• Michael Pye on the Rise and Fall of Antwerp as a “World City”

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    In this episode of Keen On, Andrew is joined by Michael Pye, the author of Europe’s Babylon: The Rise and Fall of Antwerp’s Golden Age, to relive the city’s turbulent past at a time when Antwerp transitioned from a state of feudalism to a position of power.

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    Michael Pye writes for a living—as a novelist, journalist, historian, and sometimes broadcaster. He is English by birth, but civilized by study in Italy and a newspaper apprenticeship in Scotland. He has published ten books, and is proud of some of them.


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