Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation

Auteur(s) : Pye, Michael (1946-....)  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : Antwerp [Texte imprimé] : the glory years / Michael Pye

Publication : [Dublin] : AL, Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, copyright 2021

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (x, 271 p., 16 p. de pl. non num.) : ill. ; 24 cm

Note(s) : É́galement édité en traduction néerlandaise: "Antwerpen: de gloriejaren", De Bezige Bij, 2021 ISBN 9789403134215. - Notes bibliogr. Index
Even 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--éd

Sujet(s) : Vie intellectuelle -- Anvers (Belgique) -- 16e siècle  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Anvers (Belgique) -- 16e siècle  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Indice(s) Dewey :  949.322 202 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Belgique - Anvers - 1477-1830  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0241243211. - ISBN 9780241243213 (rel). - ISBN 9780241243220 (erroné) (ePub ebook)
EAN 9780241243213

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb468173937

Notice n° :  FRBNF46817393 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)