Scottish Text Society Fifth Series – serie
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Older Scots Vowels
A History of the Stressed Vowels of Older Scots from the Beginnings to the Eighteenth Century
Av A. J. Aitken, Caroline Macafee m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
1008 kr
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Offers a comprehensive linguistic exploration delving into the intricate evolution of vowel sounds in the Scots language during its earlier stages. The author scrutinizes historical texts and phonetic changes, offering valuable insights into the development of vowel systems and their impact on the …
Ballad Repertoire of Anna Gordon, Mrs Brown of Falkland
Av Sigrid Rieuwerts, Sigrid Rieuwerts
Inbunden, 2011
755 kr
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Edition of an important collection of ballads, taken down in the eighteenth century from a female singer.It is generally acknowledged that no Scottish ballads are superior in kind to those recited by Mrs Brown of Falkland (1747-1810). Her ballads date from an earlier age and contain the themes and …
Older Scots: A Linguistic Reader
Häftad, 2012
333 kr
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A full introduction to Older Scots language and literature, with a wide selection of copiously annotated texts from the period.This book enables both students and more advanced scholars to develop a comprehensive understanding of Older Scots, the form of Scots which survives in records up to around …
The Phanaticks
Av Archibald Pitcairne, John MacQueen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
516 kr
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First modern edition of a highly provocative Scottish drama.Written at the very end of the seventeenth century, The Phanaticks (previously known as The Assembly) satirises in dramatic form contemporary political and religious affairs, presenting some well-known figures in thethinnest of disguises. …
Shorter Scottish Medieval Romances
Florimond of Albany, Sir Colling the Knycht, King Orphius, Roswall and Lillian
Inbunden, 2013
604 kr
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First modern edition of four romances from the medieval Scottish tradition.The four romances in this collection have been unjustly neglected. Indeed, Florimond, King Orphius and Sir Colling were entirely unknown to modern audiences - despite some late-medieval references to the first two -until …
The Taill of Rauf Coilyear
Av Ralph Hanna
Inbunden, 2019
604 kr
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First edition of a lively medieval romance.The author of the fifteenth-century Older Scots romance of Rauf Coilyear may be unknown, but the popularity of this comic king-in-disguise tale is undisputed; it is cited by William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas at the turn of the century, and again in the …
Duncane Laideus Testament and other Comic Poems in Older Scots
Inbunden, 2016
604 kr
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First modern scholarly edition of a number of late medieval Scottish poems, in the comic tradition.This volume contains eleven Scottish examples of particular kinds of humorous writing - comic, parodic, and satiric - of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Previously unavailable in modern …
Maitland Quarto
A New Edition of Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys Library MS 1408
Inbunden, 2015
604 kr
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New edition of one of the most important collections of sixteenth-century Scots poetry.The Maitland Quarto Manuscript was compiled in c.1586 in the circle of the Maitland Family of Lethington, East Lothian. It is a highly significant and rich collection of Older Scots poetry. It contains the most …
Gude and Godlie Ballatis
Inbunden, 2015
604 kr
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New edition of a collection of songs and ballads from sixteenth-century Scotland, shedding important new light on the English and Scottish Reformation.The Gude and Godlie Ballatis is a collection of religious lyrics from the early years of the Scottish Reformation. It was a highly popular, if …
EneadosGavin Douglas's Translation of Virgil's Aeneid.
