The Renaissance in Scotland: Studies in Literature, Religion, History and Culture Offered to John Durkan

Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-90-04-10097-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 54, 428 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 939 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectua

The Renaissance in Scotland is a collection of original essays on a wide range of topics concerning the cultural history of Scotland. The period concerned extends from the late fifteenth through to the early seventeenth century.
The individual studies take various aspects of culture as their starting-points: literature; the history of manuscripts and printed books; libraries; the law; the universities; music; education; social, political and ecclesiastical history. The essays, however, all take full account of the larger context provided by the age of humanism and reform, as this was manifested in Scotland.
The Renaissance in Scotland contains an abundance of new information and offers many challenging new insights and interpretations. It will be of interest to all those concerned with the cultural and intellectual history of Scotland and of northern Europe in general.

Contributors include: Peter W. Asplin, Priscilla Bawcutt, T.A. Birrell, Alexander Broadie, Ian B. Cowan, I.C. Cunningham, Mark Dilworth, Robert Donaldson, Kenneth Elliott, William Gillies, Theo van Heijnsbergen, Brian Hillyard, James Kirk, Mark Loughlin, Michael Lynch, A.A. MacDonald, Leslie J. Macfarlane, Hector MacQueen, Sally Mapstone, Stephen Rawles, Allan White, and Michael Yellowlees.

Autoren/Hrsg.

MacDonald, A. A.

Lynch, Michael

Cowan, Ian B.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Durkan, John

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors
Abbreviations and Conventions
Illustrations
Foreword

1. The Scots Buke of Phisnomy and Sir Gilbert Hay, Sally Mapstone
2. The Latin Original of Robert Henryson's Annunciation Lyric, A.A. MacDonald
3. William Elphinstone's Library Revisited, Leslie J. Macfarlane
4. James Liddell on Concepts and Signs, Alexander Broadie
5. New Light on Gavin Douglas, Priscilla Bawcutt
6. The Asloan Manuscript, I.C. Cunningham
7. The Cathedral Clergy of Dunkeld in the Early Sixteenth Century, Ian B. Cowan with Michael
Yellowlees
8. The Invention of Tradition, Highland-Style, William Gillies
9. Glasgow University's Copy of Robert Richardson's Exegesis in canonem divi Augustini, Stephen Rawles
10. Canons Regular and the Reformation, Mark Dilworth
11. The Interaction between Literature and History in Queen Mary's Edinburgh, Theo van Heijnsbergen
12. The Dialogue of the Twa Wyfeis”, Mark Loughlin
13. The Regent Morton's Visitation: the Reformation of Aberdeen, 1574, Allan White
14. Some helpes for young Schollers: a New Source of Early Scottish Psalmody, Kenneth Elliott
15. Melvillian” Reform in the Scottish Universities, James Kirk
16. Preaching to the Converted? Perspectives on the Scottish Reformation, Michael Lynch
17. M. Alex: Boyde.” The Authorship of “Fra banc to banc', Robert Donaldson
18. Durkan & Ross” and Beyond, Brian Hillyard
19. Glanville Resarcinate: Sir John Skene and the Regiam Majestatem, Hector MacQueen
20. Some Rare Scottish Books in the Old Royal Library, T.A. Birrell
21. Writings of John Durkan, 1931-1994, T.A. Birrell

Über Autor(innen)

Alasdair A. MacDonald, Ph.D. (1978) in English, University of Edinburgh, is Professor of Medieval English Language and Literature at the University of Groningen. He has published widely on the Medieval and Renaissance literature and culture of Scotland and England.

Michael Lynch, Ph.D. (1977) in History, University of London, is Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and Paleography (alternatively Professor of Scottish History) at Edinburgh University. He has published widely on the history of early modern Scotland.

Ian B. Cowan, Ph.D. (1961) in Scottish History, Edinburgh University, was until his death in 1990 Professor of Scottish History at Glasgow University. He published extensively on the medieval church.