Woman And The Feminine In Medieval And Early Modern Scottish Writing Book

	Acknowledgements
	List of abbreviations
	Contributors
	Introduction
Pt. 1	'Written woman'
1	The dangers of manly woman : late medieval perceptions of female heroism in Scotland's second war of independence	3
2	War and truce : women in The Wallace	19
3	Chrystis Kirk on the Grene and Peblis to the Ploy : the economy of gender	31
4	Women fictional and historic is Sir David Lyndsay's poetry	47
5	Chastity in the stocks : women, sex, and marriage in Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis	61
6	The 'Fenzeit' and the feminine : Robert Henryson's Orpheus and Eurydice and the gendering of poetry	74
Pt. 2	'Writing women'
7	A methodology for reading against the culture : anonymous, women poets, and the Maitland Quarto Manuscript (c.1586)	89
8	An unequal correspondence : epistolary and poetic exchanges between Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth of England	104
9	Daughterly desires : representing and reimagining the feminine in Ann Hume's Triumphs	120
10	'Neither out nor in' : Scottish Gaelic women poets 1650-1750	136
11	Holy terror and love divine : the passionate voice in Elizabeth Melville's Ane Godlie Dreame	153
12	Lilias Skene : a Quaker poet and her 'cursed self'	162
13	Scottish women's religious narrative, 1660-1720 : constructing the evangelical self	178
Pt. 3	'Archival women'
14	Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross : 3500 new lines of verse	195
15	Early modern women's writing in the Edinburgh archives, c.1550-1740 : a preliminary checklist	201
	Index	227