1. Political and cultural background -- 2. Literary and intellectual culture in the Gaelic world -- 3. Scotland and Ireland: the vision of bardic poetry -- 4. Separation and breakdown -- App. I. Bardic poems composed by Irish poets for Scottish patrons and bardic poems composed by Scottish poets for Irish patrons
Summary
In this study, Wilson McLeod challenges the familiar view that Gaelic Scotland and Gaelic Ireland formed a cultural unit during the late Middle Ages and early modern period. He tests the view of a unified Gaelic 'culture-province' by examining the surviving sources, especially formal bardic poetry
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-267) and indexes
