Associate Professor of English Katherine Terrell recently published an article, “‘Kyndness of blude’: Kinship, Patronage, and Politics in Gavin Douglas,” in “Northern Book Cultures in the Later Middle Ages,” a special issue of the journal Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts and Interpretation.

The article, by focusing on the important role of kinship in Douglas's life and works, attempts to resolve the seeming contradiction between the Scottish nationalism of Douglas's writings and what have sometimes been seen as the pro-English policies of his political career.