Between Church and Crown: Master Richard Andrew, King's Clerk
| Autor: | Simon W. Walker |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Cultural Studies
Administrative services organization History Fifteenth Literature and Literary Theory Visual Arts and Performing Arts media_common.quotation_subject Religious studies Elegiac Philosophy Kingdom Chapel Public service Praise Theology Welfare computer Classics media_common computer.programming_language |
| Zdroj: | Speculum. 74:956-991 |
| ISSN: | 2040-8072 0038-7134 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/2886970 |
| Popis: | Richard Andrew was a prominent member of the small but distinguished group of churchmen, educated at the twin foundations of Winchester and New College, whose collective contribution did much to shape Lancastrian policy toward the government of both church and kingdom in the middle years of the fifteenth century. Most of this group are conveniently depicted, imagined as an idealized community of scholars, in the frontispiece to the Collocutiones compiled by Thomas Chaundler, warden of New College, between circa 1461 and 1464. Chaundler's accompanying text extolled a strenuous version of the mixed life, combining learning, religion, and public service, that the careers of these men preeminently embodied.1 Yet there was an unavoidably elegiac quality to Chaundler's celebration, for the most prominent subjects of his encomium-William Waynflete, chancellor (1456-60); Thomas Bekynton, king's secretary (1433-43) and keeper of the privy seal (1443-44); Andrew Holes, keeper of the privy seal (1450-52), as well as Richard Andrew himself (king's secretary, 1443-54)-had all risen in the service of Henry VI, now deposed and in exile.2 Only William Say, dean of the chapel royal since 1448, retained the influence and authority that royal service conferred.3 Say's contribution to the collective welfare of the Wykehamist endeavor, as a "flowering shoot" that had grown into a "mighty cedar," was consequently accorded a special prominence, while the administrative services of Andrew and Holes, both firmly associated with the discredited Lancastrian regime, were left studiously unspecific: "my pen would extol them longer," Chaundler concludes, "were it not that the kingdom of England already resounds with praise for their works." Such uncertainties were a new and unsettling experience for those, like Richard Andrew, who had learned to live with profit between church and state. The prob |
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