{"id":300,"date":"2009-06-30T09:07:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T13:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?page_id=300"},"modified":"2025-09-18T15:24:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:24:02","slug":"white-micheline","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/white-micheline\/","title":{"rendered":"Micheline White"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Micheline White is a Professor in the College of the Humanities and the Department of English. She began teaching at Carleton as an Assistant Professor in 1998. She completed a B.A. (honours) in English Literature at the University of Toronto in 1989 and then moved to Aomori, Japan, where she taught English at a Japanese High-school for a year. She received an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Ottawa in 1992 and a Ph.D. in English Literature from Loyola University Chicago in May 1998. Her main field of study is English Renaissance literature, and she is particularly interested in women\u2019s writing and Reformation history. She has published several recent articles on Katherine Parr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"research-interests\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Katherine Parr<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sixteenth and seventeenth-century religious writing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Women\u2019s writing and literary networks<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reformation studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Digital Humanities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"2024-2025-courses\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">2024-2025 Courses<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>HUMS 3000A: Culture and Imagination (F\/W)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HUMS 4902B\/ENGL 4301A\/ENGL 5303W: Tudor Queens (W)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"most-recent-publication\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Most Recent Publication<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/services\/aop-cambridge-core\/content\/view\/8402F8B9E7F8369B47F8C8F7A965BF16\/S0034433822004456a.pdf\/katherine-parrs-giftbooks-henry-viiis-marginalia-and-the-display-of-royal-power-and-piety.pdf\">\u201cKatherine Parr\u2019s Giftbooks, Henry VIII\u2019s Marginalia, and the Display of Royal Power and Piety,\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;<em>Renaissance Quarterly<\/em>&nbsp;76 (2023): 39-83.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This essay examines deluxe copies of Katherine Parr\u2019s \u201cPsalms or Prayers\u201d (1544) distributed by Parr and Henry VIII as gifts as part of Henry\u2019s wartime campaign against Scotland and France. The book promoted prayers for the king and his army, and Parr used hand illumination to amplify its aesthetic character and to elicit political loyalty. I also discuss previously unknown annotations made in a copy in the Wormsley library. I argue that they were made by Henry VIII and that they shed new light on Parr and Henry\u2019s unique political partnership and on Henry\u2019s responses to the health issues and political challenges that dominated the final years of his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about this article, please see:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/style\/article\/henry-viii-doodles-scli-intl-gbr\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/gift\/bb11122382b52c40ed0114ed34fd077d8807d608815526014567037fa82bd3c3\/Z7XM5H7ETRAHPNGH22QISHGQGQ\/\">The Globe and Mail<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/the-times-view-on-henry-viii-forsake-me-not-0qscsg2fl\">The Times<\/a>&nbsp;(London),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/story\/notes-from-the-margins\/\">Notes From the Margins<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/shows.acast.com\/not-just-the-tudors\/episodes\/how-kateryn-parr-championed-the-reformation\">How Kateryn Parr Championed the Reformation<\/a>\u201d (Not Just the Tudors podcast);&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/talkingtudors.podbean.com\/e\/episode-210-katherine-parr-s-giftbooks-henry-viii-s-marginalia-with-professor-micheline-white\/\">Katherine Parr\u2019s Giftbooks &amp; Henry\u2019s Marginalia<\/a>&nbsp;(Talking Tudors podcast);&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/listen\/live-radio\/1-100-ottawa-morning\">CBC Radio<\/a>&nbsp;(8 mins);&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/video?playlistId=1.6537386\">CTV News<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9899826\/king-henry-viii-doodles\/\">Global News TV<\/a>.<br>\nThis article was highlighted by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ctvnews.ca%2Fsci-tech%2Fthe-15-best-art-design-and-archeology-discoveries-of-2023-1.6687662&amp;data=05%7C02%7CAndreaMcIntyre%40Cunet.Carleton.Ca%7C958c0b37e80c46852c2f08dc1ea50d50%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638418941430112936%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=NJwpUc9VPGSf3h4iPylrFkzDCbB7Mc763ZyyWJmgvto%3D&amp;reserved=0\">CTV News as one of the \u201c15 Best Art, Design, and Archaeology Discoveries\u201d of 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"grants-and-awards-since-2011\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Grants and Awards Since 2011<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>SSHRC Insight Development Grant: \u201cElite Tudor Women\u2019s Prayer Books as Material, Devotional, and Socio-Political Artefacts.\u201d Tenure: June 2019-June 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carleton Research Development Grant, July 2015-July 2016. Title: \u201cThe Political Activism of Queen Katherine Parr \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FASS Teaching Award, 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FASS Research Award, 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SSHRCC Standard Research Grant: &nbsp;2011-2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"edited-books\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Edited Books<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Leah Knight, Micheline White, and Elizabeth Sauer, eds.<em><a href=\"https:\/\/press.umich.edu\/Books\/W\/Women-s-Bookscapes-in-Early-Modern-Britain\">Women\u2019s Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain: Reading, Ownership, Circulation<\/a><\/em>. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Micheline White, ed.&nbsp;<em>English Women, Religion, and Textual Production,<\/em>&nbsp;1500-1625.&nbsp;Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Micheline White, ed.&nbsp;<em>Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England: Anne Lock, Isabella Whitney, and Aemilia Lanyer.<\/em>&nbsp;Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"selected-recent-publications\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Selected Recent Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cKatherine Parr: Wartime Consort and Author,\u201d in&nbsp;<em>English Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty<\/em>, ed. Aidan Norrie. