Dictionary definition: ‘Kingis Quair’

Encyclopedia entry: ‘Kingis Quair’
The Oxford Companion to British History;      335 words ...‘Kingis Quair’. A poem now generally accepted to have been written ... s incarceration, his love for his future queen, and their eventual marriage. This is linked to an allegorical account of the king's journey ...

Encyclopedia entry: Kingis Quair, The
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature;      320 words ...Kingis Quair, The, ‘The King's Book’ , a poem of 379 lines of rhyme-royal written by James I of Scotland while he ...

Article: The Kingis Quair
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      265 words ...The Kingis Quair see James I , king of Scotland.

Article: Joanna Martin, Kingship and Love in Scottish Poetry, ...
Medium Aevum;  March 22, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... diverse array of Scottish poems from The Kingis Quair to Sir David Lyndsay's Testament of ... be detected in the reception of The Kingis Quair, which initiated the Scots theme of ... The Scots poems accompanying The Kingis Quair offer a 'pessimistic gloss on the amatory ...

Article: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and 'The Kinis Quair': A Facsimile ...
The Modern Language Review;  October 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and 'The Kingis Quair': A Facsimile of Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Arch. Selden. B.24. With an introduction by JULIA BOFFEY and A. S. G ...

Article: Review: Books: Paperbacks
The Sunday Telegraph London;  July 16, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Lownie Methuen, pounds 9.99 EDINBURGH HAS always been a nest of singing birds, ever since James I of Scotland composed The Kingis Quair, but you won't find him here, nor William Drummond. Andrew Low nie is after more recent ghosts, his natural favourite ...

Article: Joanna Summers, Late-Medieval Prison Writing and the Politics of ...
Medium Aevum;  September 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... five chapters and an epilogue discuss in turn 'Thomas Usk and the Testament of Love', 'James I of Scotland and the Kingis Quair?, 'Charles d'Orleans and his English Book of Lore', 'The Testimony of William Thorpe and the Trial of Richard Wyche ...