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Dawn of the new era. The dramatic 16th century

In the 16th century, the world changed from the ground up. When Christopher Columbus discovered a previously unknown part of the world in 1492, the claim to European rule over this "new" world emerged at the same time; Christianity became a global religion. At the same time, the Old World was under enormous pressure from the Ottomans, who were expanding deep into Europe, and shortly afterwards its religious unity collapsed with the posting of Martin Luther's theses. Marina Münkler traces this dramatic age of discovery and conflict, telling of the "savages" of the New World and the "saints" of the Old, as well as the conflicts surrounding the "Turks". Münkler describes the media revolution of book printing and the Reformation, which completely changed the relationship of each individual not only to the church, but also to faith and the certainty of salvation, the birth of modern natural science, as well as peasant wars and witch burnings. A century that was fundamental in every respect - and which, as Marina Münkler shows, has much in common with us. A great work of history about the dawn of a new era, our era.

The book was published on 12.03.2024 by Rowohlt Verlang Berlin