A review by ethanhedman
The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World by Patrick Wyman

3.0

A solid introduction to history of many trends/events between 1490-1530. Wyman’s covers the Reformation, the commodification of military might in Europe, and the transformation of dynastic states, and manages to throw in a chapter on the Ottoman empire - Europe’s greatest outside threat. Wyman’s central argument is that the rise of capital as labor was expensive and things became more expensive to produce transformed empire during this time to mean alliances, exploratory voyages, and war itself took on a new shape that shaped the world we live in today.