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The golden-Renaissance myth damages our understanding of the Renaissance itself as badly as it damages our understanding of the Middle Ages.
Drawn from what Ada Palmer said
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What Ada Palmer actually said
- Ada Palmer Historian of the Renaissance and of the history of ideas
while the myth of the golden Renaissance does terrible damage to how we understand the Middle Ages, it does just as much damage to how we understand the Renaissance.
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