While most folks are aware of "the" Renaissance, there were others earlier, e.g.:<p>* <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_renaissances" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_renaissances</a>
Related: Dwarkesh Patel recently interviewed Ada Palmer:<p><i>Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer</i><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAIhVfGbREA" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAIhVfGbREA</a>
Also Tim O'Neill of the <i>History for Atheists</i> weblog/channel:<p>* <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq1ksVVeRWI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq1ksVVeRWI</a><p>* <a href="https://historyforatheists.com/2025/04/interview-dr-ada-palmer-on-myths-of-the-renaissance/" rel="nofollow">https://historyforatheists.com/2025/04/interview-dr-ada-palm...</a><p>Other interesting interviews: the historicity of Jesus of Nazareth with Bart Ehrman and Thomas Schmidt (using Josephus' Testimonium), the date of Christmas with Philipp Nothaft, 'pagan origins' of Easter with Andrew Henry (<i>Religion for Breakfast</i> channel), Tom Holland. Good weblog posts too.<p>Also on the <i>Toldinstone</i> channel:<p>* <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ws87TCojyc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ws87TCojyc</a>
> although there are traces of an earlier edition published by a more popular press<p>What’s that referring to?
Given that today there's a concerted effort to effect a similar invention today wrt AI, this book is highly relevant.