This week's episode is brought to you by me again, but I'm not here plugging hero

to worlds, although on second thought, yeah, go pre-order hero to worlds, but I'm actually

here to plug the Verge, Reformation, Renaissance, and 40 years that shook the world by fellow

history podcast guy Patrick Weiman.

The Verge is about the crucial decades between 1490 and 1530 that birth so much of what

we understand as the modern world.

I've read it, it's fantastic, and even though it's technically going to teach you about

banking and the logistical micro economics of like the early printing press, it's super

engrossing and wraps all this information up in the stories of fascinating individual

lives.

So I wrote a blurb for the book and I think I'm just going to read it to you right now.

In the Verge, Patrick Weiman expertly weaves the story of the birth of modernity, with a

masterful gift for storytelling.

Weiman connects fascinating individual lives to the massive social changes they unleashed,

making the Verge as engrossing as it is informative.

Weiman takes us from fleets in the Atlantic to silver mines in Hungary, to wool traders in

England to the richest banks in Europe, clearly illustrating the sophisticated economic,

technological and political forces driving Europe towards global domination.

The Verge is a must read for anyone who wants to understand the origins of the modern world.

So that sounds pretty good, right?

So this is Pub Week for Patrick.

His book comes out on July 20th, and part of the reason I'm here talking to you now about

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