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Court and Culture in Renaissance Scotland: Sir David Lindsay of the Mount (1486–1555) . By Carol Edington. Pp. x, 276. East Linton: Tuckwell Press. 1995. £30.00.

Court and Culture in Renaissance Scotland: Sir David Lindsay of the Mount (1486–1555) . By Carol... they are found in the Registers. They have to be identified the quite enormous Index of Persons and Places running to 235 through pages. Much trouble has been taken to suggest convincing identifications of proper names which have been misread by Italian clerks or misheard as they were read out by one clerk to another. The size of type has increased since Mrs Fuller's earlier volume, which with the generous spacing of the calendar entries gives these pages a sumptuous appearance that is certainly attractive and helpful to the scholarly skimmer. It is a far cry from the utilitarian parallel publications of the French School at Rome. But the curious variety of styles and colours adopted for the bindings of the four volumes of the revived series that have so far been published prevents it from looking as handsome on the shelf as it deserves to be. It is probably misleading to generalise briefly on the character of this small collection of material for understanding the place of the papacy in Scotland around 1500. It was in the nature of things an illustration of the abnormal rather than the normal when people took the trouble and expense of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Scottish Historical Review Edinburgh University Press

Court and Culture in Renaissance Scotland: Sir David Lindsay of the Mount (1486–1555) . By Carol Edington. Pp. x, 276. East Linton: Tuckwell Press. 1995. £30.00.

ALLAN, DAVID
Scottish Historical Review , Volume 75 (2): 251 – Oct 1, 1996
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they are found in the Registers. They have to be identified the quite enormous Index of Persons and Places running to 235 through pages. Much trouble has been taken to suggest convincing identifications of proper names which have been misread by Italian clerks or misheard as they were read out by one clerk to another. The size of type has increased since Mrs Fuller's earlier volume, which with the generous spacing of the calendar entries gives these pages a sumptuous appearance that is certainly attractive and helpful to the scholarly skimmer. It is a far cry from the utilitarian parallel publications of the French School at Rome. But the curious variety of styles and colours adopted for the bindings of the four volumes of the revived series that have so far been published prevents it from looking as handsome on the shelf as it deserves to be. It is probably misleading to generalise briefly on the character of this small collection of material for understanding the place of the papacy in Scotland around 1500. It was in the nature of things an illustration of the abnormal rather than the normal when people took the trouble and expense of

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Published: Oct 1, 1996

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