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Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 635-689, September 2026.Abstract Pedro de Ayala served as a diplomat for King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile at the courts of Henry VII, King of England, and James IV, King of Scots. In July 1498, he wrote a letter, partly in cipher, to report to his king and queen on such matters as Spain's interests in international diplomacy; the characters and ...
Adrian William Jaime +2 more
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 764-780, September 2026.Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
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The Campbells: lordship, literature and liminality [PDF]
, 2012 The Campbells have the potential to offer much to the theme of literature and borders, given that the kindred’s astonishing political success in the late medieval and early modern period depended heavily upon the ability to negotiate multiple frontiers ...
MacGregor, M.
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Études Écossaises, 2018 When Britain got involved into WW1, some Irish rebels saw an opportunity to launch a rebellion in order to obtain Home Rule and smuggled weapons from Hamburg in the teeming waters of the British Isles.
Émilie Berthillot
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PLoS ONE, 2016 We investigated the impact of a short intensive language course on attentional functions. We examined 33 participants of a one-week Scottish Gaelic course and compared them to 34 controls: 16 active controls who participated in courses of comparable ...
Thomas H Bak +3 more
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A hill of angels and fairies: Sìthean Mòr, Iona and the dynamics of Scottish onomastics
Namn og Nemne, 2022 This article investigates the place-names of the island of Iona in Scotland, using it as a case-study to consider broader issues relating to theoretical and practical approaches to Scottish onomastics and name-studies more generally.
Sofia Evemalm-Graham
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The banarach (milkmaid) and Scottish Gaelic Pastoral [PDF]
This study of the banarach (‘milkmaid’) in Scottish Gaelic poetry of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries places it within a wider European context of literary and artistic fascination with the figure.
Innes, Sim
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Laboratory Phonology, 2017 When hearing speech, listeners begin recognizing words before reaching the end of the word. Therefore, early sounds impact spoken word recognition before sounds later in the word. In languages like English, most morphophonological alternations affect the
Adam Ussishkin +6 more
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Tradition et changement phonétique dans une variété de contact : l’anglais de Lewis et Harris
Corela, 2018 From a grammatical and lexical point of view, the variety of English spoken in the Outer Hebrides is akin to Standard Scottish English (SSE). From a phonetic and phonological point of view, however, it is absolutely distinctive, mainly because of the ...
Stephan Wilhelm
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