Rhiannon Purdie
Biographic Data
| ID | 9793910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rhiannon Purdie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rhiannon |
| FAMILY NAME | Purdie |
| SIGNATURE | PURDIE R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Lyndsay’s Meldrum , Hary’s Wallace , and the Craft of History
This article explores the unexpected use that Sir David Lyndsay makes of Hary’s Wallace (c. 1476-1478) in composing his mid-sixteenth-century chivalric biography The Historie and Testament of Squyer Meldrum. Lyndsay’s exploitation of the Wallace, including Wallace’s encounter with the Red Reiver, has hitherto gone almost unremarked thanks to a near-universal assumption that the Historie is entirely based on the true events of Meldrum’s life. This…
The Transmission of Medieval Romance
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Lyndsay’s Meldrum , Hary’s Wallace , and the Craft of History
This article explores the unexpected use that Sir David Lyndsay makes of Hary’s Wallace (c. 1476-1478) in composing his mid-sixteenth-century chivalric biography The Historie and Testament of Squyer Meldrum. Lyndsay’s exploitation of the Wallace, including Wallace’s encounter with the Red Reiver, has hitherto gone almost unremarked thanks to a near-universal assumption that the Historie is entirely based on the true events of Meldrum’s life. This…
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