{"product_id":"inventing-the-renaissance-the-myth-of-a-golden-age-ada-palmer-hardcover","title":"Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age -- Ada Palmer, Hardcover","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn irreverent new take on the Renaissance, which reveals it as anything but Europe's golden age.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the darkness of a plagued and war-torn Middle Ages, the Renaissance (we're told) heralds the dawning of a new world--a halcyon age of art, prosperity, and rebirth. Hogwash! or so says award-winning novelist and historian Ada Palmer. In \u003ci\u003eInventing the Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e, Palmer turns her witty and irreverent eye on the fantasies we've told ourselves about Europe's not-so-golden age, myths she sets right with sharp clarity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Palmer's Renaissance is altogether desperate. Troubled by centuries of conflict, she argues, Europe looked to a long-lost Roman Empire (even its education practices) to save them from unending war. Later historians met their own political challenges with a similarly nostalgic vision, only now they looked to the Renaissance and told a partial story. To right this wrong, Palmer offers fifteen provocative portraits of Renaissance men and women (some famous, some obscure) whose lives reveal a far more diverse, fragile, and wild Renaissance than its glowing reputation suggests.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ada Palmer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/21\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 768\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226837970\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAda Palmer \u003c\/b\u003eis associate professor of early modern European history and the College at the University of Chicago. She is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eReading Lucretius in the Renaissance \u003c\/i\u003eand the award-winning \u003ci\u003eTerra Ignota \u003c\/i\u003eseries of novels.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ada Palmer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49803940659428,"sku":"9780226837970","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780226837970.jpg?v=1788680647","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/inventing-the-renaissance-the-myth-of-a-golden-age-ada-palmer-hardcover","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}