Johanna’s Reviews > Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age > Status Update

Her German pronunciation isn’t horrible but the British accent is definitely there and it throws me off

“Many textbooks give the impression that Europe always saw itself as superior” oof I’m going to have to agree with that 😬 just bc they knew other places were wealthier does not negate that I fear

Way too optimistic about the whole “the plague will make us value humanity and life more and we won’t go to war as much.” Europeans didn’t stop endlessly killing each other until like less than a century ago. Going to war with each other all the time is literally just what they did for the vast majority of their history

Crazy that these guys hate each other but they’re both annoying lol

I do this scholasticism is important but it’s so irritating 🤮🤮

It’s so crazy how the Italians only stopped trying to kill each other very very recently

“Where the Medici tyrants or-“ Yea kinda but like they still call him Lorenzo the Magnificent for a reason so let’s calm down

Also I read Hollingsworth’s book mentioned and she was not neutral 😬 like I know that part was specifically about Cosimo but that lady acted like she has personal beef with LtM which was really weird 😅