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Reinventing the Renaissance

https://drb.ie/article/reinventing-the-renaissance/
20•Petiver•2d ago

Comments

aerodexis•1h ago
Given that today there's a concerted effort to effect a similar invention today wrt AI, this book is highly relevant.
kjhughes•56m ago
Related: Dwarkesh Patel recently interviewed Ada Palmer:

Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAIhVfGbREA

throw0101c•4m ago
Also Tim O'Neill of the History for Atheists weblog/channel:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq1ksVVeRWI

* https://historyforatheists.com/2025/04/interview-dr-ada-palm...

Other interesting interviews: the historicity of Jesus of Nazareth with Bart Ehrman and Thomas Schmidt (using Josephus' Testimonium), the date of Christmas with Philipp Nothaft, 'pagan origins' of Easter with Andrew Henry (Religion for Breakfast channel), Tom Holland. Good weblog posts too.

Also on the Toldinstone channel:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ws87TCojyc

skybrian•28m ago
> although there are traces of an earlier edition published by a more popular press

What’s that referring to?

Tuna-Fish•20m ago
The sentence after it explains. The core of "Reinventing the renaissance" is basically the renaissance-related blog entries from https://www.exurbe.com/ , developed further into a book.
throw0101c•11m ago
While most folks are aware of "the" Renaissance, there were others earlier, e.g.:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_renaissances

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98•Kosturdistan•1h ago•21 comments

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41•ck2•1h ago•18 comments

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31•kioku•3d ago•9 comments

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34•birdculture•57m ago•14 comments

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304•speckx•4d ago•45 comments

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176•mcanouil•4d ago•62 comments

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294•herbertl•18h ago•522 comments

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105•joachimhs•4d ago•30 comments

Reinventing the Renaissance

https://drb.ie/article/reinventing-the-renaissance/
20•Petiver•2d ago•6 comments

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139•skogstokig•4d ago•96 comments

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