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

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'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. Acknowledgements vii Contributors ix Abbreviations and Conventions xi Illustrations xxi Foreword xxiii The Scots 'Buke of Phisnomy' and Sir Gilbert Hay / Sally Mapstone 1 The Latin Original of Robert Henryson's Annunciation Lyric / A. A. MacDonald 45 William Elphinstone's Library Revisited / Leslie J. Macfarlane 66 James Liddell on Concepts and Signs / Alexander Broadie 82 New Light on Gavin Douglas / Priscilla Bawcutt 95 The Asloan Manuscript / I. C. Cunningham 107 The Cathedral Clergy of Dunkeld in the Early Sixteenth Century / Ian B. Cowan with Michael J. Yellowlees 136 The Invention of Tradition, Highland-Style / William Gillies 144 Glasgow University's Copy of Robert Richardon's 'Exegesis in canonem divi Augustini' / Stephen Rawles 157 Canons Regular and the Reformation / Mark Dilworth 164 The Interaction between Literature and History in Queen Mary's Edinburgh: the Bannatyne Manuscript and its Prosopographical Context / Theo van Heijnsbergen 183 'The Dialogue of the Twa Wyfeis': Maitland, Machiavelli and the Propaganda of the Scottish Civil War / Mark Loughlin 226 The Regent Morton's Visitation: the Reformation of Aberdeen, 1574 / Allan White 246 'Some helpes for young Schollers': a New Source of Early Scottish Psalmody / Kenneth Elliott 264 'Melvillian' Reform in the Scottish Universities / James Kirk 276 Preaching to the Converted? Perspectives on the Scottish Reformation / Michael Lynch 301 'M. Alex: Boyde.': the Authorship of 'Fra banc to banc' / Robert Donaldson 344 'Durkan & Ross' and Beyond / Brian Hillyard 367 'Glanvill' Resarcinate: Sir John Skene and 'Regiam Majestatem' / Hector L. MacQueen 385 Some Rare Scottish Books in the Old Royal Library / T. A. Birrell 404 Writings of John Durkan, 1931-1994 / Peter W. Asplin 417