Der Morgen der Welt

The Renaissance was a revolution that forever changed Europe and then the entire world. In his grandly narrated book, Bernd Roeck unfolds an impressive panorama of this dramatic era. At the same time, he explains within the context of global history why Europe experienced this unique concentration of world-changing ideas, spectacular discoveries, and historical upheavals. To uncover the roots of the Renaissance, Bernd Roeck looks far back into the Middle Ages and antiquity—and well beyond the borders of Europe. With analytical sharpness and narrative brilliance, he brings the era to life before the reader's eyes: the great art that emerged under Italy's skies, the ideas of the humanists, as well as the religious wars and the beginnings of the subjugation of foreign lands. He tells the stories of merchants and poets, emperors and popes.