'Out of my contree': visions of royal authority in the courts of James I and James II, 1424-1460

The definition of fifteenth-century Scottish writing as literature which ‘came to the court rather than from it’2 has shaped the landscape of Older Scots literary studies over the last twenty-five years. As a result, we now have a much sharper sense of the extent to which Older Scots works, particul...