Rewriting the Past in Scottish Literature, 1350-1550

Considers how Anglo-Scottish conflict was memorialised, reimagined and embedded by later writers.


The Anglo-Scottish Wars of Independence are often treated in historical and poetical works produced in Scotland between the fourteenth and sixteenth century, from chronicles and hagiographical romances to advisory and commemorative poems. Through an examination of such texts, this book explores how late-medieval writers drew on the memory of the wars to articulate a collective identity; and how ...