{"product_id":"inventing-the-renaissance-myths-of-a-golden-age","title":"Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBest Book of 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAn irreverent new take on the Renaissance, which reveals it as anything but Europe’s golden age.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eInventing the Renaissance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePalmer’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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mahala Independent Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62777424150858,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0760\/5662\/5482\/files\/81Fx-zx0-JL._SL1500.jpg?v=1784625107","url":"https:\/\/mahala.bg\/en\/products\/inventing-the-renaissance-myths-of-a-golden-age","provider":"Mahala Independent Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}