"In Our Awyn Language:" The Nationalist Agenda of Gavin Douglas's
Eneados
by A. E. Christa Cannitz
Douglas's early sixteenth-century translation of the Aeneid into Scots
fulfils three purposes, all nationalist in nature: (1) to give Scots the
status of a national language, capable of supporting a national literature
equal to those of England and classical Rome; (2) to display the
intellectual and artistic level attained by Scottish culture, comparable
to
that of other nations; and (3) to further a linguistic and political
proto-nationalism supported by a strong central monarchy.
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