The European Sun

"Now worthie folk suppose this be..." - Henryson and allegory; Duns Scotus on intellect and will; Scotland on the European story-telling map; the song of the cherubim; Scottish poetry in the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots; soldiers and divines - Scottish-Danish exchange, 1589-1707; the foundations of cosmopolitan culture - the functions of Scottish emigration before the American colonization; the experience of being a bilingual writer; the legacy of the Makars; literary culture and the early Scottish court; a story of one faith and blood - "Orkneyinga Saga" and the poetics of historical continuity; narrative subjectivity and narrative distancing in James I's "The Kingis Quair"; Gilbert Hay and the problem of sources - the case of the "Buke of the Ordre of Knychthede"; the Scots, the English and the French - an Arthurian episode; turning law into literature - the influence of the "Ars Notaria" on 15th-century Scottish literature; "who knows if all that critics wrote was true?" - some thoughts on Robert Henryson's biography; Robert Henryson on the "thing present"; the European tragedy of Criseyde - the Scottish response; Cresseid as the other - an examination of Henryson's treatment of Cresseid in "The Testament of Cresseid"; Robert Henryson, Pico della Mirandola and late 15th-century heroic humanism; "the Thewis of gud woomen" - Scottish moral advice with European connections?; re-evaluating the case for a Scottish romance of "Eger and Gryme"; lions without villainy and hermaphrodite hares; "the Freiris of Berwik" and the Falbiaux tradition. (Part contents).