The Scottish poet George Lauder began as a "university wit", by imitating anti-papal satires popular in the Italian Renaissance. He set off for London as a young man, looking for patronage, but instea
The Gude and Godlie Ballatis is a collection of religious lyrics from the early years of the Scottish Reformation. It was a highly popular, if controversial, volume, was often reprinted, and is consid
Part of a large-scale multidisciplinary research project on societal transformation processes in European history, the 13 papers presented in this volume explore the role of scholarship and educationa
