The recent book by Patrick Wyman, a former journalist, historian and author of the “The Fall of Rome” podcast, is devoted to a period of four decades. These 40 years are not just any 40 years. In the words of the author, it is a period “relevant in the grand scheme of history”, a time of “extraordinary changes in European life and society with far-reaching implications for the future of the world”.
To illustrate the great events that took place between 1490 and 1530, Patrick Wyman chose “nine individuals to serve as windows into this history, real people who embodied the major themes of capital, state, war, and the press in their everyday lives.” , which both drove them and passively felt them.” Among these figures are D. Isabel de Castilla, the Ottoman sultan Solimán the Magnificent, or Christopher Columbus, whose life and work occupies the first chapter of on the edge of historywhich arrives in Portuguese bookstores on June 13, under the Objectiva label.
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Source: Observadora
