Officeholding Quotes

“If these were absentee office-holders, should consideration of their influence be discarded in favour of considering that of their designated deputies? On the contrary, in the world of government and politics where – as a Wildean epigram might espouse ‘appearance is everything’ – perception, image, and symbolism were important considerations: even honorific appointments held meaning and provided their recipients with some status.


R. E. Stansfield-Cudworth, ‘The Duchy of Cornwall and the Wars of the Roses: Patronage, Politics, and Power, 1453–1502’ (2013), p. 123.”
― Robert E. Stansfield-Cudworth