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J. Derrick McClure and Michael R. G. Spiller, eds.
Bryght Lanternis: Essays on the Language and Literature of Medieval and Renaissance Scotland.
Aberdeen U.P., 1989.
ISBN 0080365930;
ISBN-13: 9780080365930.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: University Press, Aberdeen.
Size: 152x227x27mm.
Page count: xiii,481pp.
Main language: English; quotations given without translation.
Overall condition good: this copy has some scuffs and creases on the covers, some wear at the edges and corners; page edges a little grubby; the spine is scuffed but not creased from reading, and the text appears to be free of marking. 

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Weight without packaging: 798g.

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Contents:
Buchan, Folk tradition & literature till 1603;
McDiarmid, Scottish makars & ballad tradition;
Medwin, Views of king & people in 16th- & 17th c. ballads;
Lyall, Lost literature of medieval Scotland;
Turbet, Scotland’s greatest composer — Robert Carver (1487-1566);
Nicolaisen, Stories & storytelling in Barbour’s Brus;
Scheibe, Aspects of the snake in Legends of the Saints;
Walsh, Golagros & Gawane — a word for peace;
Bitterling, Literary traditions of 'Colkelbie's Sow';
MacColl, Beginning & ending The Kingis Quair;
Stewart, Austrian connection c.1450-83 — Eleonora & intertextuality of Pontus und Sidonia;
Kindrick, Henryson & Ars Dictaminis;
Bawcutt, Elrich fantasyis in Dunbar & other poets;
Norman, William Dunbar — grand rhetoriqueur;
Hasler, Dunbar — the elusive subject;
Burness, Dunbar & the nature of bawdy;
Jung, Dunbar & the morris dancers;
Archibald, Gavin Douglas on love — prologue to Eneados IV;
Williams, Voices of David Lyndsay's poems;
Schwend, Scottish kirk in medieval & Renaissance literature;
Atkinson, Religious personality of John Knox;
Farrow, Rhetorical application of syntax in Knox's Familiar Epistles to Mrs Bowes;
Mapstone, John Ireland & the 4 daughters of God;
McDonald, Ireland’s literary sensibility — Meroure of Wyssdome, Book 7;
Reid, Rutherford as enthusiast;
Parkinson, Montgomerie's language;
Spiller, Romances of Patrick Gordon;
Hargreaves, Crathes Ceiling Inscriptions;
Meek, Orthography & contents of Book of Dean of Lismore;
Mac Giolla Léith, Saga to folktale — 'Deirdre Story' in Gaelic tradition;
Macrae-Gibson, The other Scottish language — Orkneyinga Saga;
Macafee, Middle Scots dialects — extrapolating backwards;
Kniezsa, Sources of <I> diagraphs — place-name evidence;
Meurman-Solin, Helsinki corpus of older Scots;
Calder, 'Weasel Scot' — characteristics of Shakespearian depiction in Henry V & 1 Henry IV;
Angus, Scotching of Shakespeare.

Notes: at end of each chapter
Tables: no
Illustrations: 12, monochrome
Maps & plans: 5
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: no

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