Abstract
This article presents the evidence for attributing to the English historian and antiquarian Edmund Bolton (1575–c.1634) an anonymous, unpublished manuscript entitled AVERRVNCI or The Skowrers. Ponderous and new considerations vpon the first six books of the Annals of CORNELIVS TACITVS concerning TIBERIVS CAESAR (Genoa, Biblioteca Durazzo, Ms. A IV 5). As a summary of work in progress towards a critical edition of, and commentary on, the text, it also introduces the principal issues surrounding the study of the author and his subject: the place of the treatise in the context of his life and work; its connections to the anti-Tacitean movement in Stuart England; and its contributions to the development of source criticism and philological analysis in an age of political controversy. Bolton’s Skowrers provides not only a passionate defense of monarchy but also a carefully argued refutation of Tacitus’ account of Tiberius and the first scholarly and systematic attempt in early modern historiography to rehabilitate the emperor’s reputation.
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