An Evening With Jerry Brotton

Name: An Evening With Jerry Brotton
Start: 2024-10-16T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Burghley House

Schedule

Wed Oct 16 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Burghley House | Stamford, EN

We are really excited to be selling books for Jerry Brotton at his event at Burghley House, in conjunction with Handheld Events.
To get your tickets please visit Burghley House's website: https://burghley.co.uk/events/jerry-brotton
Jerry Brotton is a British historian, professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London, a television and radio presenter and a curator. His many books include This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World, winner of the Historical Writer’s Association non-fiction crown, a Waterstone’s book of the year, and serialised on Radio 4; the bestselling and award winning A History of the World in 12 Maps; and The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and His Art Collection, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. He has written and presented numerous TV and radio programmes for BBC4, Radio 3, Radio 4 and the BBC World Service.
Set in Burghley House, one of the grandest houses of the Tudor period, Jerry will take us on a journey of exploration and discovery. Jerry and the Burghley head curator Jon Culverhouse will explore the Treasures from the East exhibition, including rarely seen priceless treasures collected over the centuries, to exploration of fascinating journeys of history, material culture, trade, and east-west relations through time.
Here's a little taster of his recent Books:
This Orient Isle
In 1570, after plots and assassination attempts against her, Elizabeth I was excommunicated by the Pope. It was the beginning of cultural, economic and political exchanges with the Islamic world of a depth not again experienced until the modern age.

The Four Points of the Compass (published 4 September 2024)
Takes the reader on a journey of directional discovery. Jerry Brotton reveals why Hebrew culture privileges east; why Renaissance Europeans began drawing north at the top of their maps; why the early Islam revered the south; why the Aztecs used five colour-coded cardinal directions; and why no societies, primitive or modern, have ever orientated themselves westwards.