Abstract
Edmund Bolton's commentary on Tacitus's Annals, books 1–6, in his Averrunci or The Skowrers (1634) represents the first scholarly challenge to Tacitus's authority as historian of the Roman Empire and the earliest revisionist portrait of the emperor Tiberius. While expanding on a number of themes in the introduction to the 2017 edition of Bolton's manuscript, this essay focuses on his reappraisal of Tiberius's reign and on the dual perspectives Bolton brings to his work, as a devoted (Catholic) monarchist examining a crucial stage in the consolidation of the principate, and as a historian of Rome reflecting upon "the most ponderous worldlie controversie" of his own day.
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