Europe's Babylon: The Rise and Fall of Antwerp's Golden Age

Pye, Michael

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Pegasus Books, New York and London, 2021

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xi, 272 pages, [16] pages of plates, colour illustrations, colour maps; 24 cm. Maps on lining papers. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Pegasus Books cloth edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Before Amsterdam, there was a dazzling North Sea port at the hub of the known world: the city of Antwerp. In the Age of Exploration, Antwerp was sensational like nineteenth-century Paris or twentieth-century New York. It was somewhere anything could happen or at least be believed: killer bankers, easy kisses, a market in secrets and every kind of heresy. For half the sixteenth century, it was the place for breaking rules--religious, sexual, intellectual. And it was a place of change--a single man cornered all the money in the city and reinvented ideas of what money meant. Another gave the city a new shape purely out of his own ambition. Jews fleeing the Portuguese Inquisition needed Antwerp for their escape, thanks to the remarkable woman at the head of the grandest banking family in Europe. Thomas More opened 'Utopia' there, Erasmus puzzled over money and exchanges, William Tyndale sheltered there and smuggled out his Bible in English until he was killed. Pieter Bruegel painted the town as 'The Tower of Babel.' But when Antwerp rebelled with the Dutch against the Spanish and lost, all that glory was buried and its true history rewritten. The city that unsettled so many now became conformist. Mutinous troops burned the city records, trying to erase its true history. In 'Europe's Babylon,' Michael Pye sets out to rediscover the city that was lost and bring its wilder days to life using every kind of clue: novels, paintings, songs, schoolbooks, letters and the archives of Venice, London and the Medici. He builds a picture of a city haunted by fire, plague, and violence, but one that was learning how to be a power in its own right as it emerged from feudalism. An astounding and original narrative that illuminates this glamorous and bloody era of history and reveals how this fascinating city played its role in making the world modern." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.…

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Titre
Europe's Babylon: The Rise and Fall of Antwerp's Golden Age
Auteur
Pye, Michael
Éditeur
Pegasus Books, New York and London
Année de publication
2021
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Fine
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Fine
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Collectible
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Hardcover
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anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1643137778
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781643137773
Édition
1st.
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