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The Gude and Godlie Ballatis (Scottish Text Society Fifth Series)
Alasdair A. Macdonald (Ed.)
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Description for The Gude and Godlie Ballatis (Scottish Text Society Fifth Series)
Hardcover. New edition of a collection of songs and ballads from sixteenth-century Scotland, shedding important new light on the English and Scottish Reformation. Editor(s): MacDonald, Alasdair A. Series: Scottish Text Society Fifth Series. Num Pages: 425 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACC; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 37. Weight in Grams: 660.
New edition of a collection of songs and ballads from sixteenth-century Scotland, shedding important new light on the English and Scottish Reformation. The Gude and Godlie Ballatis is a collection of religious lyrics from the early years of the Scottish Reformation. It was a highly popular, if controversial, volume, was often reprinted, and is considered one of the most important literary works of vernacular Scots from the period. It contains translations of a number of Psalms, but most of the contents consist of shorter songs and ballads, many of which have been adapted from a secular to a spiritual ... Read more
New edition of a collection of songs and ballads from sixteenth-century Scotland, shedding important new light on the English and Scottish Reformation. The Gude and Godlie Ballatis is a collection of religious lyrics from the early years of the Scottish Reformation. It was a highly popular, if controversial, volume, was often reprinted, and is considered one of the most important literary works of vernacular Scots from the period. It contains translations of a number of Psalms, but most of the contents consist of shorter songs and ballads, many of which have been adapted from a secular to a spiritual ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Scottish Text Society
Condition
New
Number of Pages
425
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781897976418
SKU
V9781897976418
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Ref
99-50
About Alasdair A. Macdonald (Ed.)
Alasdair A. MacDonald is emeritus Professor of English, University of Groningen, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow. He has published widely on medieval and early modern Scottish and English literature and culture.
Reviews for The Gude and Godlie Ballatis (Scottish Text Society Fifth Series)
The GGB was an important and enjoyable publication. So is this compendious new edition of that `compendious buke'.
JOURNAL OF THE EDINBURGH BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
Will be much welcomed by scholars of the Scottish Reformation in particular.
INNES REVIEW
JOURNAL OF THE EDINBURGH BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
Will be much welcomed by scholars of the Scottish Reformation in particular.
INNES REVIEW