Ada Palmer
Historian of the Renaissance and of the history of ideas, and a novelist.
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Identity, historical research interests and work as a novelist.
- University of Chicago — Ada Palmer
Identity, historical research interests and work as a novelist.
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Works on the Renaissance, censorship, and the transmission of classical texts. Her account of the period as invented in retrospect, and of its participants as frightened rather than confident, is the reading For the Love of Law adopts for its closing argument.
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- For the Love of Law
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