Duncane Laideus Testament and Other Comic Poems in Older Scots

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Poetry anthologies (various po

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Wordery

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Boydell & brewer ltd

Duncane Laideus Testament and Other Comic Poems in Older Scots : Scottish Text Society : 9781897976388 : 1897976380 : 20 Oct 2016 : 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 scholarly editions, these worksare freshly established from diverse sources, including the manuscript that is the earliest extant of John Knox's "Historie of the Reformatioun of Religioun". A manuscript owned by the Campbell of Glenorchy family is the source ofthe volume's most substantial work, Duncane Laideus Testament; the poem's bicultural outlook provides an important reference point for historians, as well as scholars of early Scottish and Gaelic literature. Other texts include David Lyndsay's The Complaint of Bagsche and the anonymous "My gudame wes a gay

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