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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface viii
4. Introduction
5. 1 Scottish Literature: Criticism and the Canon 1
6. 2 The Study of Scottish Literature 16
7. Until 1314
8. 3 One Kingdom from many Peoples: History until 1314 33
9. 4 The Topography of People’s Lives: Geography until 1314 44
10. 5 The Lion’s Tongues: Languages in Scotland to 1314 52
11. 6 The Poetry of the Court: Praise 63
12. 7 Aneirin, the Gododdin 72
13. 8 Norse Literature in the Orkney Earldom 77
14. 9 Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh and the Classical Revolution 83
15. 10 Saving Verse: Early Medieval Religious Poetry 91
16. 11 Hagiography 103
17. 12 Adomnán of Iona and his Prose Writings 110
18. 13 Theology, Philosophy and Cosmography 115
19. 14 A Fragmentary Literature: Narrative and Lyric from the Early Middle Ages 123
20. 1314–1707
21. 15 Land and Freedom: Scotland, 1314–1707 133
22. 16 Emergent Nation: Scotland’s Geography, 1314–1707 144
23. 17 The Several Tongues of a Single Kingdom: The Languages of Scotland, 1314–1707 153
24. 18 The International Reception and Literary Impact of Scottish Literature of the Period 1314 until 1707 164
25. 19 Versions of Scottish Nationhood, c. 850–1707 168
26. 20 From Rome to Ruddiman: The Scoto-Latin Tradition 184
27. 21 Creation and Compilation: The Book of the Dean of Lismore and Literary Culture in Late Medieval Gaelic Scotland 209
28. 22 Gaelic Literature in the Later Middle Ages: The Book of the Dean and beyond 219
29. 23 Philosophy and Theology in Scotland before the Reformation 226
30. 24 Scottish Theological Literature, 1560–1707 231
31. 25 Legal Writing, 1314–1707 238
32. 26 Literature, Art and Architecture 245
33. 27 Performances and Plays 253
34. 28 Balladry: A Vernacular Poetic Resource 263
35. 29 Older Scots Literature and the Court 273
36. 30 Robert Henryson 286
37. 31 William Dunbar 295
38. 32 Sìleas na Ceapaich 305
39. Notes on Contributors – Volume One 315
40. Index 319