How Did the Americas Transform Renaissance England? With Lauren Working
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Sarenti. When we think of Renaissance England, we often picture Shakespeare and the splendour of royal courts. But how much of this so-called golden age was shaped by the people, ideas, and resources from the Americas. On today's episode, Loren Working, historian and lecturer in early modern literature at the University of York, joins Caroline Dodds Panick, historian and professor in international history at the University of Sheffield, to discuss Working's new book, A Golden World, How the Americas Transformed Renaissance England, and the profound influence of the New World.
on the English society, culture and imagination. Let's join our host Caroline DoddsPannock now with more. Welcome to Intelligence Squared, Loren. It's really nice to talk to you. I was privileged to get an advanced copy of Lorraine's book, and it is just a a really fascinating, rich work which asks us to think differently about a period that I think people often think they know very well, which is the golden age of Renaissance. People might call it early modern England. So maybe we could start by um asking what is the story people usually tell about this period and what is it that you think is missing from that story? Yeah, thanks, Caroline. Um I'd love to ask listeners kind of what they what their associations with the the Tudors and the Stuarts are.
But I think, you know, when we think of this period, it's often dominated by um court portraiture, you know, the kind of objects and art that comes down to us. So we might think about the paintings of Hans Holbein, we might think about the Reformation And perhaps things like timber frame houses and this this kind of insular idea, maybe, of of a kind of merry old England. Um before it got really
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