The History and Chronicles of Scotland

…a prima gentis origine (1526; The History and Chronicles of Scotland). Boece’s history is a glorification of the Scottish nation, based on legendary sources, and is more interesting as romance than as history. It had wide currency abroad in a French translation, and the plot of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is…

It was published as The History and Chronicles of Scotland in 1536, prefaced by an original poem entitled A Proheme to the Cosmographe and later reprinted separately under the various titles of Vertue and Vyce and An Allegory of Virtue and Delyte. Written in a fluent and vivid style,…