David R Carlson
Biographic Data
| ID | 661462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David R Carlson |
| GIVEN NAMES | David R |
| FAMILY NAME | Carlson |
| SIGNATURE | CARLSON D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0067-2400 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Statius’ Silvae and Paracorporal Roman Elegy in Early Tudor England
The resident poets attached to court of the Tudor kings Henry VII (r. 1485–1509) and his son Henry VIII (r. 1509–44)—predominantly trained in Italy, with the exception of the English Laureate John Skelton (ca. 1460–1529)—manifest a considerable attachment to the Silvae of P. Papinius Statius (d. ca. 96), as evidenced by their quotations, reworkings, and imitations of matter from the corpus of Statius’ ex tempore verse. The same early Tudor poets …
Early Tudor Politics in Verse
The humanism of the poet-diplomat Giovanni Gigli (1434–98) was a matter of putting his knowledge of antiquity to use in contemporary affairs, literary and otherwise, as exemplified by the classical-style epithalamium that he wrote and published in England to celebrate the 1486 marriage of the English king Henry VII (d. 1509) and Elizabeth of York (d. 1503), meant to settle England’s divisive “Wars of the Roses” (1455–87). Gigli was personally inv…
Thomas Elyot, Papyrius Geminus Eleates, and Hermathena, seu de Eloquentiae victoria (1522)
“Papyrius Geminus Eleates,” ostensive author of an imaginative, reconditely humanist-stylish anti-scholastic polemic, Hermathena, seu de Eloquentiae victoria, narrating the allegorical triumph of E
The 1405 Richard Scrope Execution Verses (Long Version)
The article presents a previously unpublished long version of an Anglo-Latin poem on Henry IV’s executions of Archbishop Richard Scrope and others at York in 1405. It is argued that the poem was not part of the well-known hagiography of Scrope that grew quickly up for funding rebuilding programmes at York Minster, also exemplified in the paper; rather, it is a poetic contribution to the contemporary secular historiography of the York Rebellion ag…
The Materiality of Anti-Japanese Racism
Procopius’s Old English
By the middle of the sixth century, in Byzantine perspective, Britain had so long since ceased to be part of the empire of the Romans as to have become a kind of never-land, some part of the known world, but also the sort of place of which it was possible to credit the fabulous. Information was scarce. Nevertheless, the chief source for the sixth-century east-Roman regime in Constantinople, Procopius (c. 500 -565 CE), met a group of Anglo-Saxons …
Erasmus and the War-Poets in 1513
During Erasmus’ English residence 1509–1514, Henry viii invaded France, as part of the “Holy League,” and, in the English king’s absence, England was attacked by Scotland. The events engendered a great quantity of poetry, as well as other writing: analyzed herein particularly are the verse contributions of Erasmus himself, his amicus Andrea Ammonio, Pietro Carmeliano, Camillo Paleotti, and Bernard André (the poems of these last two being edited a…
John Gower in England and Iberia
Letters of Richard II (1397-8) in the authorship of William Ferriby
Journal Article Letters of Richard II (1397–8) in the authorship of William Ferriby Get access David R. Carlson David R. Carlson University of Ottawa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 87, Issue 237, August 2014, Pages 574–580, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12048 Published: 15 July 2014
Visibility and Power
This article evaluates the extent to which the architectural organization of a Dutch plantation compound was designed to aid in plantation administrators’ and owners’ ability to engage in acts of social control via surveillance. The particular compound, Groot Walling, is located on Banda Besar, the largest of the Banda Islands, Maluku Province, Indonesia. Our initial hypothesis is that the compound was designed to aid in surveillance activity by …
John Gower, Poetry and Propaganda in Fourteenth-Century England
John Gower's works examined as part of a tradition of "official" writings on behalf of the Crown. John Gower has been criticised for composing verse propaganda for the English state, in support of the regime of Henry IV, at the end of his distinguished career. However, as the author of this book shows, using evidence from Gower's English, French and Latin poems alongside contemporary state papers, pamphlet-literature, and other historical prose, …
English Humanist Books
Both these books share what has become in recent years a prevailing desire to humanize the humanists, as it were: to remind us that humanists did not live by Ciceronian sententiae alone, but required bread and were obliged to develop elaborate strategies of salesmanship in order to secure it.While this unromantic vision of the humanists has always existed -it was first expressed by contemporaries who felt their own social and political franchise …
