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# The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Enjoyed but not sure I agree with conclusion
  

*by M***E on Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2023*

The format  and content of book was interesting. Just not sure I came away with same enthusiasm of the author that these 40 years made all the difference. Some sections dragged but overall very interesting.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A good first book; hope Wyman focuses more next time
  

*by N***K on Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2023*

I heard that this book was incredible from people whose taste I otherwise trust. Well, can't be right all the time. This book is okay; far from a masterpiece of popular history. The focus of the book is the many political, financial, social and entrepreneurial threads that catalyzed each other in Europe in the late middle ages, and much of the book does animate how these factors merge and play off each other in an engaging way. What do financialized debt, the printing industry, the Reformation, the mercenary marketplace, etc. have in common?  to find out!Outside of this core feedback look, the connections feel far more strained, at least as Wyman lays them out. His chapter about Suleiman the Magnificent, for example, makes its point and draws its connection to the rest of the book in the space of maybe two pages; the rest of the chapter is a history of his conquests that serves more to fill pages than coalesce into the book's theme. The chapter about John Heritage and the process of enclosure in England also feels like a pretty loose fit with the rest; worth a mention but not as a focal chapter. I'd like to see Wyman take one of these chapters and really dive deeper into it. As presented currently each vignette feels a little light on its own.
  
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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    From Cultural Backwater to World Prominence
  

*by A***S on Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2021*

Patrick Wyman’s The Verge attempts to help answer what has become one of central historical questions of the twenty-first century: Why did the cultural backwater of medieval Europe rise to become the dominant power on the planet?While Wyman does not have the depth or scholarship of Jarred Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel—the first book I know of to phrase the enigma this way—that doesn’t mean it is uninteresting or not worth reading.Wyman chooses to focus on the history of four critical decades, 1490-1530. A contemporary analogy would be explaining modern history by focusing on the explosive changes of the 1960s.He then identifies ten key individuals whose life stories help explain the changes in European institutions at this time. The chapters aren’t really biographies, one rarely gets a sense of the person, but they are insightful nonetheless.Essentially, Wyman emphasizes banking and other financial institutions as giving Europe an edge. Coupled with the pillaging of New World peoples, Europe slowly gains ascendancy over long-lasting rivals like the Ottomans.Personally, I think Wyman underrates intellectual history and places too much emphasis on material goods, warfare and political actors. Isn’t it the Declaration of Independence that has inspired generations of revolutionaries worldwide? Haven’t many countries tried to imitate the Anglo-American form of democracy? Don’t the ideas of even a cultural outsider like Nietzsche continue to be read by the youth of many peoples?Despite these disagreements and descriptive imagery that borders on the cliche, I did get something out of this book and recommend it to all with an interest in modern European history.

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