Volume I: Introduction and Commentary
Inbunden, 2020
902 kr
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First volume in a new edition of Douglas's "Eneados", providing a comprehensive introduction and commentary.Although Virgil's Aeneid was one of the most widely admired works of the European Middle Ages, the first complete translation to appear in any form of English was Gavin Douglas's magisterial …
Eneados: Gavin Douglas's Translation of Virgil's Aeneid
Volume II: Books I-VII
Inbunden, 2021
902 kr
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Second volume of a major new edition of Douglas's Eneados, containing a substantially revised and corrected text of Books I-VII plus appendix of textual variants.Although Virgil's Aeneid was one of the most widely admired works of the European Middle Ages, the first complete translation to appear …
Eneados: Gavin Douglas's Translation of Virgil's Aeneid
Volume III: Book VIII-XIII
Inbunden, 2022
902 kr
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Third and final volume of a new edition of Douglas's Eneados, containing a substantially revised and corrected text of Books VIII-XIII plus appendix of textual variants.Although Virgil's Aeneid was one of the most widely admired works of the European Middle Ages, the first complete translation to …
Eneados: Gavin Douglas's Translation of Virgil's Aeneid [3 volume set]
Three-volume set
Av Priscilla Bawcutt, Ian Cunningham
2022
3324 kr
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This 3 volume set represents a new edition, with introduction, commentary, and revised text, of one of the most important medieval poems.Although Virgil's Aeneid was one of the most widely admired works of the European Middle Ages, the first complete translation to appear in any form of English was …
The Muses Threnodie
Or Mirthful Mournings on the Death of Master Gall by Henry Adamson
Av Henry Adamson, David J. Parkinson
Inbunden, 2024
902 kr
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This edition of a seventeenth-century Scottish poem gives modern audiences insight into the ways previous generations perceived and engaged with local nature and architecture.Henry Adamson's "The Muses Threnodie" (1638) offers insights into the lives, amusements and anxieties of of the residents of …
Poems of William Stewart and John Bellenden
with Selected Poems by their Contemporaries 1513–1542
Av William Stewart, John Bellenden m. fl.
Inbunden, 2027
902 kr
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This is an edition of the complete shorter poetic works of John Bellenden and William Stewart, writers who flourished during the reign of James V of Scots.The poems of William Stewart and John Bellenden belong to the rich body of writing composed in early sixteenth-century Scotland during the reign …
Shorter Poems of Gavin Douglas
Inbunden, 2003
455 kr
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Revised edition of Gavin Douglas’ shorter poemsGavin Douglas was a prominent Scottish churchman who eventually rose to become Bishop of Dunkeld, and is well known for Eneados, his brilliant Middle Scots translation of the Aeneid. First published in 1967, this edition has been revised and updated by …
Prose Works of Sir Gilbert Hay
Volume II: The Buke of the Law of Armys
Inbunden, 2005
455 kr
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Second volume of a three-volume edition of the Hay Manuscript, the sole known text of the Scots translations of three French prose treatises, made by Sir Gilbert Hay in the mid-fifteenth century.Jonathan A Glenn presents us with these meticulously edited versions 'in the hope that an accurate text …
David Hume of Godscroft's The History of the House of Angus
Volume 1
Av David Reid
Inbunden, 2005
407 kr
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David Hume of Godscroft, a leading intellect of Jacobean Scotland, recounts the relations, manoeuvrings and ideologies of one of the most important Scottish families of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.The history recounts the House of Angus from the first earl in the fourteenth century to the …
David Hume of Godscroft's The History of the House of Angus
Volume 2
Av David Reid
Inbunden, 2005
407 kr
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David Hume of Godscroft, a leading intellect of Jacobean Scotland, recounts the relations, manoeuvrings and ideologies of one of the most important Scottish families of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.The history recounts the House of Angus from the first earl in the fourteenth century to the …
Poems of Walter Kennedy
Av Walter Kennedy, Nicole Meier m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
516 kr
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First modern edition of the complete works of Walter Kennedy, the late medieval Scottish poet.Walter Kennedy is best known as William Dunbar's feisty opponent in their celebrated Flyting, but his poetic talents, praised by such famous near-contemporaries as Gavin Douglas and David Lyndsay, extend …
Knightly Tale of Golagros and Gawane
Av Ralph Hanna
Inbunden, 2008
516 kr
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New edition, with full apparatus, of an important medieval Arthurian romance.The Knightly Tale of Golagros and Gawane, the finest of all Older Scots romances, was written during the last quarter of the fifteenth century. It uses the thirteen-line alliterative stanza to vivid effect. Its greatest …
The Buke of the Howlat by Richard Holland
Av Ralph Hanna
Inbunden, 2014
604 kr
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Critical edition of an important Scottish poem, highlighting its striking poetic features.The Buke of the Howlat was composed in the late 1440s for Elizabeth Douglas, wife of Archibald Douglas, earl of Moray. It is one of the great monuments of fifteenth-century Scots verse, perhaps the finest …
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