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
The author of the fifteenth-century Older Scots romance of Rauf Coilyear may be unknown, but the popularity of this comic king-in-disguise tale is undisputed; it is cited by William Dunbar and Gavin D
This book is a resource on which all scholars interested in Older Scots can draw. It is interdisciplinary in ambition: those interested in literary form in Older Scottish literature will be provided
This volume contains eleven Scottish examples of particular kinds of humorous writing - comic, parodic, and satiric - of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Previously unavailable in modern sc
Written at the very end of the seventeenth century, The Phanaticks (previously known as The Assembly) satirises in dramatic form contemporary political and religious affairs, presenting some well-know
The "Maitland Quarto" is an anthology of some ninety-five poems, dating from the sixteenth century, and composed by members of the leading and influential Scottish Maitland family an
