The Bruce

Date:	1375
Langue:	Anglais (écossais)
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Forme:	Vers
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Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

Altenglische Sprachproben nebst einem Wörterbuche, unter Mitwirkung von Karl Goldbeck herausgegeben von Eduard Mätzner, Berlin, Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1867-1888, 5 t. en 2 vol. (ici t. 1:1, p. 371-387) [IA: t. 1:1, t. 1:2, t. 2:1, t. 2:2, t. 2:3]
Édition d'un extrait.
A Literary Middle English Reader, edited by Albert Stanburrough Cook, Boston etc., Ginn, 1915, xxviii + 554 p. (ici p. 237-247) [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Édition d'extraits.
Barbour's Bruce: "A! Fredome is a Noble Thing!", edited by Matthew P. M. McDiarmid and James A. C. Stevenson, Edinburgh, Scottish Text Society (Scottish Text Society, 12, 13, 15), 1980-1985, 3 t.

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- The Chief Middle English Poets: Selected Poems, newly rendered and edited, with notes and bibliographical references by Jessie L. Weston, Boston etc., Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Riverside Press, [1914], xi + 396 p. (ici p. 26-32) [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
  Réimpression:
  - New York, Phaeton Press, 1968
  Traduction partielle.
- John Barbour, The Bruce, translated by Archie A. M. Duncan, Edinburgh, Canongate Books, 1999, viii + 792 p.

Études

Ebin, Lois, « John Barbour's Bruce: poetry, history and propaganda », Studies in Scottish Literature, 9, 1971-1972, p. 218-242.
Goldstein, R. James, « "Freedom is a noble thing!": the ideological project of John Barbour's Bruce », Scottish Language and Literature: Medieval and Renaissance, éd. Dietrich Strauss et Horst W. Drescher, Frankfurt, 1986, p. 193-206.
Goldstein, R. James, The Matter of Scotland: Historical Narrative in Medieval Scotland, London, 1993.

Kliman, Bernice W., « The idea of chivalry in John Barbour's Bruce », Mediaeval Studies, 35, 1973, p. 477-508.

Kliman, Bernice W., « Speech as a mirror of Sapientia and Fortitudo in Barbour's Bruce », Medium Ævum, 44, 1975, p. 151-161.

McDiarmid, Matthew P., « The Northern initiative: John of Fordun, John Barbour and the author of the Saints' Legends », Literature of the North, éd. David Hewitt et Michael Spiller, Aberdeen, Aberdeen University Press, 1983, p. 1-13. [IA]

McKim, Anne M., The Bruce: a Study of John Barbour's Heroic Deal, Ph. D. thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1979.

McKim, Anne M., « James Douglas and Barbour's ideal of knighthood », Forum for Modern Language Studies, 17, 1981, p. 167-180.

McKim, Anne M., « "Gret price off chewalry": Barbour's debt to Fordun », Studies in Scottish Literature, 24, 1989, p. 7-29.

Utz, Hans, « "If freedom fail…": "freedom" in John Barbour's The Bruce », English Studies, 50, 1969, p. 151-165.

Watt, Diane, « Nationalism in Barbour's Bruce », Parergon, 12:1, 1994, p. 89-107. DOI: 10.1353/pgn.1994.0009

Œuvre de John Barbour

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