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The Making of the Scottish Dream-Vision provides the first sustained book-length study of Scotland’s engagement with one of the most significant literary forms of the medieval world. The book situates the dream-vision at the heart of Scotland’s literary and intellectual culture, showing how it developed across several centuries, languages, and genres. Moving beyond the traditional focus on dream-poetry, this study demonstrates how the dream-vision intersected with romance, chronicle, epic, and theological writing, reshaping our understanding of Scotland’s pre-Reformation literary canon. Close analysis of both manuscript and print traditions traces how Scottish writers and readers reimagined the dream-vision, establishing a distinctive and enduring contribution. By asking who read these texts, when, and how, the book sheds new light on the circulation, reception, and cultural function of the dream-vision in Scotland. In so doing, The Making of the Scottish Dream-Vision seeks to open new methodological and comparative pathways for exploring the global history of the dream-vision.

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Kylie Murray completed her degrees in English at St Andrews and Oxford with generous support from the AHRC and Scottish International Education Trust. She held a British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at Balliol College, Oxford, and was subsequently appointed Fellow and Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge, after holding Fellowships at Harvard, Bristol, and Glasgow. She is the founder and owner of an academic and professional consultancy based between Scotland and London, and continues sharing Scotland’s past with wider audiences through her role as a BBC New Generation Thinker.

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