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Book Review: Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer

Inventing the Renaissance

I think Palmer’s Inventing the Renaissance justifies its size and then some. 

And for the genre reader, this is a chonky, valuable book for showing that the past is a different country…and yet the people in it are awfully human. One can get a real appreciation for authors like Jo Graham and Guy Gavriel Kay by reading the full-on history that Palmer provides here…