Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Ag Kate Taylor all in one place

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Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Ag Kate Taylor all in one placeAn 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