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Inventing the Renaissance
Myths of a Golden Age
Buch von Ada Palmer
Sprache: Englisch

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The Renaissance is one of the most studied and celebrated eras of history. Spanning the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of modernity, it has come to symbolise the transformative rebirth of knowledge, art, culture and political thought in Europe. And for the last two hundred years, historians have struggled to describe what makes this famous golden age unique.

In Inventing the Renaissance, acclaimed historian Ada Palmer provides a fresh perspective on what makes this epoch so captivating. Her witty and irreverent journey through the fantasies historians have constructed about the period show how its legend derives more from later centuries' mythmaking than from the often grim reality of the period itself. She examines its defining figures and movements: the enduring legacy of Niccolò Machiavelli, the rediscovery of the classics, the rise of the Medici and fall of the Borgias, the astonishing artistic achievements of Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Cellini, the impact of the Inquisition and the expansion of secular Humanism. Palmer also explores the ties between culture and money: books, for example, could cost as much as grand houses, so the period's innovative thinkers could only thrive with the help of the super-rich. She offers fifteen provocative and entertaining character portraits of Renaissance men and women, some famous, some obscure, whose intersecting lives show how the real Renaissance was more unexpected, more international and, above all, more desperate than its golden reputation suggests.

Drawing on her popular blogs and writing with her characteristic energy and wit, Palmer presents the Renaissance as we have never seen it before. Colloquial, funny and brilliant, you would never expect a work of deep scholarship to make you alternately laugh and cry.
The Renaissance is one of the most studied and celebrated eras of history. Spanning the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of modernity, it has come to symbolise the transformative rebirth of knowledge, art, culture and political thought in Europe. And for the last two hundred years, historians have struggled to describe what makes this famous golden age unique.

In Inventing the Renaissance, acclaimed historian Ada Palmer provides a fresh perspective on what makes this epoch so captivating. Her witty and irreverent journey through the fantasies historians have constructed about the period show how its legend derives more from later centuries' mythmaking than from the often grim reality of the period itself. She examines its defining figures and movements: the enduring legacy of Niccolò Machiavelli, the rediscovery of the classics, the rise of the Medici and fall of the Borgias, the astonishing artistic achievements of Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Cellini, the impact of the Inquisition and the expansion of secular Humanism. Palmer also explores the ties between culture and money: books, for example, could cost as much as grand houses, so the period's innovative thinkers could only thrive with the help of the super-rich. She offers fifteen provocative and entertaining character portraits of Renaissance men and women, some famous, some obscure, whose intersecting lives show how the real Renaissance was more unexpected, more international and, above all, more desperate than its golden reputation suggests.

Drawing on her popular blogs and writing with her characteristic energy and wit, Palmer presents the Renaissance as we have never seen it before. Colloquial, funny and brilliant, you would never expect a work of deep scholarship to make you alternately laugh and cry.
Über den Autor

Ada Palmer is an internationally acclaimed science fiction and fantasy novelist, historian and composer. She completed her PhD at Harvard, teaches History at the University of Chicago, blogs and podcasts at [...], and composes and performs close harmony a cappella music with the group Sassafrass.

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Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Jahrhundert: Neuzeit
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9781035910120
ISBN-10: 1035910128
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Palmer, Ada
Hersteller: Bloomsbury UK
Head of Zeus
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen: 35 integrated bw illustrations
Maße: 242 x 166 x 57 mm
Von/Mit: Ada Palmer
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.02.2025
Gewicht: 0,978 kg
Artikel-ID: 131099757
Über den Autor

Ada Palmer is an internationally acclaimed science fiction and fantasy novelist, historian and composer. She completed her PhD at Harvard, teaches History at the University of Chicago, blogs and podcasts at [...], and composes and performs close harmony a cappella music with the group Sassafrass.

[...]
X: [...]

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Jahrhundert: Neuzeit
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9781035910120
ISBN-10: 1035910128
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Palmer, Ada
Hersteller: Bloomsbury UK
Head of Zeus
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen: 35 integrated bw illustrations
Maße: 242 x 166 x 57 mm
Von/Mit: Ada Palmer
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.02.2025
Gewicht: 0,978 kg
Artikel-ID: 131099757
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