Erasmus, Revision, and the British Library Manuscript Egerton 1651
Tennessee Williams, of paying Williams a visit, only to catch him at a kind of behaviour that
Gower pia vota bibit and Henry IV in 1399 November
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid R. CarlsonDavid R. Carlson is a member of the Department of English, University of Ottawa, Canada
The Italian Johannes Opicius on Henry VII of England's 1492 invasion of France
The paper explicates the literary and historical contexts of Latin verse writings of a young Italian, Johannes Opicius (fl. 1492–1515), on the 1492 invasion of France by the Tudor sovereign Henry VII (r. 1485–1509). Opicius had access to veracious information about the overseas campaign of the English king and army, as is confirmed by other surviving documentary and narrative sources. On the other hand, after the fashion of the Tudor laureate Ber…
Greeks in England, 1400
The 'Opicius' Poems (British Library, Cotton Vespasian B.iv) and the Humanist Anti-Literature in Early Tudor England
Following the format of a catalogue manuscript description, this study analyses the design and contents of a manuscript presented to king Henry VII of England about 1492-93. Featuring an epic account of the 1492 English invasion of France and a pastoral dialogue praising the domestic peace imposed by the Tudor regime, the five poems are the work of a little-known Italian writer “Johannes Opicius, “ in a stylishly written and decorated copy. Like …
The Writings of Bernard Andre (c. 1450-c. 1522)
The writings of Bernard Andréa (c. 1450–c. 1522)
Royal Tutors in the Reign of Henry VII
Reputation and Duplicity
Thomas More practiced deceit, it seems. In other instances, by no means occult ones, hidden from biography, More was simply duplicitous: that is to say, on differing occasions he made differing, even contradictory remarks about other people. On one occasion, however, the outline of which has likewise been known for some years, More was duplicitous deceptively: he occluded his intentions, in calculatedly misleading way, so that he appeared to be s…
Historicism and the in medium sordes of Hurd's Letters on Chivalry and Romance
The Materiality of Anti-Japanese Racism
Gower pia vota bibit and Henry IV in 1399 November
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid R. CarlsonDavid R. Carlson is a member of the Department of English, University of Ottawa, Canada
Royal Tutors in the Reign of Henry VII
Reputation and Duplicity
Thomas More practiced deceit, it seems. In other instances, by no means occult ones, hidden from biography, More was simply duplicitous: that is to say, on differing occasions he made differing, even contradictory remarks about other people. On one occasion, however, the outline of which has likewise been known for some years, More was duplicitous deceptively: he occluded his intentions, in calculatedly misleading way, so that he appeared to be s…
Historicism and the in medium sordes of Hurd's Letters on Chivalry and Romance
The Writings of Bernard Andre (c. 1450-c. 1522)
The writings of Bernard Andréa (c. 1450–c. 1522)
The 'Opicius' Poems (British Library, Cotton Vespasian B.iv) and the Humanist Anti-Literature in Early Tudor England
Following the format of a catalogue manuscript description, this study analyses the design and contents of a manuscript presented to king Henry VII of England about 1492-93. Featuring an epic account of the 1492 English invasion of France and a pastoral dialogue praising the domestic peace imposed by the Tudor regime, the five poems are the work of a little-known Italian writer “Johannes Opicius, “ in a stylishly written and decorated copy. Like …
Greeks in England, 1400
The Italian Johannes Opicius on Henry VII of England's 1492 invasion of France
The paper explicates the literary and historical contexts of Latin verse writings of a young Italian, Johannes Opicius (fl. 1492–1515), on the 1492 invasion of France by the Tudor sovereign Henry VII (r. 1485–1509). Opicius had access to veracious information about the overseas campaign of the English king and army, as is confirmed by other surviving documentary and narrative sources. On the other hand, after the fashion of the Tudor laureate Ber…
Gower pia vota bibit and Henry IV in 1399 November
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid R. CarlsonDavid R. Carlson is a member of the Department of English, University of Ottawa, Canada
English Humanist Books
