Reinventing the Renaissance (drb.ie)
22 points by Petiver 3 days ago
kjhughes an hour ago
Related: Dwarkesh Patel recently interviewed Ada Palmer:
Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer
throw0101c 28 minutes 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 also 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:
throw0101c 35 minutes ago
While most folks are aware of "the" Renaissance, there were others earlier, e.g.:
skybrian an hour ago
> although there are traces of an earlier edition published by a more popular press
What’s that referring to?
Tuna-Fish 44 minutes 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.
aerodexis 2 hours ago
Given that today there's a concerted effort to effect a similar invention today wrt AI, this book is highly relevant.