Gavin Douglas, The Palyce of Honour
ISBN: 9781580444095
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Medieval Institute Publications
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Scottish poetry -- To 1700; Poetry Medieval;

At the end of the fifteenth century, Gavin Douglas devised his ambitious dream vision The Palyce of Honour in part to signal a new scope to Scottish literary culture. While deeply versed in Chaucer's writings, Douglas identified Ovid's Metamorphoses as a particularly timely model in the light of contemporary humanist scholarship. For all its comedy, The Palyce of Honour stands as a reminder to James IV of Scotland that poetry casts a powerful light upon the arts of rule.

David J. Parkinson is a professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan.

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