Antwerpen. De gloriejaren

Antwerpen. De gloriejaren

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  • Create Date:2021-09-07 07:50:56
  • Update Date:2025-09-06
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  • Author:Michael Pye
  • ISBN:9403134216
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Summary

De stad die Antwerpen ooit geweest is, is vandaag de dag haast onherkenbaar。 Verwoest door de vlammen en bombardementen van de wereldoorlogen is haar geschiedenis goed verstopt achter een façade van herbouwde monumenten。 Toch was de havenstad ooit het middelpunt van de wereld。
Als handelscentrum kende Antwerpen in de zestiende eeuw geen evenbeeld, en haar rijkdom en weelde leken ongeëvenaard。 De stad van Plantijn en Brueghel stond bol van de bedrijvigheid。 Bezoekers kwamen met hun koopwaar uit alle uithoeken van de wereld naar de stad waar de geldhandel floreerde。
Tegelijkertijd kende Antwerpen ook een schaduwkant: rellen, muiterijen en de inquisitie, die als een donkere wolk boven de joodse en protestante inwoners hing, lieten de uitzonderlijke welvaart van korte duur zijn。 Desalniettemin blijkt de invloed van Antwerpen blijvend。
Met Antwerpen ontsluit bestsellerauteur Michael Pye het verhaal van een stad die tegen alle verwachtingen in opkwam als het kloppend hart van de zestiende eeuw, en in korte tijd de wereld wist te veranderen。 Eén ding is volgens Pye zeker: zonder de Antwerpse geschiedenis zou vandaag niets hetzelfde zijn。

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Reviews

Jan Cox

This book will make you understand Antwerp, not just the historical one… Every Antverpian should read this。

Martin Drew

I enjoyed this meticulously researched and well written book。 What Michael Pye has done is explain Antwerp's rise to being the business capital of Europe by homing in on the people who created the businesses that made the city so important, writing mini biographies of some of them, which is fascinating and a perfectly legitimate device but it also means there is not a coherent timeline。 Having said that it is a riveting story of how the city under the somewhat lax authority of the Duke of Braban I enjoyed this meticulously researched and well written book。 What Michael Pye has done is explain Antwerp's rise to being the business capital of Europe by homing in on the people who created the businesses that made the city so important, writing mini biographies of some of them, which is fascinating and a perfectly legitimate device but it also means there is not a coherent timeline。 Having said that it is a riveting story of how the city under the somewhat lax authority of the Duke of Brabant ignored the regulations relating to trade and business。 The city invented the Beurs, a building where merchants could trade and which was soon copied (the Royal Exchange in London for example) and it could be said that the idea of money being a traded commodity was created in Antwerp。 As the inquisition was spreading Antwerp was a safe haven for Jews and adherents to faiths other than Catholicism。 Plantin printed the Bible in languages that were not allowed by the Vatican and they printed books that were promoting the more nonconformist versions of Christianity that were surfacing at that time。 This was the period of the wars of religion and inevitably Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and his son Philip eventually moved to impose the regulations and with the expulsion of the Protestants and other non-conforming faiths the glory years of Antwerp were over, thousands were killed and houses destroyed, but if you ever visit Antwerp the Plantin-Moretus Museum is fascinating - a survival from when the city was the business centre of Europe。 。。。more

Zeb Kantrowitz

In the sixteenth century, Antwerp was to become the hub of commerce in northern Europe。 It had gained bankers, brokers, jewelers, printers and other professionals who had fled the inquisition in Spain and Portugal。 Though part of the Spanish Netherlands (the part that became Belgium), the city was an almost independent city state。 Though nominally Catholic, the city was famous for publishing copies of the Lutheran Bible and other Protestant polemics in many languages that infuriated the Vatican。 In the sixteenth century, Antwerp was to become the hub of commerce in northern Europe。 It had gained bankers, brokers, jewelers, printers and other professionals who had fled the inquisition in Spain and Portugal。 Though part of the Spanish Netherlands (the part that became Belgium), the city was an almost independent city state。 Though nominally Catholic, the city was famous for publishing copies of the Lutheran Bible and other Protestant polemics in many languages that infuriated the Vatican。 Because it helped to fund the wars of Charles V and his son Phillip II, the Holy Roman Emperor was lax when it came to those of the new religions and the Spanish Conversos (converted Jews)。 In trade the city was the Atlantic port for the Hanseatic League and the spice trade from the Far East by way of the Cape of Good Hope。 As the century wore on, the Netherlands consolidated their control of much of this trade and because of the pressure from the Catholic Hapsburgs, went slowly into decline。 The wars of religion were the death of Antwerp as it was surpassed by Amsterdam。 。。。more