Show Notes
The 16th Century saw a two way exchange of objects, ideas and people between Europe and the Americas to a far greater extent than is often understood.
Much of that exchange is visible in the everyday objects and trade that took place between these two different worlds. Exchange that can get lost when we frame history through the eyes and acts of individuals of recognition, renown or infamy. Today we’re going to explore the influence of the Americas on Tudor England and beyond.
Guest Lauren Working is a historian at the University of York who specialises in literary sociability, material culture, and colonialism in the age of Shakespeare. Her academic work includes The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis (published by Cambridge University Press in 2020) and a new introduction to The Tempest for Oxford World’s Classics. A Golden World: How the Americas Transformed Renaissance England just came out a few weeks ago with Faber & Faber. It is her first trade book.
Cats present Cecilia (tail), Napoleon
Useful links A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia: https://archive.org/details/briefetruereport00harr/
The Discoverie of Guina: https://archive.org/details/discoveryofguian00rale
A Golden World: How the Americas Transformed Renaissance England https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-golden-world-how-the-americas-transformed-renaissance-england-lauren-working/67c60316d60d6557?ean=9780571393831&next=t
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