Inventing the RenaissanceAda Palmer
Inventing the Renaissance
by Ada Palmer · first published 2025
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It's good to read Ada Palmer's Inventing The Renaissance, because understanding whatever the Renaissance is (and Palmer says it is many different things), you need to understand the Middle Ages, since the Renaissance started with the fallout of Middle-Ages…
on “Seven books I keep close because I love them” ↗Allow me to make a small recommendation for the "best related work": Ada Palmer's 'Inventing the Renaissance.' It's a fantastic work of complex history, told with the tools of science fiction and fantasy writing. But it remains a high quality academic work: the tools are used to unravel the telling of a gay…
on “2026 Hugo Awards” ↗…with a patron. Some of these patron’d folk might have killed somebody last week for which they get to spent time with a priest working on the salvation of their soul and no further punishment. Source: Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer
on “The Hierarchy of Money” ↗Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer [1]. I don't tend to be great at finishing (or starting) books, and this is a big one. I've also never had any interest in Medieval or Renaissance history, for me it's been a black hole…
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