Antwerp
Uitgeverij: | Penguin Group |
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Uitvoering: | Gebonden |
Taal: | Engels |
Aantal Pagina's: | 336 |
Afmetingen: | 156x240x33 |
Verschijningsdatum: | Augustus 2021 |
EAN: | 9780241243213 |
Omschrijving
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