The heavens laugh, the earth exalts, our king does not desire gold or gems or precious metals,

but virtue, glory, and immortality.

That's William Blount on Henry the 8th's accession in 1509. Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast Network.

I'm your host, Heather Tesco, and I'm a storyteller who makes history accessible because

I believe it's a pathway to understanding who we are, our place in the

universe, and being more deeply in touch with our own humanity. This is episode 131. It's a listener

suggested episode on Tudor Inventions. First, I'd like to thank my newest patron on Patreon

though. That's Donna. I just did a big rundown last episode of all my patrons, so I'm not

going to do that again right now. But thank you so much, Donna, for your patronage. All of our patrons

just received a free digital copy of the newest Tudor Activity book, which is about the field of

cloth of gold. And patrons at the $3 per episode level or higher receive a free tutor planner each year, as well as everybody

gets lots of other fun gifts and goodies. So if you'd like to join this highly intelligent

group of people who support independent podcasting and storytelling, please go to patreon.com

slash Englandcast. And before we get started, I want to remind you about TudorCon, which is,

oh my gosh, just about three weeks away, you guys. And ticket prices are going to go up on October 4th. And that's because it's just two weeks away from the event. There's more admin for us to get you in if you're coming that late. So get your tickets before October 4th. If you're still on the fence, it's time. Like procrastinators, I totally get you. I'm right there

with you. And now's like the time where you get off the fence. So there's still tickets for this event.

It's three days of learning, feasts, parties and getting to do all of that with 120 of your new

best tutor enthusiast friends. And the more I look at the schedule, the more excited I get.

We're going to have amazing entertainers. We're going to have live music from the King's Legacy,

which is Michael Rattie's new musical. On Friday night at the party, we're going to have music

from Chase Treasure. That's a group that sings kind of modern body music, but in a tutor style.

We're also going to have music from pastime, which plays authentic music. They're going to be focusing on some of the music that Henry the 8th himself wrote. We're going to have entertainment from Greg Ramsey, who does a Woo Master skit at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Fair. We're going to have dancing lessons. It's going to be so much fun. And then we're going to have talks. We're going to have a medieval feast.

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