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1882
Volume 68, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0078-2122
  • E-ISSN: 2507-0444

Abstract

Abstract

The anonymous fourteenth-century English reports a poem in Latin hexameters written in the aftermath of the battle of Bannockburn. This same poem also appears in Walter Bower’s fifteenth-century . However, in the two chronicles, the lines of this poem are neither identical nor presented in the same order. A comparison of the two versions reveals the extent to which moral discourse, chivalric code, and political prophecy are intermingled with the account of the battle in order to provide different interpretative keys of triumph and defeat. These differences can thus offer an insight into the practice of political propaganda.

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