Duncane Laideus Testament and other Comic Poems in Older Scots

First modern scholarly edition of a number of late medieval Scottish poems, in the comic tradition.

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 scholarly editions, these worksare freshly established from diverse sources, including the manuscript that is the earliest extant of John Knox's "Historie of the Reformatioun of Religioun". A manusc...