Hey friends, welcome to the Renaissance English History podcast.

This is the weekly highlight reel of videos that I have put out on YouTube.

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And then what I've started doing is weekly highlight reels of some of the videos that have

gone out on YouTube that would be of interest to the podcast listeners as well. So thanks for

listening. And you can also, like I said, go over and join me on YouTube history and coffee

and search for Heather. And there I am. So let's get right into it. Today we are going to have a talk

about women in the arts and literary patrons and just how women contributed to the music arts

scene in Tudor England. The Tudor Elizabethan period, of course, was famous for its flowering of literature,

of music. There was, you know, the Elizabethan golden age of Bill in the Blank, you name it.

It's actually how I got into tutor history. Gosh, 30 years ago, more than that, in my

high school chamber choir, I know, I don't look like I could have been in high school 30 years ago.

I started high school when I was two, basically.

So in my high school chamber choir, we sang William Byrd's Ave Verum Corpus.

And my chamber choir director made some comment about how William Byrd was a Catholic and he was

writing in the court of Elizabeth who was Protestant and how that must have been hard for him

and something about a recusant Catholic. And I remember thinking like what is this recquisite

cat like something about that really appealed to my inner two-year-old rebel at the time. And so I started learning about what

Reckies and Catholics were. And I, you know, learned about it. And that was how I got into

tutor history. So it was through one of the arts and cultures and music and all of that,

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