Best Way to See the Renaissance? Get the Panoramic View
The Try Everything Age: Reviewing Ada Palmer’s ‘Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age’
Historians can ply their trade countless ways, depending on their sources, interests, and audience. You can imagine a geographical Renaissance, a chronological one, or histories built around the period’s literature, art, economics, philosophy, wars, statecraft, or the lives of the popes (likely with sales correlated to salaciousness). All these books ex…
