Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: King Robert the Bruce’s Book
- 1 The Manuscript and Print Contexts of Barbour’s Bruce
- 2 Medieval Romance and the Generic Frictions of Barbour’s Bruce
- 3 Scripting the National Past: A Textual Community of the Realm
- 4 Chivalric Biography and Medieval Life-Writing
- 5 The Vocabulary of Chivalric Description in Late Fourteenth-Century Biography
- 6 A Nation of Knights? Chivalry and the Community of the Realm in Barbour’s Bruce
- 7 John Barbour’s Scholastic Discourse on Thraldom
- 8 Rethinking Scottish Origins
- 9 ‘Thar nobill eldrys gret bounte’: The Bruce and Early Stewart Scotland
- 10 Barbour’s Bruce in the 1480s: Literature and Locality
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: King Robert the Bruce’s Book
- 1 The Manuscript and Print Contexts of Barbour’s Bruce
- 2 Medieval Romance and the Generic Frictions of Barbour’s Bruce
- 3 Scripting the National Past: A Textual Community of the Realm
- 4 Chivalric Biography and Medieval Life-Writing
- 5 The Vocabulary of Chivalric Description in Late Fourteenth-Century Biography
- 6 A Nation of Knights? Chivalry and the Community of the Realm in Barbour’s Bruce
- 7 John Barbour’s Scholastic Discourse on Thraldom
- 8 Rethinking Scottish Origins
- 9 ‘Thar nobill eldrys gret bounte’: The Bruce and Early Stewart Scotland
- 10 Barbour’s Bruce in the 1480s: Literature and Locality
- Index
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- Barbour's Bruce and its Cultural ContextsPolitics, Chivalry and Literature in Late Medieval Scotland, pp. 233 - 244Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2015