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 ...

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"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 ...

A jeweled and embroidered “gabled hood’' frames Seymour’s face tightly. Adding to the mood of luxury and piety in the painting are a jeweled necklace and pendant pinned to Seymour’s bodice that spells ...

Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire vendors — doing business in an Elizabethan England speckled by the mythical lore of creatures like mermaids — see “the real world” as everything beyond the walls of ...

CARVER - The longest running Renaissance festival in New England, King Richard's Faire opened for its 42nd season on September 2. The faire has fun for kids of all ages on their 80-acre wooded site, ...

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 ...

Imaginary conquests: European material technologies and the colonial mirror stage / Steven Mullaney -- Mapping the global body / Valerie Traub -- Second-world prosthetics: supplying deficiencies of ...

LONDON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The likes of Owen Farrell, Chris Ashton and Manu Tuilagi are the headline grabbers but just as vital to England's renaissance under Stuart Lancaster has been the form of ...

LONDON (Reuters) - England's transformation in just over two years from a side going nowhere to one counted among the World Cup favourites is largely down to Fabio Capello. The 63-year-old Italian art ...