Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland

accession inaugurated a new style of rule, seeThe Reign of Henry VII:
Proceedings of the 1993 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. Benjamin Thompson
(Stamford, 1995 ), especially Christine Carpenter, “Henry VII and the
English Polity”( 11 – 30 ) and John Watts,“‘A New Ffundacion of is Crowne”:
Monarchy in the Age of Henry VII,” 31 – 53. For alignment of Henry VII’s reign
with other European patterns of nascent absolutism, see Perry Anderson,
Lineages of the Absolutist State(London, 1974 ), 22 , 118 – 28.
85. Discussion in the last decades was stimulated by Elton’s privileging of Thomas
Cromwell’s bureaucratizing work of the 1530 s, the so-called“Tudor Revolution
in Government”: see Elton’s book of that name (Cambridge, 1953 ). For a useful
overview of responses to Elton, see Political Thought and the Tudor
Commonwealth: Deep Structure, Discourse and Disguise, ed. Paul A. Fideler
and T. F. Mayer (London, 1992 ), 1 – 18.
86. William Kuskin,Symbolic Caxton: Literary Culture and Print Capitalism
(Notre Dame, 2008 ), and the essays edited by Kuskin inCaxton’s Trace:
Studies in the History of English Printing(Notre Dame, 2006 ).
87. Harry Berger, Jnr.,“Bodies and Texts,”Representations 17 ( 1987 ), 144 – 66 ( 164 )
repr. inSituated Utterances: Texts, Bodies, and Cultural Representations
(New York, 2005 ), 99 – 128.
88. Ibid., 149.

1 beginnings: andre ́’svita henrici septimi

and dunbar’s aureate allegories

1. On humanism as “gesture” or“activity” rather than identity, see David
   R. Carlson,English Humanist Books: Writers and Patrons, Manuscript and
   Print, 1475 – 1525 (Toronto, 1993 ), 5 ; Daniel Wakelin,Humanism, Reading and
   English Literature 1430 – 1530 (Oxford, 2007 ), 3 – 9.


2. See David R. Carlson,“Politicizing Tudor Court Literature: Gaguin’s Embassy and
   Henry VII’sHumanists’Response,”Studies in Philology 85 ( 1988 ), 279 – 304 ,which
   includes Gaguin’s invective and the responses; John M. Currin,“Persuasions to
   Peace: the Luxembourg-Marigny-Gaguin Embassy and the State of Anglo-French
   Relations,”English Historical Review 113 ( 1998 ), 882 – 904 ( 899 – 903 ).


3. Roberto Weiss,Humanism in England During the Fifteenth Century, 3 rd edn.
   ( 1941 ; Oxford, 1967 ).
   4 .Memorials of King Henry the Seventh, ed. James Gairdner, Rerum Britannicarum
   Medii Aevi Scriptores (Rolls Series) 10 (London, 1858 ), 56. All translations of
   André, Gigli and Carmeliano are my own, though in the current passage I have
   benefited from Carlson’sat“Politicizing,” 287. On Carmeliano, Gigli and
   Vitelli, see most recently theDNBentries by J. B. Trapp.


4. Stephen Hawes,The Comfort of Louers,inThe Minor Poems, ed. Florence
   W. Gluck and Alice B. Morgan, EETS OS 271 (Oxford, 1974 ), 19 – 21. All further
   references to Hawes’s poems other thanThe Pastime of Pleasureare to this edition.


5. Green,Poets and Princepleasers, 209. Meyer-Lee reads André’s laureate presence
   as decisive for the practice of other poets:Poets and Power, 174 – 76.

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