JohnSteed
·Awesome!!
Beautiful and congrats — and shout out to @marturx for being such a good pal.
This forum beautifully reminds me of the networks of traders in the middle ages, who enabled international trade with the invention of the “letter of credit”, they relied on pure trust and one another’s good name to make local payments in local currencies and debts recorded on paper could be transferred. Powerful port cities emerged, new continents explored, paving the way for an explosion of private commissions of arts called the Renaissance.
Sorry for thread hijack, a beautiful chrono indeed.
Did you get your that from ‘connections’? Just watched that episode with my son
No, I made my own blend of various ingredients: classes on the history of law and business, travels and books including a great one called “The Renaissance” by a leading historian named Paul Johnson . I don’t know what “connections” is. Call me old fashioned.
It was a British TV show in the 1970s. Hosted by James Burke. Find the episode about GPS and the Romans
I’m French, no idea where to find such a thing. On Netflix?