The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1300–1600

The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1350-1600 explores the roles that Scotland and England play in one another's imaginations. This collection of essays brings together eminent scholars and emerging voices from the frequently divergent fields of English and Scottish medieval studies. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction: Writing Across the Borders....Pages 1-14 The Borderlands of Satire: Linked, Opposed, and Exchanged Political Poetry During the Scottish and English Wars of the Early Fourteenth Century....Pages 15-31 Sovereign Exception: Pre-National Consolidation in The Taill of Rauf Coilyear ....Pages 33-50 Friend or Foe? Negotiating the Anglo-Scottish Border in Sir Thomas Gray’s Scalacronica and Richard Holland’s Buke of the Howlat ....Pages 51-67 Anglo-Scottish Relations in John Hardyng’s Chronicle ....Pages 69-86 The Border, England, and the English in Some Older Scots Lyric and Occasional Poems....Pages 87-102 The Border Writes Back....Pages 103-119 Passing the Book: The Scottish Shaping of Chaucer’s Dream States in Bodleian Library, Ms Arch. Selden. B.24.....Pages 121-139 Lydgate Manuscripts and Prints in Late Medieval Scotland....Pages 141-159 A Distinction of Poetic Form: What Happened to Rhyme Royal in Scotland?....Pages 161-180 “Rois Red and Quhit, Resplendent of Colour”: Margaret Tudor and Scotland’s Floricultural Future in William Dunbar’s Poetry....Pages 181-193 The Scottish Identity of Gavin Douglas....Pages 195-209 Afterword: Eisd O Eisd ....Pages 211-223 Back Matter....Pages 225-235 Cover 1 Title 8 Copyright 9 Contents 10 Acknowledgments 12 Introduction: Writing Across the Borders 14 1. The Borderlands of Satire: Linked, Opposed, and Exchanged Political Poetry During the Scottish and English Wars of the Early Fourteenth Century 28 2. Sovereign Exception: Pre-National Consolidation in The Taill of Rauf Coilyear 45 3. Friend or Foe? Negotiating the Anglo-Scottish Border in Sir Thomas Gray’s Scalacronica and Richard Holland’s Buke of the Howlat 63 4. Anglo-Scottish Relations in John Hardyng’s Chronicle 80 5. The Border, England, and the English in Some Older Scots Lyric and Occasional Poems 98 6. The Border Writes Back 114 7. Passing the Book: The Scottish Shaping of Chaucer’s Dream States in Bodleian Library, MS Arch. Selden. B.24 131 8. Lydgate Manuscripts and Prints in Late Medieval Scotland 150 9. A Distinction of Poetic Form: What Happened to Rhyme Royal in Scotland? 169 10. “Rois Red and Quhit, Resplendent of Colour”: Margaret Tudor and Scotland’s Floricultural Future in William Dunbar’s Poetry 189 11. The Scottish Identity of Gavin Douglas 202 Afterword: Eisd O Eisd 217 Contributors 230 Index 233 "Theorizing the Borders: Scotland and the Shaping of Identity in Medieval Britain explores the roles that Scotland and England play in one another's imaginations. This collection of essays brings together eminent scholars and emerging voices from the frequently divergent fields of English and Scottish medieval studies to address such questions as: How do subjects on both sides of the Anglo-Scottish border define themselves in relation to one another? In what ways do they influence each other's sense of historical, cultural, and national identity? What stories do they tell about one another, and to what ends? How does the shifting political balance--as well as the shifting border--between the two kingdoms complicate notions of Scottishness and Englishness? What happens to important texts, genres, and even poetic forms when they cross this border? How do texts produced in the Anglo-Scottish borderlands transform mainstream notions of Scottish and English identities?"-- Provided by publisher "The Anglo-Scottish border in the late medieval and early modern period was a highly contested region, a militarized zone that was also a place of cultural contact and exchange. The contributors to this volume explore the role of this borderland in the construction of both Scottish and English identities, seeking insight into the role that Scotland and England played in one another's imaginations. Texts that originate in, pass through, or comment on the Anglo-Scottish borderland reveal the border as a crucial third term in the articulation of Scottish and English national consciousness and cultural identity"-- Provided by publisher