Both these books share what has become in recent years a prevailing desire to humanize the humanists, as it were: to remind us that humanists did not live by Ciceronian sententiae alone, but required bread and were obliged to develop elaborate strategies of salesmanship in order to secure it.While this unromantic vision of the humanists has always existed -it was first expressed by contemporaries who felt their own social and political franchise …
Erasmus, Revision, and the British Library Manuscript Egerton 1651
Tennessee Williams, of paying Williams a visit, only to catch him at a kind of behaviour that
John Gower, Poetry and Propaganda in Fourteenth-Century England
John Gower's works examined as part of a tradition of "official" writings on behalf of the Crown. John Gower has been criticised for composing verse propaganda for the English state, in support of the regime of Henry IV, at the end of his distinguished career. However, as the author of this book shows, using evidence from Gower's English, French and Latin poems alongside contemporary state papers, pamphlet-literature, and other historical prose, …
Visibility and Power
This article evaluates the extent to which the architectural organization of a Dutch plantation compound was designed to aid in plantation administrators’ and owners’ ability to engage in acts of social control via surveillance. The particular compound, Groot Walling, is located on Banda Besar, the largest of the Banda Islands, Maluku Province, Indonesia. Our initial hypothesis is that the compound was designed to aid in surveillance activity by …
Erasmus and the War-Poets in 1513
During Erasmus’ English residence 1509–1514, Henry viii invaded France, as part of the “Holy League,” and, in the English king’s absence, England was attacked by Scotland. The events engendered a great quantity of poetry, as well as other writing: analyzed herein particularly are the verse contributions of Erasmus himself, his amicus Andrea Ammonio, Pietro Carmeliano, Camillo Paleotti, and Bernard André (the poems of these last two being edited a…
John Gower in England and Iberia
Letters of Richard II (1397-8) in the authorship of William Ferriby
Journal Article Letters of Richard II (1397–8) in the authorship of William Ferriby Get access David R. Carlson David R. Carlson University of Ottawa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 87, Issue 237, August 2014, Pages 574–580, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12048 Published: 15 July 2014
Procopius’s Old English
By the middle of the sixth century, in Byzantine perspective, Britain had so long since ceased to be part of the empire of the Romans as to have become a kind of never-land, some part of the known world, but also the sort of place of which it was possible to credit the fabulous. Information was scarce. Nevertheless, the chief source for the sixth-century east-Roman regime in Constantinople, Procopius (c. 500 -565 CE), met a group of Anglo-Saxons …
The Materiality of Anti-Japanese Racism
The 1405 Richard Scrope Execution Verses (Long Version)
The article presents a previously unpublished long version of an Anglo-Latin poem on Henry IV’s executions of Archbishop Richard Scrope and others at York in 1405. It is argued that the poem was not part of the well-known hagiography of Scrope that grew quickly up for funding rebuilding programmes at York Minster, also exemplified in the paper; rather, it is a poetic contribution to the contemporary secular historiography of the York Rebellion ag…
Thomas Elyot, Papyrius Geminus Eleates, and Hermathena, seu de Eloquentiae victoria (1522)
“Papyrius Geminus Eleates,” ostensive author of an imaginative, reconditely humanist-stylish anti-scholastic polemic, Hermathena, seu de Eloquentiae victoria, narrating the allegorical triumph of E
Statius’ Silvae and Paracorporal Roman Elegy in Early Tudor England
The resident poets attached to court of the Tudor kings Henry VII (r. 1485–1509) and his son Henry VIII (r. 1509–44)—predominantly trained in Italy, with the exception of the English Laureate John Skelton (ca. 1460–1529)—manifest a considerable attachment to the Silvae of P. Papinius Statius (d. ca. 96), as evidenced by their quotations, reworkings, and imitations of matter from the corpus of Statius’ ex tempore verse. The same early Tudor poets …
Early Tudor Politics in Verse
The humanism of the poet-diplomat Giovanni Gigli (1434–98) was a matter of putting his knowledge of antiquity to use in contemporary affairs, literary and otherwise, as exemplified by the classical-style epithalamium that he wrote and published in England to celebrate the 1486 marriage of the English king Henry VII (d. 1509) and Elizabeth of York (d. 1503), meant to settle England’s divisive “Wars of the Roses” (1455–87). Gigli was personally inv…
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