Related: Dwarkesh Patel recently interviewed Ada Palmer:

Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAIhVfGbREA

• throw0101c

  today at 5:24 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:

  * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ws87TCojyc

While most folks are aware of "the" Renaissance, there were others earlier, e.g.:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_renaissances

> although there are traces of an earlier edition published by a more popular press

What’s that referring to?

• Tuna-Fish

  today at 5:08 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.

  • skybrian

    today at 6:01 PM

    I know that, but a blog isn't normally referred to as a "more popular press" so it doesn't fit.

Given that today there's a concerted effort to effect a similar invention today wrt AI, this book is highly relevant.