Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age by Ada Palmer

Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age

Ada Palmer

768 pages hardcover 2025

6 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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An irreverent new take on the Renaissance, which reveals it as anything but Europe’s golden age. 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, prosper...

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