{"id":51109,"date":"2024-12-06T10:12:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T15:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/?p=51109"},"modified":"2025-01-27T15:40:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T20:40:47","slug":"katherine-parrs-giftbooks-henry-viiis-marginalia-and-the-display-of-royal-power-and-piety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/2024\/katherine-parrs-giftbooks-henry-viiis-marginalia-and-the-display-of-royal-power-and-piety\/","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Parr&#8217;s Giftbooks, Henry VIII&#8217;s Marginalia, and the Display of Royal Power and Piety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-7xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-7xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 60%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Katherine Parr&#8217;s Giftbooks, Henry VIII&#8217;s Marginalia, and the Display of Royal Power and Piety\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n                    <div class=\"cu-textmedia-bgimg flex-1 rounded-xl bg-no-repeat bg-cover \" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/12\/HenryF1vmanicule-trefoil-750-150-copy-562x400.jpeg); background-position: 50% 50%; transform: scale(1);\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Micheline White&#8217;s (College of Humanities) article, <em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/renaissance-quarterly\/article\/katherine-parrs-giftbooks-henry-viiis-marginalia-and-the-display-of-royal-power-and-piety\/8402F8B9E7F8369B47F8C8F7A965BF16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Katherine Parr&#8217;s Giftbooks, Henry VIII&#8217;s Marginalia, and the Display of Royal Power and Piety<\/a><\/em>, Renaissance Quarterly, 76 (2023), 39\u201383, was the winner of the Sixteenth Century Society\u2019s 2024 &#8220;Raymond B. Waddington Prize&#8221; for the best English-language article on the literature of the Early Modern period (1450-1750).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This essay examines deluxe copies of Katherine Parr&#8217;s \u201cPsalms or Prayers\u201d (1544) distributed as gifts as part of Henry VIII&#8217;s wartime campaign. The book promoted supplication for the king, and Parr used hand illumination to amplify its aesthetic and sacred character and to elicit political loyalty. I discuss two copies annotated by Henry, one previously unknown. I argue that the volumes shed new light on Parr&#8217;s role as queen\/author, on Henry&#8217;s final illness, and on their transactional relationship: Parr&#8217;s giftbooks advanced Henry&#8217;s cause and enabled him to display exemplary piety; Henry&#8217;s marginalia activated Parr&#8217;s text and thanked her for her labor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Micheline White&#8217;s (College of Humanities) article, Katherine Parr&#8217;s Giftbooks, Henry VIII&#8217;s Marginalia, and the Display of Royal Power and Piety, Renaissance Quarterly, 76 (2023), 39\u201383, was the winner of the Sixteenth Century Society\u2019s 2024 &#8220;Raymond B. Waddington Prize&#8221; for the best English-language article on the literature of the Early Modern period (1450-1750). 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