Publication Feature: Intercultural Explorations at the Court of Henry VIII

This episode is an interview with Nadia van Pelt about her new book, Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII which came out with OUP in December 2023. In this episode Dr Ellie Woodacre asks the author about the inspiration behind the book, the role of the fool at the Tudor court and about an exciting document that Nadia discovered which sheds new light on Henry's marriage to Anne of Cleves.

Guest Bio: Nadia van Pelt is a lecturer at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. She holds a PhD from the University of Southampton, and published her first book with Routledge in 2019. Her research sits on the intersection between literary and cultural history, with a focus on drama, performance, and ritual.

Publications: 
·       Drama in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Playmakers and Their Strategies (Routledge, 2019)

·       Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves, History Today, April 2024

·       Speaking of Kings and Popes under the Shadow of Henry VIII’s Treason Act: Bale’s King Johan, RSJ 8.1(2021)

·       Katherine of Aragon's Deathbed: Why Chapuys Brought a Fool, Early Theatre 24.1 (2021)

·       Royal epistolary courtship in Latin? Arthur Tudor's “love letter” to Katherine of Aragon at the Archivo General de Simancas and Francesco Negri's Ars Epistolandi, Renaissance Studies 38.2 (2024)

·       John Blanke’s Wages: No Business Like Show Business, Medieval English Theatre 44 (2023): https://doi.org/10.1017/9781805430438.002 [JSTOR or Cambridge Core]

·      Teens and Tudors: The Pedagogy of Royal Studies, RSJ 1.1 (2014)

·      Enter Queen: Metatheatricality and the Monarch on/off Stage, The Image and Perception of Monarchy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2014)