Europe's Babylon : the rise and fall of Antwerp's golden age / Michael Pye.

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, ea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pye, Michael, 1946- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2021.
Edition:First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Subjects:
Antwerp (Belgium) > History > 16th century.
Antwerp (Belgium) > Intellectual life > 16th century.
Renaissance > Belgium > Antwerp.
HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance.
HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century.
Intellectual life.
Renaissance.
Belgium > Antwerp.
1500-1599
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xi, 272 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Rise and fall of Antwerp's golden age
Format: Book

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