Much Middle Scots literature was produced by makars, poets with links to the royal court, which included James I (who wrote "The Kingis Quair"). Many of the makars had university education and so were also connected with the Kirk. However, Dunbar's "Lament for the Makaris" (c.1505) provides evidence of a wider tradition of secular writing outside of Court and Kirk now largely lost. Before the advent of printing in Scotland, writers such as Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Walter Kennedy and Gavin Douglas have been seen as leading a golden age in Scottish poetry.