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A lively and exciting narrative history about the birth of the modern world. From the heady days just after the First Crusade, this volume - the third in the series that started with The Record of the Old World and The Record of the Medieval World - chronicles the contradictions of a world in change. Popes continue steadily to preach crusade, however the hope of any Christian empire comes to a bloody end at the wall surfaces of Constantinople. Aristotelian reasoning and Greek rationality blossom while the Inquisition gathers power. As kings and emperors continue steadily to insist on their divine rights, ordinary people worldwide seize power: the lingayats of India, the Jacquerie of France, the Red Turbans of China, and the peasants of Great britain. New threats show up, as the Ottomans emerge from a little Turkish community and the Mongols ride from the East to create the world on fire. New currencies are forged, new weapons created, and world-changing catastrophes adjust the scenery: the Little Ice Age and the Great Famine kill hundreds of thousands; the Black Death, millions more. In the chaos of these epoch-making events, our very own world begins for taking shape. Impressively explored and brilliantly advised, The Record of the Renaissance World offers not simply the names, dates, and facts however the memorable individuals who illuminate the years between 1100 and 1453 - years that designated a sea change in mankind's conception of the world.

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