Book : The Verge Reformation, Renaissance, And Forty Years..

-Titulo Original : The Verge Reformation, Renaissance, And Forty Years That Shook The World

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Twelve

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The creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530, bringing to life the dramatic and deeply human story of how the West was reborn. In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, The Verge tells the story of a period that marked a decisive turning point for both European and world history. Here, author Patrick Wyman examines two complementary and contradictory sides of the same historical coin: the world-altering implications of the developments of printed mass media, extreme taxation, exploitative globalization, humanistic learning, gunpowder warfare, and mass religious conflict in the long term, and their intensely disruptive consequences in the short-term.As told through the lives of ten real people-from famous figures like Christopher Columbus and wealthy banker Jakob Fugger to a ruthless small-time merchant and a one-armed mercenary captain-The Verge illustrates how their lives, and the times in which they lived, set the stage for an unprecedented globalized future.Over an intense forty-year period, the seeds for the so-called Great Divergence between Western Europe and the rest of the globe would be planted. From Columbuss voyage across the Atlantic to Martin Luthers sparking the Protestant Reformation, the foundations of our own, recognizably modern world came into being.For the past 500 years, historians, economists, and the policy-oriented have argued which of these individual developments best explains the Wests rise from backwater periphery to global dominance. As The Verge presents it, however, the answer is far more nuanced. Review Whip-smart and crackling with life, THE VERGE shines brilliant new light on the era when the world as we know it was made. The turn of the Middle Ages into the early modern age was an exciting, confounding, sometimes terrifying time, revolutionary in almost every way. And Patrick Wyman is the perfect guide to its convulsions: he has a scholar’s brain but a raconteur’s touch for finding humanity in even the most complex story. This is popular history as it should be written, and a terrific debut from a very accomplished writer. Dan Jones, New York Times bestselling author of THE PLANTAGENETS and THE TEMPLARSExtraordinary-THE VERGE deftly illustrates how a crucial forty-year takeoff period led Europe to world domination. Roger Crowley, New York Times bestselling author of EMPIRES OF THE SEA and THE ACCURSED TOWER: THE FALL OF ACRE AND THE END OF THE CRUSADES“In THE VERGE, Patrick Wyman expertly weaves the story of the birth of modernity. With a masterful gift for storytelling, Wyman connects fascinating individual lives to the massive social changes they unleashed, making THE VERGE as engrossing as it is informative. Wyman takes us from fleets in the Atlantic, to silver mines in Hungary, to wool traders in England, to the richest banks in Europe, clearly illustrating the sophisticated economic, technological, and political forces driving Europe towards global domination. THE VERGE is a must read for anyone who wants to understand the origins of the modern world.” Mike Duncan, New York Times bestselling author of THE STORM BEFORE THE STORMIf you want to understand why the world is the way it is today, you need to understand the events that took place in Western Europe during the 16th century. THE VERGE provides a glimpse into the world as it was 500 years ago, with a freshness and vivacity that can only come from someone with an intimate knowledge of how to write about both history and combat. Wyman uses the lives of key people-a queen, a colonizer, a banker, a knight-to introduce readers to the profound economic, political, technological, and social developments that provoked the development of the modern world. THE VERGE is an accessible and fascinating glimpse into the lives and thoughts of people who transformed the world. Jennifer Raff, assi