The Edge Of The World (2015)

History / Europe / Medieval, - History / Europe / Western, - History / Military / Revolutions & Wars of Independence -

NOT_MATURE -

Michael Pye

04/15/2015
Overview
Saints and spies, pirates and philosophers, artists and intellectuals: they all criss-crossed the grey North Sea in the so-called “dark ages,” the years between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of Europe’s mastery over the oceans. Now the critically acclaimed Michael Pye reveals the cultural transformation sparked by those men and women: the ideas, technology, science, law, and moral codes that helped create our modern world. This is the magnificent lost history of a thousand years. It was on the shores of the North Sea where experimental science was born, where women first had the right to choose whom they married; there was the beginning of contemporary business transactions and the advent of the printed book. In The Edge of the World, Michael Pye draws on an astounding breadth of original source material to illuminate this fascinating region during a pivotal era in world history.
Original Language

English

Buy Print
amazon logo

Buy on amazon

More by Author

Sep 27, 2022
A rich history of Antwerp and Radio 4 Book of the Week, from the author of the acclaimed bestseller ...
Apr 15, 2015
Saints and spies, pirates and philosophers, artists and intellectuals: they all criss-crossed the gr...
Mar 01, 1997
Set during the terrible winter of 1642, in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, this haunting and evoc...
Dec 18, 2007
Martin Arkenhout found his true calling on a lonely Florida highway -- with a sharp rock to the skul...
Dec 30, 2014
Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, fro...
Feb 10, 2004
In the great disorder of wartime Berlin, Lucia Muller-Rossi was an unofficial star: mistress to an A...
Jan 01, 2004
Der international renommierte Religionswissenschaftler Michael Pye, seit 1982 Professor für Religion...
Jan 01, 2015
This is the first comprehensive study of all the major and many of the minor routes, The book also e...
Aug 02, 2004
'Skilful Means' is the key principle of Mahayana, one of the great Buddhist traditions. First descri...
Jan 01, 2006
Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for c...

Comments


No Comments Yet
Be the first to share what you think