Record ID:
35013518 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50021101
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1320~
  • Scotland
Death:
  • 1395-03-13
  • Aberdeen (Scotland)
Associated with:
  • Scotland
Lived/located in:
  • Aberdeen (Scotland)
Fields of activity:
  • Poetry Epic poetry
Occupations:
  • Poets Archdeacons
Used for:
  • Barbour, John, d. 1395
Notes:
  • Wikipedia, 16 October 2017 (John Barbour (poet); (c.1320-13 March 1395); birthplace is not known, though Aberdeenshire and Galloway have made rival claims; died, probably in Aberdeen; was a Scottish poet and the first major named literary figure to write in Scots; His principal surviving work is the historical verse romance, The Brus (The Bruce); is known to have written a number of other works, but other titles definitely ascribed to his authorship, such as The Stewartis Oryginalle (Genealogy of the Stewarts) and The Brut (Brutus), are now lost; his principal patron was Robert II; studied in Oxford and Paris; was latterly Archdeacon of the Kirk of St Machar in Aberdeen)
Local system number:
  • (AuPaJTL)564197
  • abv00029284
  • 000000013617
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC OCoLC DLC StEdNL ANL VJTL