Antwerp
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This rich history of Antwerp was a Times Book of the Year and R4
Book of the WeekEven before Amsterdam there was a dazzling North
Sea port at the hub of the known world: the city of Antwerp.
Antwerp was sensational like nineteenth-century Paris or
twentieth-century New York, 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.In
Antwerp, things changed. One man cornered all the money in the city
and reinvented ideas of what money meant. Another gave Antwerp 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.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 learning how to be a power in its own right in the
world after feudalism. This is the Antwerp which was the proud
'exception' to all of Europe.
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Penguin Books ,
Michael Pye
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Penguin Books,
Michael Pye
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Slovart
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