The Scoop

Friday, April 2, 2004
4pm
Hillyer Room
E.S. Bird Library

J.P. Carley, Distinguished Research Professor at York University in Toronto, will lecture on April 2, 2004, at 4 p.m. in the Hillyer Room on the sixth floor of E.S. Bird Library on the Syracuse University campus. His lecture is titled "The Libraries of King Henry VIII: The Ones that Got Away."

Celebrated for his magnificence, daring in his defiance of papal authority, and restless in his choice of wives, Henry VIII was also one of the most intelligent and widely read monarchs of the Renaissance. In the wake of the destruction of the monasteries, he acquired a vast quantity of books, and with them filled the shelves of his palace libraries. His is one of the foundation collections of the British Library-though, over the centuries, many interesting items escaped to the New World.

J.P. Carley specializes in the late medieval and early modern period. His previous work has included editions of texts from Glastonbury Abbey and a general history of the Abbey. He has co-edited a collection of essays on the Tudor translator Henry Parker, Lord Morley; and he is one of the editors in the Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues series published by the British Library; The Books of King Henry VIII and His Wives is a companion piece to his volume on The Libraries of King Henry VIII in this series.

This event is part of The History of the Book Seminar Series at Syracuse University, sponsored by the University Library; the Dean's Office, College of Arts and Sciences; the Departments of Anthropology English, History, Philosophy, and Religion, and of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics; and the School of Information Studies.

This event is free and open to the public.