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Article: The Rose and the Thistle: Essays on the Culture of Late Medieval and Renaissance Scotland.
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- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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The Rose and the Thistle: Essays on the Culture of Late Medieval
and Renaissance Scotland.
Ed. by Sally Mapstone and Juliette Wood. East Lothian: Tuckwell Press.
1998. xi +201 pp. [pound]20.
This collection of essays aims to offer some re-assessments of late medieval and early Renaissance Scottish culture. The conception of such a volume is testimony to the widening interest in such culture, a subject to which a number of the contributors have already made substantial contributions.
The essays on questions of literary relationships are particularly valuable. In the most wide-ranging, Priscilla Bawcutt examines the neglected question of the influence of ...