Elvira Viktória Tamus
Elvira Viktória Tamus is a PhD Candidate at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. Her doctoral research examines the actors of early sixteenth-century Franco-Hungarian diplomacy within the wider context of European geopolitics and great power relations. She holds a BA in History and French from the University of Leicester and an MA in History from Leiden University. Elvira is also the Course Coordinator of the Global History Lab and has previously worked as a Research Assistant at the Centre for Geopolitics (both based at Cambridge). Today she talks about explorer Jacques Cartier’s voyages and their relation to France’s greater geostrategic aims.
Oct. 3, 2025
Jacques Cartier and France’s Atlantic Horizons by Elvira Viktória Tamus
Explorer Jacques Cartier's voyages into the unknown mapped parts of the New World, but were also rooted in European geopolitics. Scholar Elvira Viktória Tamus explains Cartier's place in exploration, war and power.