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Lament for the Dead in Fifteenth-Century Scotland
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This chapter explores the importance of lament for the dead within historical and romance narratives composed in Scotland between c.1438 and c.1500 in both Older Scots and Latin. The chapter looks in detail at intercalated laments for the dead included in Walter Bower’s Scotichronicon (c.1440–7) and the anonymous Liber Pluscardensis (completed c.1461) as well as in the octosyllabic Buik of Alexander (c.1437), The Wallace (c.1476–8), and Sir Gilbert Hay’s Buik of King Alexander the Conquerour (c.1460–99). The chapter traces a persistent association within these texts between lament for the dead and physical rites of commemoration such as burial and the production of monuments, arguing that lament for the dead provides a means by which reputations can be authoritatively fixed.
Title: Lament for the Dead in Fifteenth-Century Scotland
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This chapter explores the importance of lament for the dead within historical and romance narratives composed in Scotland between c.
1438 and c.
1500 in both Older Scots and Latin.
The chapter looks in detail at intercalated laments for the dead included in Walter Bower’s Scotichronicon (c.
1440–7) and the anonymous Liber Pluscardensis (completed c.
1461) as well as in the octosyllabic Buik of Alexander (c.
1437), The Wallace (c.
1476–8), and Sir Gilbert Hay’s Buik of King Alexander the Conquerour (c.
1460–99).
The chapter traces a persistent association within these texts between lament for the dead and physical rites of commemoration such as burial and the production of monuments, arguing that lament for the dead provides a means by which reputations can be authoritatively fixed.
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