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Thus the depoliticisation of historiography by some academics in the 1960s and 1970s is clearly inappropriate, but so too is any simplistic equation of history with opposition (Hill, 1965, p. 178, or Notestein, 1971, pp. 390ff). History was a discourse open to all sides, being contested by all sides, neither the language solely of the 'opposition' or the 'state'. 22 King James himself was not opposed to history writing in itself as has been often suggested: certain kinds of history were suppressed, but others were active% encouraged and rewarded by the King and his ministers.

17 34 Sir Walter Ralegh and his Readers The publication act most closely linked to Ralegh was, however, the translation of the republican Lucan'f Pharsalia by Arthur Gorges. Ralegh wrote a dedicatory poem for the work, identifying Gorges with Lucan, the former praised for his freedom from flattery, his suffering and his military achievements. The poem ends with a Stoic encouragement to Gorges to die for the cause of truth and his good name. In his turn, Gorges had drawn attention to Ralegh's aggressive foreign policy in his notes to the translation.

3 Edmund Bolton writes that the King suggested Nero as a subject for a history: the subsequent Nero Caesar (published 1627) was dedicated first to James and then to Buckingham. It may seem hard to understand why James would encourage the writing of a history about a bisexual tyrant, but Bolton turns the story to the state's purposes. A3v). In the case of Ralegh, it has been argued (Patterson, 1984, p. 129) that the writing of a history was in itself an antagonistic act, but it was not the choice of genre that was problematic, but what was done with that genre.

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