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It was a book well handled, but in whose hands? That was the mystery for William H. Sherman, a professor of English, early in his research on readers’ marginalia in Renaissance England. Who was the ...

It was a consequential 118 years. Emerging after England’s War of the Roses, the Tudor dynasty — lasting from 1485 to 1603 — saw only three generations rule the country. And yet it was a time of major ...