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Summary: "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 that our way of thinking changed from medieval to modern. Experimental science was born, women had the right to choose whom they married. There was the beginning of contemporary business transactions, the birth of fashion, 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."

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Summary: "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 that our way of thinking changed from medieval to modern. Experimental science was born, women had the right to choose whom they married. There was the beginning of contemporary business transactions, the birth of fashion, 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."

Summary: In a lost history of a thousand years, an award-winning author, taking readers on an epic adventure rife with saints, spies, pirates, philosophers, artists and intellectuals, tells the extraordinary story of how modernity emerged on the shores of the North Sea