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 ...

"Thanks to Hollywood movies and TV dramas like The Tudors, many Americans have heard of King Henry VIII and his six wives, as well as the "Virgin Queen" Elizabeth I, but few may be aware of 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 ...

The Tudor dynasty was short in duration, but it has become perennial in memory. Just over a century passed between 1485, when Henry Tudor became Henry VII, and 1603, when his granddaughter Elizabeth I ...

A visit to the Met for "The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England." Now on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England” offers a history of the ...

I: Of marks and methods -- Introduction: used books -- Toward a history of the manicule -- Reading the matriarchive -- II: Reading and religion -- "The book thus put in every vulgar hand": marking the ...