,Thebaid,vii. 78 ; Boccaccio,Teseida, vii. 32 ;
    CantTi:A 1982.

  8. Jacques Derrida,Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression, trans. Eric Prenowitz
    (Chicago, 1995 ), 10.

  9. See Peter W. Travis,“Chaucer’s Heliotropes and the Poetics of Metaphor,”
    Speculum 72 ( 1997 ), 399 – 427 ( 402 – 16 ).

  10. Derrida,Archive Fever, 1.

  11. For a recent overview, see Mladen Dolar, A Voice and Nothing More
    (Cambridge, MA, 2006 ), p. 41.

  12. Alicia K. Nitecki,“Gavin Douglas’s Yelling Fish:The Palice of Honour, Lines
    146 – 8 ,”Notes and Queries 226 ( 1981 ), 118 – 19.

  13. Bawcutt,Gavin Douglas, 59 ; Fradenburg,City, Marriage, Tournament, 189.

  14. David Parkinson,“The Farce of Modesty in Gavin Douglas’sThe Palis of
    Honour,”Philological Quarterly 70 ( 1990 ), 13 – 25 ( 14 – 15 ).

  15. Lynn Enterline,The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare(Cambridge,
    2000 ), 34.

  16. Jacques Lacan,The Seminar: Book II. The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the
    Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954 – 55 , trans. Sylvana Tomaselli, notes by John
    Forrester (New York, 1988 ), 313.

  17. Parkinson,“Mobbing Scenes in Middle Scots Verse.”

  18. Parkinson,“Farce of Modesty,” 21.

  19. This single stanza, missing from Copland’s print, is supplied from the later
    Charteris print.


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