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 ...

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 ...

In the London Review of Books, Irina Dumitrescu writes about reading and language learning in Renaissance England in a review of two books on the subject. The early modern classroom was no safe space.

Lords, ladies, knights and knaves, break out your corsets and breeches to welcome 16th-century England back to Warren County. The 33rd Ohio Renaissance Festival returns to Renaissance Park in ...