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By Joanna Martin

Overdue medieval Scottish poetic narratives which comprise research of the amorousness of kings, this learn areas those poems within the context of Scotland's repeated adventure of minority kings and a consequent instability in governance.The concentration of this learn is the amatory in poetry of a political or advisory nature, written in Scotland among the early 15th and the mid-sixteenth century. Joanna Martin deals new readings of the writings of significant figures within the Scottish literature of the interval, together with Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Sir David Lyndsay. even as, she offers new views on nameless texts, between them "The Thre Prestis of Peblis" and "King Hart", and at the works of much less popular writers akin to John Bellenden and William Stewart, that are an important to our realizing of the literary tradition north of the Border through the interval below dialogue.

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52 See Book II, lines 2145–307. Hercules’s envy and madness are stressed in both the Scottish and English accounts. 53 Contrast Quare of Jelusy, p. 66. The victimization of women is not emphasized in the account of Nero in the Consolation of Philosophy, II, metrum 6. In Chaucer’s ‘Monk’s Tale’ (Canterbury Tales VII, 2463–550) Nero’s pride and ‘delicasie’ are mentioned, but the focus is on his crimes against his family. However, the Confessio Amantis is unusual in foregrounding his insatiable lust and his crimes of rape (VI, 1213–34).

However, the terms of this curse also recall the sinister ‘barge Envie stiereth’ which ‘on the wawes dryve / In gret tempeste and gret debat’ of Genius’s account of ‘Falssemblant’ in the Confessio Amantis (II, 1902, 1906–7). Genius’s image specifically foregrounds the ship of the self under the evil governance of vice. ’ (II, 1882–5). 55 He regards jealousy as an affliction which is now a ‘common’ (247) a part of daily experience, though which ‘in the tyme was of oure elderis’ was held ‘abhominable’ (254–5).

Utley, The Crooked Rib: An Analytical Index to the Argument About Women in English and Scots Literature, Contributions in Language and Literature, 10 (Ohio, 1944), pp. 60, 192, 211, 269, 294. Selden presents its own anti-feminist satire in ‘Deuise proues and eke humylitee’ (IMEV 679, fols 119v–20). The poem is attributed to Chaucer here and in the Bannatyne Manuscript (fols 262v–3r). It was also printed by Chepman and Myllar (STC 7348). Phil Thesis, Oxford University (2002), pp. 113–29. 58 Ovidian female complaint is commonly seen in late medieval literature as a private discourse that tragically fails to change the violent masculine world.

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