The Wideness of the World

Widespread literacy is perhaps the watershed between what we call the modern era and all that came before. When every merchant, every soldier, and every sailor can record their tales, then stories from one end of the earth may reach, and be told, at the other.

Discover, then, these stories: on the printing press, up the forecastle, on an uninhabited isle across uncharted seas, or just around the corner nailed to the cathedral door. Follow them as they spread from tavern to theatre, from dockside to cloister, from palace to slum and back, until they encompass…

The Wideness of the World.