{"product_id":"inventing-the-renaissance-by-ada-palmer","title":"Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer","description":"\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":"Book Lovers BD","offers":[{"title":"paperback","offer_id":44577878081578,"sku":null,"price":700.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"hardcover","offer_id":44577878114346,"sku":null,"price":830.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook","offer_id":44577878147114,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/5126\/8394\/files\/712EtWQI6UL._SL1500.jpg?v=1784059205","url":"https:\/\/bookycafebd.shop\/products\/inventing-the-renaissance-by-ada-palmer","provider":"BookYcafe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}