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp.139-59.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cKatherine Parr (1512\u20131548), Protestant Queen, Author, and Influencer\u201d in&nbsp;<em>Women Reformers: Protestant Voices in Early Modern Europe<\/em>, ed. Kirsi I. Stjerna. Fortress Press, 2022, pp. 141-50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cKatherine Parr and Royal Religious Complaint: Complaining For and About Henry VIII,\u201d in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-030-42946-1\"><em>Early Modern Women\u2019s Complaint: Gender, Form, and Politics<\/em><\/a><em>,&nbsp;<\/em>eds. Sarah C.E. Ross and Rosalind Smith. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 47\u201365.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cKatherine Parr, Translation, and the Dissemination of Erasmus\u2019s Views on War and Peace,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Renaissance and Reformation \/ Renaissance et Reforme&nbsp;<\/em>43.2 (2020): 67\u00ad-91.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cKatherine Parr\u2019s Marginalia: Putting the Wisdom of Chrysostom and Solomon into Practice,\u201d in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/press.umich.edu\/Books\/W\/Women-s-Bookscapes-in-Early-Modern-Britain\"><em>Women\u2019s Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain: Reading, Ownership, Circulation<\/em><\/a>. Eds.Leah Knight, Micheline White, and Elizabeth Sauer. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018, pp. 21-42.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWomen in Worship: Continuity and Change in the Prayers of Elizabeth Tyrwhit and Frances Aburgavenny\u201d in&nbsp;<em>A History of Early Modern Women\u2019s Writing<\/em>, ed. Patricia Phillippy. Cambridge:&nbsp; Cambridge University Press, 2018, 170-185.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cKatherine Parr, Henry VIII, and Royal Literary Collaboration,\u201d in&nbsp;<em>Gender, Authorship and Early Modern Women\u2019s Collaboration<\/em>, ed. Patricia Pender.&nbsp; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 23-46.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Psalms, War, and Royal Iconography: Katherine Parr\u2019s Psalms or Prayers (1544) and Henry VIII as David.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Renaissance Studies<\/em>&nbsp;29.4 (Sept 2015): 554-575.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPray for the Monarch: The surprising contributions of Katherine Parr and Queen Elizabeth I to the Book of Common Prayer.\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/tls\/\"><em>Times Literary Supplement<\/em><\/a>, 3 April, 2015: 14-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This piece sheds new light on the historical origins of the \u201cPrayer for the Queen\u2019s Majesty,\u201d a prayer that appeared in the 1559 Anglican Book of Common Prayer and that is still used today. It demonstrates that the prayer is derived from a Latin prayer by Georg Witzel for the Holy Roman Emperor printed in 1541. It was adapted as a prayer for Henry VIII, translated by Katherine Parr, and disseminated in her 1544&nbsp;<em>Psalms or Prayers<\/em>, a book of wartime prayers. Parr made fascinating modifications as she translated, enhancing Henry\u2019s virtues and military prowess. Although 19th and early 20th-century historians noted the connection between the 1559 \u201cPrayer for the Queen\u2019s Majesty\u201d and the earlier \u201cPrayer for the King,\u201d they were unsure of the origins of the prayer and did not openly attribute it to Parr or examine Parr\u2019s literary skills. Parr is not mentioned at all in more recent accounts of the Book of Common Prayer. This piece also argues that the prayer was almost certainly inserted into public worship and edited in 1559 by Elizabeth I, Parr\u2019s beloved step-daughter. The prayer appeared in Elizabeth\u2019s Chapel Royal five months before the printing of the 1559 BCP and she had translated the prayer in her youth as a gift for her father. Elizabeth made the prayer more suited to her sex, toning down the passages about military glory and ferocity. This means that Elizabeth was likely an editor of a female-authored part of the BCP, a detail that complicates the general assumption that the prayers in the Tudor Books of Common Prayer were compiled, written, translated or edited by clergymen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"2015-media-interviews-about-katherine-parr-elizabeth-and-the-book-of-common-prayer\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">2015 Media Interviews About Katherine Parr, Elizabeth, and the Book of Common Prayer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Micheline White speaks to Mary Hynes on CBC\u2019s Tapestry about her Research on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/tapestry\/a-prayer-a-sin-an-arranged-marriage-1.3297125\/how-two-queens-revolutionized-the-book-of-common-prayer-1.3297188\">\u201cHow Two Queens Revolutionized the Book of Common Prayer.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicannews.org\/news\/2015\/11\/wife-of-henry-viii-wrote-bcp-prayer.aspx\">Micheline White speaks to the Anglican Communion News Service<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"recent-graduate-supervisions\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recent Graduate Supervisions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Meghan Newman, \u201cA Catholic Woman and A Catholic Queen: The nuanced religious expression of Mary I in Reformation Era England.\u201d MA Thesis. Co-supervision. Department of History. Defended September, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bethany Pehora, \u201cRhetoric in the Early Imprisonment Letters of Mary Queen of Scots.\u201d&nbsp; MA Thesis. Co-supervision. Department of History. Defended September, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amy-Lee Parent: \u201cThe Rest is Drag\u201d: A Look at Cross-Dressing and Gender-Play in As You Like It and Twelfth Night. MRP, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jordan Plescia \u201cDevotion and Didacticism: Elizabeth I\u2019s Private Prayers.\u201d MRP, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23258,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Micheline","cu_people_last_name":"White","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[22],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-300","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-professors"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Professor","cu_people_degree":"B.A. (Toronto); M.A. (Ottawa); Ph.D. (Loyola University, Chicago)","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"micheline.white@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27287,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/300\/revisions\/27287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}