By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 25/04/2026But I've been reading it for the past two months or so, and I think I've pitched it about a hundred times to strangers and friends as I savored it, because it's *just that good*. 7/ 170
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 25/04/2026*Inventing the Renaissance* isn't a work of history, it's a work of "historiography" - the study of how histories get written and rewritten. 8/ 1110
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 25/04/2026Palmer's point here isn't to make us merely understand the Renaissance - she wants us to understand how the *idea* of a Renaissance, a rebirth out of a "dark age" into a "golden age" - has been used, abused, created and demolished, for centuries and centuries. 9/ 2141
