Inventing the Renaissance the myth of a golden age
"In this new book, the award-winning novelist and renowned historian Ada Palmer seeks to dismantle the myth of the Renaissance as a 'golden age' compared to the plague- and war-ridden Middle Ages. For those who inhabited what we now think of as the Renaissance, Palmer argues, it was 'a darker, grimm...
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2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: The Great and Terrible Renaissance
- Machiavelli the Patriot : SPQF
- Part I. Why You Shouldn't Believe Anyone (Including Me) About the Renaissance. Everybody Wants to Claim a Golden Age ; The Flexible X-Factor of the Renaissance ; Time for a Tangent About Vikings! (It's Relevant, I Swear. . .) ; The Quest for the Renaissance X-Factor Begins ; Super Sexy Secular Humanism ; A New X-Factor : The Baron Thesis and Proto-Democracy ; Another X-Factor : Enter Economists! ; Florence : A Self-Fulfilling Source Base ; What Makes People Start to Study the Renaissance ; Lorenzo de Medici : Hero or Villain? ; Or Were We Brought Here by Romance? ; The Invention of the Middle Ages ; The Un-Modern Renaissance ; Why Did Ada Palmer Start Studying the Renaissance?
- Part II. Desperate Times and Desperate Measures. Desperate Times ; Cruel Wars for Light Causes ; A Strange Peace, A Stranger War ; Rome : The Eternal Problem City ; Medieval but Ever-So-Much-More-So ; The Desperate Measure : Reviving Antiquity ; Intermission: Are You Remembering Not to Believe Me? ; Antiquity Was Not New Either ; The Umanista's Rival : Scholasticism ; Studia Humanitatis - The Words That Sting and Bite ; Italian Renaissance Becomes European Renaissance ; The Supremacy of Antiquity ; Is This About Virtue or Power? - Part III. Let's Meet Some People from This Golden Age. Patrons and Clients All the Way Up ; Our Friends So Far ; Alessandra Strozzi : Labors of Exile ; Manetto Amanatini : There Is a World Elsewhere ; Francesco Filelfo : Between Republics and Monarchies ; Montesecco : An Assassin Fears for His Soul ; Ippolita Maria Visconti Sforza : The Princess and the Peace ; Josquin des Prez : The International Renaissance ; Angelo Poliziano : Patronage Repays ; Savonarola : Saint or Demon? ; Alessandra Scala : The Girl of Our Dreams ; Raffaello Maffei il Volterrano : A Scholar Fears for His Soul Too ; Lucrezia Borgia : Princess of Nowhere ; Camilla Bartolini Rucellai : Spirit of the Last Republic ; Michelangelo : The Great and Terrible ; Interlude: Let's Ground Ourselves in Time ; Julia the Sibyl : A Prophetess in an Age of Science ; Our Friend Machiavelli
- Part IV. What Was Renaissance Humanism? What Was Behind the Curtain? Garin vs. Kristeller ; Who Gets to Count as a Renaissance Humanist? ; Back to Our X-Factors ; Once Upon a Time at Vergil's House ... ; Follow the Money! ; It's Getting Weird in Florence ; Scraps of Philosophia ; Was There Renaissance Secular Humanism? ; How (Not) to Dodge the Renaissance Inquisition ; Why We Care Whether Machiavelli Was an Atheist ; Was Machiavelli a Humanist? Part 1 ; Virtue Politics ; Was Machiavelli a Humanist? Part 2
- Part V. The Try Everything Age. An Exponential Information Revolution ; We Can't just Abelard Harder Anymore ; The Presumptive Authority of the Past ; The New Philosophy ; A Brief History of Progress ; Progresses
- Part VI. Conclusion: Who has the power in history? Great Forces History vs. Individual Choice History ; The Papal Election of 2016 ; Which Horseman of the Apocalypse? ; What Did the Black Death Really Cause?
