![]() His frequent use of primary sources as well as fictional literary works gives the work an ethereal nature. Pye's message and intention provides the reader with a refreshing view of the connection between time and place. Grey the waters of the North Sea may be but Pye has successfully dyed them with a multitude of rich colors., From a new perspective on the Vikings to an examination of information as a form of currency, Pye's book offers an engaging and enlightening look at a little understood time and place., Historian Pye excels at painting a unique portrait of the political, economic, and cultural transformation that has occurred on the shores of the North Sea. ![]() It is the measure of Pye's achievement that he can breathe life into the traders of seventh-century Frisia or the beguines of late-medieval Flanders as well as into his more celebrated subjects. ![]()
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