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...before becoming the fourth set of co-captains in Crimson history. The announcement was made at the men's hockey team's annual awards banquet Saturday at the Harvard Club of Boston. The 111th captain of Harvard hockey, senior blueliner Dylan Reese, was named the winner of the John Tudor Memorial Cup as the team’s most valuable player. The defensive unit’s only senior was also a force on the Crimson’s special teams, finishing the season tied with senior Ryan Maki for the team lead in power-play goals with eight...
...house of Tudor stretched from 1485, with the coronation of King Henry VII, to 1603, the end of the reign of Elizabeth I, Henry VIII's daughter with Anne Boleyn. It was an era of religious turmoil, fomented by coquettish Lady Anne Boleyn lobbying for her King to annul his marriage to his first wife, Catherine. As Henry teetered between Catherine's Catholicism and Anne's Protestantism, the faith of a nation depended on a monarch's lust. "Our biggest enemy is terrorism," says Charles Beem, a historian at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. "Theirs was the Reformation...
...series takes full advantage of the beauty of the era, sometimes embellishing it. Henry's high-collared leather costumes are meant to evoke a kind of Tudor Mick Jagger in his prime. Anne Boleyn is described by historians as plain looking, but as played by Casanova's Natalie Dormer in gigantic jewels and plunging necklines, she becomes progressively more stunning as the series unfolds and her power over Henry expands. Hirst says he contemporized dialogue but not much else, and he estimates that about 85% of the show is historically accurate. By adding dimension to the standard caricatures of Henry...
While the movies and TV shows are creating a lot of splash, much of the credit for the current Tudor revival probably belongs to British historical novelist Gregory, whose book The Other Boleyn Girl is in print in 26 countries, including Japan and Russia, with more than 1 million copies sold in the U.S. Behind the popularity of Gregory's intelligent, well-researched books--including her most recent, The Boleyn Inheritance--is the author's focus on the secret histories of the women on the sidelines of the Tudor era. The Other Boleyn Girl depicts Henry's claustrophobic court from...
...readers like my heroines," says Gregory. "There is something about women in a lot of danger making their own way that appeals." Which raises an interesting question: Is it the difference from their own lives or the similarity to the Tudors' situation that Gregory's fans find compelling? Though it's generally considered a period in which women were repressed, Beem--whose book The Lioness Roared focuses on female rule in English history--feels the Tudor era is of particular interest to women in positions of influence. In terms of being a female in a boys' club, Elizabeth...