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John Barbour
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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 wars of independence between England and Scotland, is an important and complicated text. Composed c.1375 during the reign of Robert's grandson, Robert II, the first Stewart king of Scotland (1371-90), the poem represents the earliest surviving complete literary work of any length produced in "Inglis" in late medieval Scotland, andis usually regarded as the starting point for any worthwhile discussion of the language and literature of Early Scots. It has also been used as an essential "historical" so...
John Barbour
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John Barbour
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John Barbour
Excerpt from John Barbour: Poet and Translator I come from Scotland to plead against eminent Germans, Englishmen, and Scotsmen for a Scottish poet, and to maintain his claim to translations some of which were directly part of the educative processes fitting him to produce his great original historical chanson de geste. A national heirloom was added to the treasury of Scotland when John Barbour, Archdeacon of Aberdeen, completed under Robert II, the first of the Stewart kings, his poem of The Bruce. Editors and others have somehow failed to notice that the author's note about the "tyme of the compyling of this buk," giving four different methods of computation of the date and expressly naming...
Infantry Warfare in the Early Fourteenth Century
This book departs from the conventional view of the dominance of cavalry in medieval warfare, demonstrating the importance of infantry, and the nature of infantry tactics, through a detailed examination of 19 battles fought between 1302 and 1347.
