Ada Palmer: Inventing the Renaissance, Gebunden
Inventing the Renaissance
- The Myth of a Golden Age
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- Verlag:
- University of Chicago Press, 03/2025
- Einband:
- Gebunden
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780226837970
- Artikelnummer:
- 11918603
- Umfang:
- 768 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 454 g
- Maße:
- 229 x 152 mm
- Stärke:
- 48 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 28.3.2025
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
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, prosperity, and rebirth. Hogwash! or so says award-winning novelist and historian Ada Palmer. In Inventing the Renaissance , 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.
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 it 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.
