The Renaissance in Scotland: Studies in Literature, Religion, History and Culture Offered to John Durkan

454 Pages·1994·26.023 MB·English

by  Alasdair A. MacDonald, Michael Lynch, Ian B. Cowan (eds.)

BRILL'S STUDIES
IN
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
General Editor
A J. VANDERJAGT, University of Groningen
Editorial Board
M. COLISH, Oberlin College
J.I. ISRAEL, University College, London
J.D. NORTH, University of Groningen
H.A. OBERMAN, University of Arizona, Tucson
R.H. POPKIN, Washington University, St. Louis-UCLA
VOLUME 54
THE RENAISSANCE
IN SCOTLAND
Studies in Literature, Religion, History and Culture
Offered to John Durkan
EDITED BY
A.A. MACDONALD, MICHAEL LYNCH
AND
IAN B. COWAN
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E.J. BRILL
LEIDEN · NEW YORK · KÖLN
1994
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The Renaissance in Scotland : studies in literature, religion,
history, and culture offered to John Durkan / edited by A. A.
MacDonald, Michael Lynch, and Ian B. Cowan.
p. cm. — (Brill's studies in intellectual history, ISSN
0920-8607 ; v. 54)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 9004100970 (cloth)
1. Scotland—History—16th century. 2. Scotland—History—15th
century. 3. Renaissance—Scotland. I. MacDonald, A. A. (Alasdair
A.) II. Lynch, Michael, 1946- . III. Cowan, Ian Borthwick.
IV. Series.
DA784.R47 1994
941.104—dc20 94-26032
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The Renaissance in Scotland : studies in literature, religion,
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements VII
Contributors IX
Abbreviations and Conventions XI
Illustrations XXI
Foreword XXIII
The Scots Büke ofPhisnomy and Sir Gilbert Hay 1
Sally Mapstone
The Latin Original of Robert Henryson's Annunciation Lyric 45
A.A. MacDonald
William Elphinstone's Library Revisited 66
Leslie J. Macfarlane
James Liddell on Concepts and Signs 82
Alexander Broadie
New Light on Gavin Douglas 95
Priscilla Bawcutt
The Asloan Manuscript 107
I.C. Cunningham
The Cathedral Clergy of Dunkeld in the Early Sixteenth
Century 136
Ian B. Cowan with Michael J. Yellowlees
The Invention of Tradition, Highland-Style 144
William Gillies
Glasgow University's Copy of Robert Richardon's Exegesis in
canonem divi Augustini 157
Stephen Rawles
Canons Regular and the Reformation 164
Mark Dilworth OSB
VI CONTENTS
The Interaction between Literature and History in Queen
Mary's Edinburgh: the Bannatyne Manuscript and its
Prosopographical Context 183
Theo van Heijnsbergen
'The Dialogue of the Twa Wyfeis': Maitland, Machiavelli and
the Propaganda of the Scottish Civil War 226
Mark Loughlin
The Regent Morton's Visitation: the Reformation of
Aberdeen, 1574 246
Allan White OP
Some helpes for young Schollers: a New Source of Early
Scottish Psalmody 264
Kenneth Elliott
'Melvillian' Reform in the Scottish Universities 276
James Kirk
Preaching to the Converted? Perspectives on the
Scottish Reformation 301
Michael Lynch
'M. Alex: Boyde.': the Authorship of Tra banc to banc' 344
Robert Donaldson
'Durkan & Ross' and Beyond 367
Brian Hillyard
Glanvi//Resarcinate: Sir John Skene and Regiam
Majestatem 385
Hector L. MacQueen
Some Rare Scottish Books in the Old Royal Library 404
T.A. Birrell
Writings of John Durkan, 1931-1994 417
Peter W. Asplin
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The editors wish to record their gratitude to their fellow
contributors and to thank Mrs Anna Cowan and Mr JJ. Robert
son, literary executor of the late Professor Ian B. Cowan, for
permission to include his essay in the volume. We are indebted to
the Columba Trust for a generous subsidy to aid costs of pub
lication. We wish to acknowledge the assistance of the National
Library of Scotland and Glasgow University Library in granting
permission to reproduce the illustrations, drawn from their
respective collections. We also acknowledge the permission given
by Oxford University Press to reproduce the text of a poem from
The Poems of Robert Henry son, edited by Denton Fox (Oxford,
1981).
AAM.
M.L.