MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

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The Try Everything Age: Reviewing Ada Palmer’s ‘Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age’

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Joel J Miller
Jul 11, 2026
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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…

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