The Land of the Great Image: Historical Narrative

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The rapid expansion of trade was remaking the social and political map of Europe, at the same time that explorers were redrawing the physical map.

But we are more concerned here with one of the indirect effects of the Crusades, which was to bring Europeans into contact with the riches of the lands along the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea, consequently opening up overland trade routes to Asia, from which many desirable goods, such as rugs, silks, gold brocade, perfumes, teas, precious stones, dye-woods, and unusual spices such as pepper, nutmeg, and cloves, could be imported.He was intent upon sustaining the benefits of Tudor rule and building a strong and durable monarchy. Instead, it is a selection out of that expansive river of the past, like a carefully cropped photograph, organized wisely and truthfully, which allows us to focus in with clarity on a particular story, with particular objectives in mind.

It is part of the human condition, and a recurrent feature of human history, that what we find is not always what we were looking for, and what we accomplish is not always what we set out to do. McGill-Queen’s University Press in Montreal is on land which long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous Peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. And all along Manrique’s way the author waits at every turn with another curiosity, another historical tidbit for the reader to relish. He had made one of the most important discoveries in human history, and yet he didn’t quite realize it.

But too much of that will get in the way of relating the most important parts of the story and illuminating the pattern of your own life. At the time they were built, the great medieval cathedrals that still dot Europe’s landscape served as the focal points of their towns, architectural expressions of the age’s confidence in its having found a harmonious union of the sacred and the secular. INTEREST RATE TAKEN IN, CORRECT FROM THE PERIOD OF 01/01/2023 – 30/06/2023 AND IS CORRECT AS AT 04/07/2023. No representation or warranty is made in respect to the structure of any properties nor in relation to their state of repair.