Barbour`s Bruce and its Cultural Contexts – Politics, Chivalry and Literature in Late Medieval Scotland

Introduction: King Robert the Bruce's Book - Steven Boardman and Susan Foran The Manuscript and Print Contexts of Barbour's Bruce - Emily Wingfield Medieval Romance and the Generic Frictions of Barbour's Bruce - Rhiannon Purdie Scripting the National Past: A Textual Community of the Realm - Theo van Heijnsbergen Chivalric Biography and Medieval Life-Writing - Christopher Given-Wilson The Vocabulary of Chivalric Description in Late Fourteenth-Century Biography - Diana Tyson A Nation of Knights? Chivalry and the Community of the Realm in Barbour's Bruce - Susan Foran John Barbour's Scholastic Discourse on Thraldom - Biörn Tjällén Rethinking Scottish Origins - Dauvit Broun 'Thar nobill eldrys gret bounte': The Bruce and early Stewart Scotland - Steven Boardman Barbour's Bruce in the 1480s: Literature and Locality - Michael H Brown