and theVita Regis Henrici Septimi,”Proceedings of the Medieval Association of the
Midwest 4 ( 1997 ), 61 – 79.
19. Carlson,English Humanist Books, 64.
20. On André’s Sallustian techniques, see C. W. T. Blackwell,“Humanism and
Politics in English Royal Biography: The Use of Cicero, Plutarch and Sallust in
theVita Henrici Quinti( 1438 ) by Titus Livius de Frulovisi and theVita Henrici
Septimi ( 1500 – 03 ) by Bernard André,” Acta Conventus Neo-Latini
Sanctandreani, ed. I. D. McFarlane, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and
Studies 38 (Binghamton, 1986 ), 431 – 40 ( 438 ).
21. Ned Lukacher,Primal Scenes: Literature, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis(Ithaca,
1986 ), 24. See Fradenburg,City, Marriage, Tournament, 9 ; Paul Strohm,
Theory and the Premodern Text(Minneapolis, 2000 ), 110.
22. Patricia Parker,“Virile Style,”Premodern Sexualities, ed. Louise Fradenburg
and Carla Freccero (New York, 1996 ), 201 – 22 ( 201 ).
23. Jacques Derrida, reading Freud, claims that the substitutive logic of dissem-
ination“entrains”castration in“the affirmation of...nonorigin, the remark-
able empty locus of a hundred blanks no meaning can be ascribed to”:
Dissemination, trans. Barbara Johnson (Chicago, 1981 ), 268 note 67 .We
might note here that the gaps in the MS of theVitaconnote other breaks in
lineal transmission. André was tutor to Prince Arthur, Henry’s heir, whose
death in 1502 may have dealt a political and personal blow to the poet’s hopes:
Daniel Hobbins,“Arsenal MS 360 as a Witness to the Career and Writings of
Bernard André,”Humanistica Lovaniensa 50 ( 2001 ), 161 – 98 ( 175 ).
24. At fol. 163 r. Gairdner, xv, suggests that André’s scribes“had little of the
author’s scholarship.”
25. Fradenburg,City, Marriage, Tournament:“sovereignty promises a fantastic, a
perfect but imaginary closure to the very yearning it brings into being: this is
‘sovereign love’”( 71 ). The narratives of sovereign love also inform Sarah
M. Dunnigan,Eros and Poetry at the Courts of Mary Queen of Scots and James
VI(Basingstoke, 2002 ).
26. Gabrielle Spiegel, Romancing the Past: The Rise of Vernacular Prose
Historiography in Thirteenth-Century France(Berkeley, 1993 ). The“opposi-
tional”Lucan’sinfluence is reviewed by Edward Paleit, “Lucan in the
Renaissance, Pre- 1625 : An Introduction,”Literature Compass 1 ( 2005 ).
27. Carlson,“‘Opicius’Poems,” 879 – 80.
28. Walter Benjamin,“Theses on the Philosophy of History,”Illuminations, ed.
and intro. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn (New York, 1992 ), 245 – 55 ( 253 ).
29. The Testament of the Papyngo, in Sir David Lyndsay,Selected Poems, ed. Janet
Hadley Williams (Glasgow, 2000 ), lines 476 – 78.
30. Norman Macdougall,James IV(Edinburgh, 1989 ), 250 ; that progress is most
memorably narrated in the“Fyancells of Margaret, eldest Daughter of King
Henry VIIth to James King of Scotland,”written by John Younge, Somerset
Herald, and printed in John Leland,De rebus Britannicis collectanea, 6 vols.
(London, 1770 ),iv, 258 – 300. On earlier events, see Nicholson,Scotland,
549 – 55. For a brilliant analysis of the symbolism of the marriage and
186 Notes to Pages 26 – 32