The Courtiers of Henry VII

One of Us? William Camden and the Making of HistoryThe Camden Society Centenary Lecture

“…It was also the autobiography of a statesman, particularly in the hostility the book expresses for courtiers of the kind who had destroyed Bacon's own career. 63 These were further refractions of the Roman historians, with whom it was virtually a convention to deplore the rise of upstarts. 64 This was not what we should call a history at all.…”

6 Repertoires of Access in Princely Courts, 1400-1750

“…4 See Starkey (1987), especially p. 8. 5 See, for example, Loades (1986) 85-95;Gunn (1993); Kettering (1993); Asch (1995);Weiser (2003); Jiménez (1996); Le Roux (2000); Hengerer (2004); Raeymaekers (2013). always dependent on the nature of princely authority.6 Jeroen Duindam, too, argues that access and political influence were not necessarily directly proportional, let alone mutually interchangeable.7 Although both authors are of the opinion that the acquisition of access was, without a doubt, one of the most efficient ways for acquiring power, Adamson as well as Duindam postulate that access is only one aspect in a broad array of factors that have to be taken into account in research on the matter.…”

Henry VII’s Book of Astrology and the Tudor Renaissance*

“… 97 Gunn, 1993, 44, notes that grooms and gentlemen ushers of the chamber received £1 or £2 a year, suggesting that Parron was at the bottom of the courtly hierarchy. …”