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Katherine Parr

Katherine Parr

Complete Works and Correspondence

by Katherine Parr and Janel Mueller
Hardback
Publication Date: 30/06/2011

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To the extent that she is popularly known, Katherine Parr (1512-48) is the woman who survived King Henry VIII as his sixth and last wife. She merits far greater recognition, however, on several other fronts. Fluent in French, Italian, and Latin, Parr also began, out of necessity, to learn Spanish when she ascended to the throne in 1543. As Henry's wife and queen of England, she was a noted patron of the arts and music and took a personal interest in the education of her stepchildren, Princesses Mary and Elizabeth and Prince Edward. Above all, Parr commands interest for her literary labors: she was the first woman in England to publish under her own name in English. For this new edition of Parr's writing, Janel Mueller has assembled the four publications attributed to her - "Psalms or Prayers", "Prayers or Meditations", "The Lamentation of a Sinner", and a compilation of prayers and Biblical excerpts written in her hand - as well as her extensive correspondence, which is collected here for the first time. Mueller brings to this volume a wealth of knowledge of sixteenth-century English culture.
She marshals the impeccable skills of a textual scholar in rendering Parr's sixteenth-century English for modern readers and provides useful background on the circumstances of and references in Parr's letters and compositions. Given its scope and ambition, "Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence" will be an event for the English publishing world and will make an immediate contribution to the fields of sixteenth-century literature, Reformation studies, women's writing, and Tudor politics.
ISBN:
9780226647241
9780226647241
Category:
European history
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
30-06-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
The University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
684
Dimensions (mm):
254x178x41mm
Weight:
1.32kg

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