Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Steve Boardman is Professor in Medieval Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh. He has written monographs on the Early Stewart kings and the history of the Clan Campbell, edited several books, and published articles on various aspects of the political and cultural life of late medieval Scotland. MICHAEL BROWN is Professor of Scottish History, University of St Andrews. Steve Boardman is Professor in Medieval Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh. He has written monographs on the Early Stewart kings and the history of the Clan Campbell, edited several books, and published articles on various aspects of the political and cultural life of late medieval Scotland.

Reviews

Impressively wide-ranging and informative, engaging with the poem's historical, political, social, theoretical, and codicological environments.[It is] an important addition to the body of critical literature that focuses on Barbour's poem.
*INNES REVIEW*

A valuable contribution to the historiography of late medieval Scotland, and demonstrates the need for those beyond Scotland to pay much closer attention to The Bruce..[It] should be required reading for any scholar of chivalry.
*ROYAL STUDIES JOURNAL*

Makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Barbour's Bruce; as a collection, the volume offers both strong individual readings and intriguing and rich connections between different chapters and different approaches.
*REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES*