Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton (born in Bradford in 1969) is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London, a TV and radio presenter and a curator.

He writes about literature, history, material culture, trade, and east-west relations, particularly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They are distinguished by their interdisciplinary approaches, looking at art, politics, history, travel writing and literature, and by their combination of erudition with an accessible style. His international bestseller A History of the World in Twelve Maps (Allen Lane, 2012) has been translated into twelve languages. It was accompanied by a three-part series on BBC4, 'Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession'. His The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and His Art Collection (Macmillan, 2006) was nominated for the Samuel Johnson Prize (now the Baillie Gifford Prize Baillie Gifford Prize). It wryly proposes that the dispersal of Charles I's art collection in 1649 was a democratic move, one that merits imitation in the contemporary world. His most recent book, The Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World (London: Allen Lane, 2016) was serialised on Radio 4 and won the Historical Writers Association Non-Fiction Crown (2017).

In addition to his historical writing he has collaborated with the art world as a curator and commentator, most notably with the artist and director of Factum Arte Factum Arte, Adam Lowe, in the exhibit Penelope’s Labour: Weaving Words and Images, at the Venice Biennale in 2011.

He has written and presented various radio programmes for BBC Radio 3, 4 and World Service on historical subjects ranging from Shakespeare to the history of the ghetto and El Dorado. He appears regularly on TV programmes and reviews for a variety of newspapers, magazines and journals.

References

Jerry Brotton, The Sale of the Late King’s Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection (London: Pan Macmillan, 2006)

Jerry Brotton, A History of the World in Twelve Maps (London: Allen Lane, 2012)

Jerry Brotton, The Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World (London: Allen Lane, 2016)

http://www.sed.qmul.ac.uk/staff/brottonj.html

https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/jerry-brotton

https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/jerry-brotton/33061/

http://hwacrowns.co.uk/hwa-non-fiction-crown/

http://www.factum-arte.com/pag/283/Penelope-apos-s-Labour---Weaving-Words-and-Images

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