Inventing the Renaissance - Myths of a Golden Age - Ada Palmer

Category: History
Language: English
Keywords: Art Europe humanism Humor Italy Machiavelli Renaissance

Written by Ada Palmer
Read by Candida Gubbins
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

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.

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.

Apollo, February 2025
(30 hours and 19 minutes) !