The Big Idea: Ada Palmer

The Big Idea: Ada Palmer

Author and historian Ada Palmer was asked a seemingly simple question and, of course, not only was the answer to the question more complicated than it seemed, but the question itself was more than a little suspect. Palmer is here to explain why in this Big Idea for Inventing the Renaissance. ADA PALMER: Inventing the Renaissance began that grew into a book, trying to answer the terrible question that I and all my Renaissance studies friends got …