{"id":52536,"date":"2025-08-27T11:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/?p=52536"},"modified":"2025-08-27T14:24:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:24:27","slug":"dr-micheline-white-lectures-at-the-national-library-of-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/2025\/dr-micheline-white-lectures-at-the-national-library-of-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Micheline White Lectures at the National Library of Australia"},"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-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2025\/08\/Event-image-Parr-768x625.jpg); background-position: 78% 29%;\">\n\n                    <div class=\"absolute top-0 w-full h-screen\" style=\"background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.600);\"><\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-white cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Dr. Micheline White Lectures at the National Library of Australia\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"cu-section cu-section--white w-screen ml-offset-center px-4 md:px-6 lg:px-12\"><div class=\"cu-max-w-child-5xl space-y-6 md:space-y-10   cu-prose-first-last\"><figure class=\"cu-figure not-prose  max-w-full\"><div class=\"not-prose overflow-hidden bg-white shadow-lg max-w-full rounded-none\"><div class=\"relative none overflow-hidden w-full pb-[56.25%] border border-cu-black-100\"><iframe title=\"Videos Embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aQtFDox9EVg\" class=\"cu-embed-iframe\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/white-micheline\/\">Dr. Micheline White<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/\">Department of English Language and Literature\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/\">College of the Humanities<\/a>) was invited to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.gov.au\/whats-on\/events\/gorgeous-books-and-royal-annotations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">give a public lecture<\/a> on Katherine Parr and Henry VIII.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What did Katherine Parr and Henry VIII write in their books? We stepped into the private libraries of one of history\u2019s most infamous royal couples and discovered how ink, margins, and manuscript flourishes reveal more than meets the eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this illuminating lecture, scholar Professor Micheline White dug into the marginalia left by King Henry VIII and his last wife, Katherine Parr, in their personal books. These deluxe volumes, often adorned with handwritten notes, decorative trefoils, and curious little pointing hands called manicules, told a compelling story of public image-making and personal survival in the Tudor court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Were these annotations simply personal reflections, or were they calculated messages written for a watchful audience of courtiers? Professor White guided us through a close reading of these royal markings to reveal how Henry and Katherine used their books not just for learning or devotion, but as tools of self-fashion in crafting images of piety, wisdom, and authority. For Katherine in particular, this wasn\u2019t merely academic: her very survival may have depended on how successfully she performed the role of the ideal Tudor queen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"834\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2025\/08\/Event-image-Parr-1024x834.jpg\" alt=\"Katherine Parr\u2019s handwriting and signature in a copy of A Sermon of Saint Chrysostom (1542). \" class=\"wp-image-52542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2025\/08\/Event-image-Parr-1024x834.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2025\/08\/Event-image-Parr-512x417.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2025\/08\/Event-image-Parr-320x261.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2025\/08\/Event-image-Parr-768x625.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2025\/08\/Event-image-Parr.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Katherine Parr\u2019s handwriting and signature in a copy of&nbsp;<em>A Sermon of Saint Chrysostom<\/em>&nbsp;(1542). Image by permission of Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2025\/08\/IMG_2405-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Micheline lecturing\" class=\"wp-image-52541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2025\/08\/IMG_2405-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2025\/08\/IMG_2405-512x384.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2025\/08\/IMG_2405-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2025\/08\/IMG_2405-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2025\/08\/IMG_2405-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2025\/08\/IMG_2405-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Micheline White\u00a0(Department of English Language and Literature\u00a0and\u00a0College of the Humanities) was invited to give a public lecture on Katherine Parr and Henry VIII. What did Katherine Parr and Henry VIII write in their books? We stepped into the private libraries of one of history\u2019s most infamous royal couples and discovered how ink, margins, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":52537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fass-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52536"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52547,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52536\/revisions\/52547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}