Table of Contents

Preface, Ian Brown, Thomas Clancy, Susan Manning and Murray Pittock; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Scottish Literature: Criticism and the Canon, Ian Brown, Thomas Clancy, Susan Manning and Murray Pittock; Chapter 2 - The Study of Scottish Literature, Cairns Craig; Until 1314; Chapter 3 - One kingdom from many people: History until 1314, Benjamin Hudson; Chapter 4 - The Topography of Peoples' Lives: Geography until 1314, Sally M Foster; Chapter 5 - The Lion's tongues: Languages in Scotland to 1314, William Gillies; Chapter 6 - The Poetry of the Court: Praise, Thomas Owen Clancy; Chapter 7 - Aneirin, the 'Gododdin', Jenny Rowland; Chapter 8 - Norse Literature in the Orkney Earldom, Judith Jesch; Chapter 9 - Muireadhach Albanach O Dalaigh and the Classical Revolution, Katharine Simms; Chapter 10 - Saving Verse: Early Medieval Religious Poetry, Gilbert Markus; Chapter 11- Hagiography, James E. Fraser; Chapter 12 - Adomnan of Iona and his prose writings, Clare Stancliffe; Chapter 13 - Theology, Philosophy, and Cosmography, Thomas O'Loughlin; Chapter 14 - A fragmentary literature: narrative and lyric from the early middle ages, Thomas Owen Clancy; 1314-1707; Chapter 15 - Land and Freedom: Scotland 1314-1707, Edward J. Cowan; Chapter 16 - Emergent Nation: Scotland's Geography, 1314-1707, Charles W. J. Withers; Chapter 17 - The Several Tongues of a Single Kingdom: the Languages of Scotland 1314-1707, Chris Robinson and Roibeard O Maolalaigh; Chapter 18 - The International Reception and Literary Impact of Scottish Literature of the period 1314 until 1707, Paul Barnaby and Tom Hubbard; Chapter 19 - Versions of Scottish Nationhood from c. 850-1700, Nicola Royan with Dauvit Broun; Chapter 20 - From Rome to Ruddiman: the Scoto-Latin tradition, Jack MacQueen; Chapter 21 - Creation and Compilation: The Book of the Dean of Lismore and Literary Culture in Late-Medieval Gaelic Scotland, Martin MacGregor; Chapter 22 - Gaelic literature in the later middle ages: the Book of the Dean and beyond, William Gillies; Chapter 23 - Philosophy and theology in Scotland before the Reformation, Alexander Broadie; Chapter 24 - Scottish theological literature, 1560-1707, Crawford Gribben; Chapter 25 - Legal Writing 1314-1707; David Sellar; Chapter 26 - Literature, Art and Architecture, Michael Bath; Chapter 27 - Performances and Plays, Bill Findlay; Chapter 28 - Balladry: A Vernacular Poetic Resource, Mary Ellen Brown; Chapter 29 - Older Scots Literature and the Court, Sally Mapstone; Chapter 30 - Robert Henryson, Tony Hasler; Chapter 31 - William Dunbar, Priscilla Bawcutt; Chapter 32 - Sileas na Ceapaich, Colm O Baoill; Notes on Contributors.

About the Author

Ian Brown is Professor in Drama at Kingston University. He is General Editor of The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature (EUP: 2007) and Series Editor of The Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature, co-editing the volume on the twentieth century (2009) and on drama (due out in 2011). Thomas Clancy is Lecturer in the Department of Celtic at the University of Glasgow. Susan Manning is Grierson Professor of English Literature, and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing (2002) and The Puritan-Provincial Vision: Scottish and American Literature in the Nineteenth Century (1990). Murray Pittock is Bradley Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow, Head of the College of Arts and Vice-Principal. He has formerly held chairs and other senior appointments at Strathclyde, Edinburgh and Manchester universities. His recent work includes Scottish and Irish Romanticism (2008), The Reception of Sir Walter Scott in Europe (2007) and James Boswell (2007). Forthcoming work includes collections on Robert Burns in Global Culture, the Reception of Robert Burns in Europe and the textual edition of the Scottish Musical Museum for the Oxford Burns. He is currently PI of the AHRC Beyond Text project, 'Robert Burns, 1796-1909: Inventing Tradition and Securing Memory'.

Reviews

This exciting new history unites scholarship and imagination, cutting across narrow divisions of period and language and adopting multiple perspectives to bring out as never before the varieties of Scots, Gaelic and Latin writing. -- David Norbrook, Merton Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford ...a rich, diverse, surprising account of literary scolarship. Scottish Studies Review This exciting new history unites scholarship and imagination, cutting across narrow divisions of period and language and adopting multiple perspectives to bring out as never before the varieties of Scots, Gaelic and Latin writing. ...a rich, diverse, surprising account of literary scolarship.