In The Story of the Jews, the Talmud burns in the streets of Paris, massed gibbets hang over the streets of medieval London, a Majorcan illuminator redraws the world; candles are lit, chants are su…
The embarrassment of riches is well named. Schama's method is wonderfully inclusive; with wit and intencese curiosity he teases out meaning from every aspect of Dutch seventeeh century life, from i…