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Europes Babylon: 16th-Century Antwerp was a City of Wealth, Vice, Heresy, and Freedom

Published: Jan. 4, 2022, 7:05 a.m.

Before Amsterdam, there was a dazzling North Sea port at the hub of the known world: the city of Antwerp. For half the sixteenth century, it was the place for breaking rules \u2013 religious, sexual, intellectual. Known as Europe\u2019s Babylon, the once-humble...