Terrell, Scripting the Nation: Court Poetry and the Authority of History in Late Medieval Scotland.

This text examines the construction and evolution of Scottish national identity through historical narratives from the medieval chroniclers Fordun and Bower to the poets William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas. It highlights how Scottish texts engaged with English models in a largely one-sided dialogue, emphasizing genealogical inheritance and vernacular literature to assert a distinct Scottish identity. The analysis includes the use of historiographical techniques, vernacular verse, and translations such as Douglas's Eneados to appropriate and transform English cultural authority. The work also addresses internal divisions within Scotland, particularly between Scots and Gaels, and concludes by noting the shifting narratives under James VI's reign as he sought to promote a broader British identity.