Thomas Dempster, Royal Historian to James I, and Classical Scholarship in Early Stuart England

The Scot Thomas Dempster (ca. 1574-1625) was an idiosyncratic classical scholar whose brief appointment as royal historian to James I has previously been overlooked. This article examines what Dempster wrote to explain why James chose to support him in 1615, and argues that by appointing Dempster, J...

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Main Author: Stenhouse, William (Author)
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Published: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc. 2004
In: The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2004, Volume: 35, Issue: 2, Pages: 395-410
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