The Kingis Quair of James I of Scotland

This is the first, and so far only, full-length study of The Kingis Quair, a Scottish dream-poem written in the first half of the fifteenth century and attributed to James I, King of Scotland. The book analyses the poem offering a state-of-the-art survey of all existing bibliography on the subject, and then centering on a number of themes: the life and times of James I of Sotland, its supposed author and its protagonist; an analysis of the stylistic features of the poem, undertaken thanks to a statistical examination of tokens and types; a discussion of some of the most important philosophical sources of the Kingis Quair; and a final discussion of the role of literary tradition and autobiography in this work.