Literature and religion in late medieval and early modern Scotland : essays in honour of Alasdair A. MacDonald / edited by Luuk Houwen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Houwen, L. A. J. R., editor.

Albert C. Baugh Book Fund.

Series:

Mediaevalia Groningana ; new ser., v. 18.

Mediaevalia Groningana new series ; v. 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and literature--Scotland.

Religion and literature.

Scottish literature--To 1700.

Scottish literature.

MacDonald, A. A. (Alasdair A.).

MacDonald, A. A.

Scotland.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 228 pages : portrait ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Peeters, 2012.

Contents:

Introduction: Alasdair MacDonald, publications 1972-2010

"Idilnes giffes novrysingis to vicis" : the prologue of the Scottish legends of the saints / Regina Scheibe

Looking at Mary : the mother of Christ in Kennedy's "Ballat of our lady" and "Passioun of Crist" / Nicole Meier

The sedentary swallow in Henryson's The preaching of the swallow : natural history, genre problems and the battle between the body and the soul / Luuk Houwen

The manuscript of Adam Abell's Chronicle / Janet Hadley Williams and Kenneth Dunn

Religious elements in the poetry of Gavin Douglas / Douglas Gray

Pastoral encyclopedism in The complaynt of Scotland's "Monologue recreative" / Michael W. Twomey

James VI's translations of the Psalms / J. Derrick McClure

"Holy words for healing" : some early Scottish charms and their ancient religious roots / Priscilla Bawcutt

James Anderson's poem The winter night / Jamie Reid-Baxter

John Mair on divine creation and conservation / Alexander Broadie

Scotland's first Protestant coronation : revolutionaries, sovereignty and the culture of nostalgia / Michael Lynch.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-228).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert C. Baugh Book Fund.

ISBN:

9042925825

9789042925823

OCLC:

788218214

Publisher Number:

99954855797