Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Portrait of Henry VIII

  • The sweating sickness in Tudor England: a plague of the Renaissance

    Philip R. Liebson Chicago, Illinois, United States   Portrait of Henry VIII, c. 1537 Hans Holbein the Younger Oil on canvas 11” × 8” Introduction In the recent semi-fictional work by Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, which takes place in the early 16th century, the protagonist Thomas Cromwell, counsel and henchman of Henry VIII, awakens in…