Bookshelf

Alumni and faculty members who would like to have their books considered for this listing should contact Stacey Himmelberger, editor of Hamilton magazine. This list, which dates back to 2018, is updated periodically with books appearing alphabetically on the date of entry.

Scripting the Nation: Court Poetry and the Authority of History in Late Medieval Scotland by Katherine H. Terrell, professor of literature

July 1, 2022

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(Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 2021).
This book is the first to set the poets of Scottish King James IV’s court — William Dunbar, Walter Kennedy, and Gavin Douglas — in an extended dialogue with Latin and vernacular traditions of historiography. As one reviewer noted, “Terrell’s elegant study examines how these Scottish writers marked out a distinct realm of Scottish cultural and poetic achievement, appropriating and subverting English literary models in ways that reveal the interplay between literary and historical authority in the scripting of nationhood.”