Gavin Douglas, The Palyce of Honour

Gavin Douglas, The Palyce of Honour

Author: David John Parkinson

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Published: 2018-12-11

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1580444091

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At the end of the fifteenth century, Gavin Douglas devised his ambitious dream vision The Palyce of Honour in part to signal a new scope to Scottish literary culture. While deeply versed in Chaucer's writings, Douglas identified Ovid's Metamorphoses as a particularly timely model in the light of contemporary humanist scholarship. For all its comedy, The Palyce of Honour stands as a reminder to James IV of Scotland that poetry casts a powerful light upon the arts of rule.