Ada Palmer is discussing Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age. She will be joined in conversation by Gary K. Wolfe. A Q&A and signing will follow the […]
Ada Palmer is the moderator for the Chicago Abundance book tour with Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. Their latest book, Abundance, asks us to rethink big problems that seem mired […]
Ada Palmer is discussing Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age. She will be joined in conversation with author Mary Anne Mohanraj. The event will be at Volumes […]
"Warm, generous, and inviting," Inventing the Renaissance provides a witty and irreverent journey through the fantasies historians have constructed about the supposed Dark Ages and golden Renaissance, and exposes the terrible yet often tender reality beneath.