5. ‘Tradition’ and Literature in the Medieval Period

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Editor’s Preface vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. The Roots of Living Tradition 7
7. 2. Genre 14
8. 3. Folk Belief and Scottish Traditional Literatures 26
9. 4. Transmission 35
10. 5. ‘Tradition’ and Literature in the Medieval Period 42
11. 6. Vernacular Gaelic Tradition 51
12. 7. The Early Modern Period 63
13. 8. The Heroic Ballads of Gaelic Scotland 74
14. 9. Eighteenth-Century Antiquarianism 85
15. 10. Lowland Song Culture in the Eighteenth Century 94
16. 11. Tradition and Scottish Romanticism 105
17. 12. Nineteenth-Century Highland and Island Folklore 114
18. 13. Tradition and Innovation in Twentieth-Century Scottish Gaelic Literature 123
19. 14. The Politics of the Modern Scottish Folk Revival 134
20. 15. Continuing the Living Tradition 144
21. Endnotes 153
22. Further Reading 199
23. Notes on Contributors 206
24. Index 209