Post #1800500
2026-04-18 05:24 UTC
@Merovius I found Be Like the Fox to put forward a reasonable position.
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@Merovius@chaos.social 2026-04-18 05:47
@kortschak Hm it's in my search history, so someone (maybe you?) apparently already mentioned it. Searching Inventing the Renaissance (my "context"), Palmer does cite it critically in the "Why you shouldn't believe anybody (including me) about the Renaissance". 🤷 I'm not a historian and TBQH I don't care enough to actually spend much time on this. But most of all, I just didn't find the book all that "evil". Pragmatic, yes and outdated. But overall, his advice seemed fairly even handed.