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Join us as we welcome U Chicago history professor and author Ada Palmer to discuss her new book, Inventing the Renaissance.Join us as we welcome Ada Palmer back to Volumes to discuss her new book, Inventing the Renaissance. Many of you may know Palmer for her genre bending Terra Ignota SFF series, but here she shines with an in depth look at what we get wrong about the Renaissance. She will be joined in conversation with author Mary Anne Mohanraj.
Author & historian Ada Palmer studies radical thought & censorship. Known for her hopepunk series Terra Ignota (vol 1 Too Like the Lightning ) and her a cappella song cycle Sundown: Whispers of Ragnarok . Her most recent book is pop history Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age which uses Machiavelli to look at the origins of the myth of a bad Middle Ages & good Renaissance, written in the playful style of her blog Ex Urbe. Her next novel series is the Norse myth duology Hearthfire Saga , focused on the relationship between Loki & Odin; vol 1 coming from Tor Books 2026.
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