Interview – Dr Ada Palmer on Myths of the Renaissance

Source	https://historyforatheists.com/2025/04/interview-dr-ada-palmer-on-myths-of-the-renaissance/
Author	Tim O'Neill
Published	2025-04-27, 03:05 AM
Summary	My guest today is Dr Ada Palmer, Associate Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Chicago and author Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age. I must say I haven’t enjoyed reading a book as much as this one in quite some time. Dr Palmer takes the traditional idea of the Renaissance – that it was a glorious rebirth of reason, artistic mastery and secular thinking after a centuries long dark age – and shows this is... Read More Read More The post Interview – Dr Ada
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