The focus of this study is court literature in early sixteenth-century England and Scotland. The author examines courtly poetry and drama in the context of a co

A study of the actions and responsibilities of those taking temporary power during the minority of a monarch.

Analyses the relations between nobility, crown and state, first in Scotland and then in the first courts of the unified kingdoms.

An investigation of English and Scottish dream visions written on the cusp of the "Renaissance", teasing out distinctive ideas of authorship which informed thei

The tragic story of Anne Boleyn has been retold over the centuries, yet two key figures in Anne's life-her father Thomas and brother George- are often relegated