Steve Boardman is Professor in Medieval Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh. He has written monographs on the Early Stewart kings and the history of the Clan Campbell, edited several books, and published articles on various aspects of the political and cultural life of late medieval Scotland.
6 Ebooks by Rhiannon Purdie
Rhiannon Purdie & Rhiannon Purdie: Six Scottish Courtly and Chivalric Poems, Including Lyndsay’s Squyer Meldrum
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 …
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€20.54
Susan Foran & Steven Boardman: Barbour’s Bruce and its Cultural Contexts
Fresh approaches to one of the most important poems from medieval Scotland. John Barbour’s Bruce, an account of the deeds of Robert I of Scotland (1306-29) and his companions during the so-called war …
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€29.99
Rhiannon Purdie & Nicola Royan: The Scots and Medieval Arthurian Legend
First full-length exploration of the Arthurian legend in Scotland. Scotland’s importance in Arthurian legend is undeniable: it was the traditional homeland of key figures such as Gawain; its landscap …
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€29.99
Rhiannon Purdie: Anglicising Romance
A reappraisal of the tail-rhyme form so strongly associated with medieval English romance, and how it became so appropriated. Tail-rhyme romance unites a French genre with a continental stanza form, …
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€28.99
Rhiannon Purdie & Michael Cichon: Medieval Romance, Medieval Contexts
The popular genre of medieval romance explored in its physical, geographical, and literary contexts. The essays in this volume take a representative selection of English and Scottish romances from th …
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€29.99
Judith A. Jefferson & Ad Putter: The Transmission of Medieval Romance
The genre of medieval romance examined through the lens of their physical and their metrical forms. Romances were immensely popular with medieval readers, as evidenced by their ubiquity in manuscript …
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€28.99
