- André is so described in Bibliothèque Nationale MS Arsenal 418 , fol. v: cited in
William Nelson,John Skelton, Laureate(New York, 1939 ), 25 note 46. On the
post’s possible Burgundian origins, see Gordon Kipling,“Henry VII and the
Origins of Tudor Patronage,”Patronage in the Renaissance, ed. Guy Fitch Lytle
and Stephen Orgel (Princeton, 1981 ), 117 – 64 ( 131 ).
8 .On“the derogatory attitude toward the vernacular characteristic of this
period,”see Richard Foster Jones,The Triumph of the English Language
(Stanford, 1953 ), 3 – 31 ( 10 ). For an admirably full account of the complexities
surrounding the vernacular and various Latinities, see the essays and material in
Wogan–Browneet al.,Idea of the Vernacular. - See A. F. Pollard,The Reign of Henry VII from Contemporary Sources, 3 vols.
( 1913 – 14 ; rpt. New York, 1967 ),ii, 233 – 34 ; Henry R. Plomer,“Bibliographical
Notes from the Privy Purse Expenses of King Henry the Seventh,”The Library
3 rd series 4 ( 1913 ), 291 – 305. - David R. Carlson,“The Writings of Bernard André (c. 1450 – c. 1522 ),”
Renaissance Studies 12 ( 1998 ), 229 – 50. - For Bourdieu, the symbolic forms–including language–which receive the
greatest value and profit are those most unequally distributed, in two senses: the
conditions of acquiring them and the capacity to reproduce them are restricted,
and the expressions themselves are relatively rare on the“markets”where they
appear:Language and Symbolic Power, 55 – 56. - David R. Carlson,“The‘Opicius’Poems (British Library, Cotton Vespasian B.iv)
and the Humanist Anti-Literature in Early Tudor England,” Renaissance
Quarterly 55 ( 2002 ), 869 – 903 ( 880 ). - David R. Carlson, “King Arthur and Court Poems for the Birth of
Arthur Tudor in 1486 ,” Humanistica Lovaniensa 36 ( 1987 ), 147 – 83 ( 156 ,
158 – 59 , 166 ). References to Gigli’s Genethliacon and Carmeliano’s
Suasoria Laeticiaeare to the edited texts of the poems appended by Carlson
to this article. - Fradenburg,City, Marriage, Tournament, 74 – 83.
- Temporary obstacles to the marriage included not only the parties’relationship
in the fourth degree of kinship, and perhaps also affinity, but also–highly
problematically–the fact that Richard III’s parliament had declared Elizabeth
illegitimate: S. B. Chrimes,Henry VII, 2 nd edn., introduced by G.W. Bernard
( 1972 ; New Haven, 1999 ), 65 – 66. - A point I make cautiously, and in full cognizance of Naomi Schor’s powerful
depiction of the“catastrophic diminution”that is evaded by the metaphoriza-
tion of blindness and thefigure of the“blind person asseer”:“Blindness as
Metaphor,”differences 11 ( 1999 ), 76 – 105 ( 88 , 103 ). - On fantasy’s tendency to“create what it purports to conceal,”see SlavojŽižek,
The Plague of Fantasies(London, 1997 ), 7. - BL Cotton MS Domitian A.xviii, fols. 126 r– 228 r; described in Gairdner, pp.
xiii–vi. Gairdner thinks it likely, and I agree, that André“dictated his compo-
sitions to an amanuensis”(xiii). On the immediate political imperatives behind
theVita, see Daniel Hobbins,“The Poet Laureate as Stabilizer: Bernard André
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