Averrunci or The Skowrers by Edmund Bolton
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- Contents

Plates
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
I. The Manuscript: 2 “the no great volumn”
II. Author and Patrons: 8 “May it please your Lordships and Honors”
III. The Annals in early Stuart England: 23 “as it were theyr Canonical scripture”
IV. Re-reading books 1–6: 32 “refine Tiberius from Tacitus”
V. Histories: 46 “Scholes for Captaines, and sages . . . to govern the world”
VI. Reforming Tacitus: 58 “to bring him into order for the common good”
Editorial Procedures
Epistle Dedicatory
(London, British Library, Add MS 64908, ff. 162r–163r)
The Text
(Genoa, Biblioteca Durazzo, MS A IV 5)
Commentary
Bibliography
Index of Names and Summary of the Text 261
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