This is the definitive programme for the Montgomerie conference as 
advertised earlier on the Scottish Literature e-mail distribution 
list. No changes in the programme, but now with definite time slots, 
prices, etc.


Alexander Montgomerie, Scotland's `Maister Poet' 

In commemoration of the quartercentenary of the death of Alexander 
Montgomerie (c.1545-1598), the foremost poet of the reign of James VI, 
the Scottish Renaissance Seminar in cooperation with the 
Glasgow-Strathclyde School of Scottish Studies and with the School of 
English of Glasgow University organizes a one-day conference (with 
a musical intermezzo) on  Saturday 24 October 1998 in lecture hall 
G466 (also known as G29) of Glasgow University. This room is in the 
West Quadrangle of the Main Building on University Avenue (staircase 
marked `G', second floor; there is an elevator right up to the door 
of the lecture hall).

Programme: 

9.30-10.00 Registration and Coffee

10.00-10.10 Welcome

10.10-10.45 Dr Sarah Dunnigan (Glasgow) - Female Gifts: rhetoric, 
beauty and the beloved in the lyrics of Alexander Montgomerie

10.45-11.20 Dr Morna Fleming  (Dalgety Bay) - `And so her voice and 
shape alike were new': Montgomerie, Stewart of Baldynneis and James 
VI and their translations of French lyric poetry

11.20-11.35 Coffee / Tea

11.35-12.25 Prof. Roderick Lyall (Amsterdam) - Montgomerie and the 
Mannerist moment

12.25-13.10 Rob MacKillop (lute) and Paul Rendall (tenor) 
present 9 songs by Montgomerie from their new Montgomerie cd

13.10 end of morning programme

14.15-14.50 Dr Gerry Carruthers (Stratchclyde) - Form and Substance 
in the Poetry of the Castalian Band

14.50-15.40 Dr Sally Mapstone (Oxford) - Difference, dissidence and 
plagiarism: flyting and invective at the court of James VI (on The 
Flyting of Montgomerie and Polwart)

15.40-15.55 Tea / Coffee

15.55-16.45 Prof Murray Pittock (Strathclyde) - From Edinburgh to 
London: Scottish Court Culture and 1603

16.45 Close

followed by a general meeting of the Scottish Renaissance Seminar 
(members only)

Price (pay on the door)
£6.00 (includes tea / coffee) £3.00 for Scottish Renaissance Seminar members

There will be an opportunity to join the Scottish Renaissance Seminar 
on the day, before and during the conference (£5.00 unwaged, £7.50 
waged).

For more information, contact:

Theo van Heijnsbergen
Department of Scottish Literature
University of Glasgow
0141-330.4534
e-mail: [log in to unmask]



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