6/16/2026 at 10:26:12 PM
by Petiver
6/19/2026 at 5:17:23 PM
While most folks are aware of "the" Renaissance, there were others earlier, e.g.:by throw0101c
6/19/2026 at 10:38:29 PM
It’s incredible how much higher quality Carolingian art is compared to the drawings that medieval art is usually associated with.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolingian_art#/media/File:Ka...
by david_shi
6/19/2026 at 4:32:00 PM
Related: Dwarkesh Patel recently interviewed Ada Palmer:Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer
by kjhughes
6/19/2026 at 5:24:23 PM
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:
by throw0101c
6/19/2026 at 7:15:41 PM
Thanks for the links. I'd seen her before and liked what she had to say, and just subscribed.As an ADHD nerd I find myself with "so much to see, so little time to do it", and a fair chunk of that time is learning about religion -- a subject I am not at all a fan of. But I feel compelled to better understand it because the world is filled with people who are effectively insane in their worldview and they want to impose that worldview on me.
by pstuart
6/19/2026 at 10:57:36 PM
I consider myself an "intelligent general reader" and read this last month, producing my own much briefer review [0]. Such a good book! I read a lot of popular history, but not usually written by actual practicing historians (who usually probably don't write "popular history"). Good stuff, and highly recommended.[0] https://www.the-recliner.com/the-sixteenth-book-of-2026-inve...
by themadturk
6/19/2026 at 9:15:08 PM
This is an excellent, delightful book filled with facts, opinions, humor and a level of expertise and diligence that in my opinion redefines how history should be written. This is one of my favorite history books--and I've read dozens.by jschveibinz
6/19/2026 at 3:48:19 PM
Given that today there's a concerted effort to effect a similar invention today wrt AI, this book is highly relevant.by aerodexis
6/19/2026 at 4:59:51 PM
> although there are traces of an earlier edition published by a more popular pressWhat’s that referring to?
by skybrian
6/19/2026 at 5:08:09 PM
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.by Tuna-Fish
6/19/2026 at 6:01:04 PM
I know that, but a blog isn't normally referred to as a "more popular press" so it doesn't fit.by skybrian
