SARAH M. DUNNIGAN is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She has published articles on early modern literature, women's writing, and on twentieth-century Scottish literature and theory.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Incarnations of Eros PART I: THE MARIAN PERIOD Feminine Eros: Mary Queen of Sots and the Emergence of Desire Demonic and Angelic Women: The Erotics of Renunciation and Marianology in the Bannatyne Manuscript PART II: THE JACOBEAN PERIOD Fables of Eros: James VI and the Revelation of Desire Devotional Artefacts: John Stewart and the Eroticization of the Courtly Love's Alter: Alexander Montgomerie and the Erotics of Representation Heretical Love Words: The Poetry of William Fowler Conclusion: Love's End Index

SARAH M. DUNNIGAN is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She has published articles on early modern literature, women's writing, and on twentieth-century Scottish literature and theory.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Incarnations of Eros PART I: THE MARIAN PERIOD Feminine Eros: Mary Queen of Sots and the Emergence of Desire Demonic and Angelic Women: The Erotics of Renunciation and Marianology in the Bannatyne Manuscript PART II: THE JACOBEAN PERIOD Fables of Eros: James VI and the Revelation of Desire Devotional Artefacts: John Stewart and the Eroticization of the Courtly Love's Alter: Alexander Montgomerie and the Erotics of Representation Heretical Love Words: The Poetry of William Fowler Conclusion: Love's End Index

SARAH M. DUNNIGAN is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She has published articles on early modern literature, women's writing, and on twentieth-century Scottish literature and theory.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Incarnations of Eros PART I: THE MARIAN PERIOD Feminine Eros: Mary Queen of Sots and the Emergence of Desire Demonic and Angelic Women: The Erotics of Renunciation and Marianology in the Bannatyne Manuscript PART II: THE JACOBEAN PERIOD Fables of Eros: James VI and the Revelation of Desire Devotional Artefacts: John Stewart and the Eroticization of the Courtly Love's Alter: Alexander Montgomerie and the Erotics of Representation Heretical Love Words: The Poetry of William Fowler Conclusion: Love's End Index