Add to ORKGThe life of William Wallace has been one of the great themes of Scottish Literature since the Middle Ages. No pretence is made of offering a comprehensive catalogue of works on him which would be both boring and incomplete. Instead, it is proposed to examine and compare how different writers at different times have developed and contributed to the theme. The relationship between Literature and History is like a difficult marriage: the two cannot agree, yet they cannot live apart. In earlier society there was no distinction between Literature and History: the bard was the singer and the chronicler, he wrote, or recited rather, with an immediate and practical purpose, the glorification of his patron and his family. The skills were those of rh...
This work explores Sir Walter Scott’s engagement with the classical past as it emerges, in a selecti...
The main purpose of this thesis is to expound the notion that the fourteenth-century poet John Barb...
In recent years there has been a renewed interest in the old Scots poets, not least in William Dunb...
A deconstruction of the national biography and mythology of William Wallace. Freed from the historia...
To the Scots William Wallace has always been a popular figure. Even those with a limited knowledge o...
The object of this paper is to give a brief outline of the life of William Wallace, and to make refe...
The initial concerns of this study were twofold. Firstly, that it would find that Robert Bruce only ...
Braveheart is a novel that tells about the struggle of the people of Scotland to gain their freedom ...
Throughout my thesis, I will be trying to show the impact of the fight of William Wallace (and other...
That the Scots were identified as separate people by the late tenth and early eleventh century can b...
William Wallace, popularized in the twentieth century through Mel Gibson’s portrayal in Braveheart, ...
This dissertation systematically evaluates the historicity of the epic poem The Bruce, written towar...
[Abstract] The Bruce by John Barbour has been traditionally regarded as the landmark of Scottish lit...
This is not primarily a biography of Henry Mackenzie, Esq., of Edinburgh. It is the first attempt e...
"This history of Sir William Wallace, with the other of the valiant King Robert Bruce, which followe...
This work explores Sir Walter Scott’s engagement with the classical past as it emerges, in a selecti...
The main purpose of this thesis is to expound the notion that the fourteenth-century poet John Barb...
In recent years there has been a renewed interest in the old Scots poets, not least in William Dunb...
A deconstruction of the national biography and mythology of William Wallace. Freed from the historia...
To the Scots William Wallace has always been a popular figure. Even those with a limited knowledge o...
The object of this paper is to give a brief outline of the life of William Wallace, and to make refe...
The initial concerns of this study were twofold. Firstly, that it would find that Robert Bruce only ...
Braveheart is a novel that tells about the struggle of the people of Scotland to gain their freedom ...
Throughout my thesis, I will be trying to show the impact of the fight of William Wallace (and other...
That the Scots were identified as separate people by the late tenth and early eleventh century can b...
William Wallace, popularized in the twentieth century through Mel Gibson’s portrayal in Braveheart, ...
This dissertation systematically evaluates the historicity of the epic poem The Bruce, written towar...
[Abstract] The Bruce by John Barbour has been traditionally regarded as the landmark of Scottish lit...
This is not primarily a biography of Henry Mackenzie, Esq., of Edinburgh. It is the first attempt e...
"This history of Sir William Wallace, with the other of the valiant King Robert Bruce, which followe...
This work explores Sir Walter Scott’s engagement with the classical past as it emerges, in a selecti...
The main purpose of this thesis is to expound the notion that the fourteenth-century poet John Barb...
In recent years there has been a renewed interest in the old Scots poets, not least in William Dunb...