Excitement about royal Tudor England is everywhere in anticipation of the televised adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Booker prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies beginning this week on the BBC . Here in the Wren Library we have a number of manuscripts which belonged to King Henry VIII. His libraries, housed in several …
Month: January 2015
Labours of the Month: January
Happy New Year! This year we will be featuring the Labours of the Months from a few of our medieval Books of Hours at the beginning of each month. Books of Hours were popular devotional texts in the middle ages. That is, they were produced for the laity rather than monastics or clergy and as …
