The Lily and the Thistle : The French Tradition and the Older Literature of Scotland.

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One - High Courtly Narrative: The Tale of Love -- 1 The Kingis Quair -- 2 Robert Henryson, The Testament of Cresseid -- 3 Gavin Douglas, The Palice of Honour -- 4 William Dunbar, The Goldyn Targe and The Thrissill and the Rois -- 5 John Rolland, The Court of Venus -- Part Two - The Comic, Didactic, and Satiric: A Mode of Clerical Provenance -- 6 Robert Henryson, Morall Fabillis -- 7 William Dunbar, Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo and Public Court Didactic Verse -- 8 David Lyndsay, Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, The Testament of the Papyngo, and Squyer Meldrum -- 9 The Freiris of Berwik -- 10 King Hart -- Part Three - Romance -- 11 Fergus -- 12 Lancelot of the Laik -- 13 Golagros and Gawane -- 14 The Taill of Rauf Coilyear -- 15 Eger and Grime -- Part Four - Scots Renaissance: Soundings -- 16 Mary Queen of Scots -- 17 King James VI -- 18 William Alexander, The Monarchicke Tragedies -- 19 William Drummond of Hawthornden -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

In The Lily and the Thistle, William Calin argues for a reconsideration of the French impact on medieval and renaissance Scottish literature.

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