So I just wanted to introduce today's chat.

One thing, patrons of my podcast and this channel get monthly chats with experts in various fields.

And this month's or the July chat was with Michelin White, who is the researcher who found the, she's been in the news because she found the doodles of Henry

the 8th in the prayer book that Catherine Parr had given him and it made even, you know, like,

news on like non-tudor places, non-history places. It was on CNN, like all that. So I reached out to her

and she graciously did a chat with our patrons, the patrons of the show. So I reached out to her and she graciously did a chat with our patrons, the patrons of the show.

So I wanted to introduce Michelin White and then we're going to hop right into the chat.

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Micheline White is an associate professor in the College of Humanities

and the Department of English at Carleton College.

She began teaching at Carleton as an assistant professor in 1998.

She completed a BA with honors in English literature at the University

of Toronto in 1989. And then she moved to Japan where she taught English at a Japanese high school

for a year. She received her master's in English literature from the University of Ottawa in 1992

and a PhD in English literature from Loyola University, Chicago

in May of 1998. Her main field of study is English Renaissance literature. She is particularly

interested in women's writing and reformation history, and she's published several recent

articles on Catherine Parr. So we actually

talked mostly about Catherine Parr and then got a little bit into the doodles and marginalia

of Henry the 8th. All right. I was so thrilled to welcome Michelin Wipe, and we will just get

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