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Ada Palmer

Historian of the Renaissance and of the history of ideas, and 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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wrote: Inventing the Renaissance

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by: Inventing the Renaissance
mentions: For the Love of Law

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