History, Literature, and Music in Scotland, 700-1560.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

R. Andrew McDonald, ed. History, Literature, and Music in Scotland, 700-1560. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2002. Pp. xviii, 234. $45.00. ISBN 0-8020-3601-5.

Aside from their concern with medieval Scotland, this collection of essays is not drawn together by any coherent themes or unifying lines of inquiry. Accordingly, the Introduction largely comprises a triumphalist celebration of the growing amount of Scottish historical writing since the 1960s. Although it briefly suggests that some of the methodologies used in several of the essays might possibly be adopted in other ...

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