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Six Scottish Courtly and Chivalric Poems, Including Lyndsay's Squyer Meldrum

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edited by Rhiannon Purdie and Emily Wingfield
2018
Published by: Medieval Institute Publications
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These six poems explore some of the courtly and chivalric themes that preoccupied late medieval Scottish society. The volume includes Sir David Lyndsay's Historie and Testament of Squyer Meldrum, as well as his Answer to the Kingis Flyting; and three anonymous fifteenth-century poems: Balletis of the Nine Nobles, Complaint for the Death of Margaret, Princess of Scotland, and Talis of the Fyve Bestes.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Title Page, Copyright Page

pp. i-iv

Contents

pp. v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp. vii-viii

General Introduction

pp. 1-10

The Balletis of the Nine Nobles

Introduction

pp. 11-20

Text

pp. 21-22

Explanatory Notes

pp. 23-30

Textual Notes

pp. 31-32

Complaint for the Death of Margaret, Princess of Scotland

Introduction

pp. 33-48

Text

pp. 49-56

Explanatory Notes

pp. 57-68

Textual Notes

pp. 69-72

The Talis of the Fyve Bestes

Introduction

pp. 73-90

Text

pp. 91-102

Explanatory Notes

pp. 103-116

Textual Notes

pp. 117-118

Biography of Sir David Lyndsay

pp. 119-126

The Answer Quhilk Schir David Lindesay Maid to the Kingis Flyting

Introduction

pp. 127-134

Text

pp. 135-138

Explanatory Notes

pp. 139-148

The Squyer Meldrum Poems

Introduction to the Squyer Meldrum Poems

pp. 149-182

The Historie of ane Nobil and Vailyeand Squyer, William Meldrum, umquhyle Laird of Cleische and Bynnis

pp. 183-218

The Testament of the Nobill and Vailyeand Squyer William Meldrum of the Bynnis

pp. 219-226

Explanatory Notes to Historie of Squyer Meldrum

pp. 227-260

Explanatory Notes to Testament of Squyer Meldrum

pp. 261-270

Appendix: The Lawson and Haldane Family Trees

pp. 271-274

Bibliography

pp. 275-296
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