By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 25/04/2026Though Palmer unpacks this exercise and its meaning and results in the final part of her *magnum opus*, this message about forces and people is really the key to her historiography. 19/ 150 0
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 25/04/2026She develops these themes in the most charming, accessible manner, weaving her own journey into history with her accounts of how different eras consciously created and deployed the *idea* of "Renaissance" and how these ideas were bolstered, undermined, or ultimately demolished by new evidence. 20/ 180 0
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 25/04/2026You could not ask for a better account of why there is not, and can never be, a single, canonical "history" of an era or a moment. 21/ 160 0
