Barbour’s
Bruce (c. 1375) is the oldest substantial piece of literature in Older Scots. It narrates in four-stress couplets the feats of Robert Bruce and his supporters, most notably James Douglas and Thomas Randolph. Their heroic activities, including battles against odds and clever out-manoeuvrings as well as open warfare, provide opportunities for discussion of good leadership, the celebration of freedom, and a construction of Scottishness alongside a narrative with enough verifiable historical detail to make it compelling and convincing. Barbour’s narrative implicitly locates Bruce and Douglas against European traditions of the Nine Worthies, particularly Alexander, and shows a sophisticated sense of structure in the central placing of Bannockburn and Bruce’s speech on freedom.
This edition by Mc Diarmid and Stevenson, out of print for several years, is now reissued by the Scottish Text Society. In addition to the text, it provides a full introduction, notes and a glossary.
Tabela de Conteúdo
Volume I
General Introduction
Synopsis of the Narrative
Textual Notes
Commentary
Appendix I: Lines from Wyntoun’s Cronykil
Appendix II: The ‘Edinburgh’ Rubrics
Appendix III: Conversion Factors
Glossary
Persons and Places in the text
Volume II
Textual and Editorial Introduction
Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Book V
Book VI
Book VII
Book VIII
Book IX
Book X
Volume III
Book XI
Book XII
Book XIII
Book XIV
Book XV
Book XVI
Book XVII
Book XVIII
Book XIX
Book XX
Sobre o autor
J.A.C. Stevenson was a leading scholar and philologist of his generation, and his edition of the Bruce is still standard.
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