读一读 Ada Palmer 的《Inventing The Renaissance》挺好的，因为不管文艺复兴到底是个啥（Palmer 认为它包含很多不同的东西），你都得先搞懂中世纪，毕竟文艺复兴始于中世纪的余波……
It's good to read Ada Palmer's Inventing The Renaissance, because understanding whatever the Renaissance is (and Palmer says it is many different things), you need to understand the Middle Ages, since the Renaissance started with the fallout of Middle-Ages…
请允许我小小推荐一部“最佳相关作品”：Ada Palmer 的《Inventing the Renaissance》。这是一部极为出色的复杂历史力作，运用了科幻和奇幻的写作手法来讲述。但它骨子里依然是一部高水准的学术著作：这些手法被用来抽丝剥茧地讲述一个同性恋……
Allow me to make a small recommendation for the "best related work": Ada Palmer's 'Inventing the Renaissance.' It's a fantastic work of complex history, told with the tools of science fiction and fantasy writing. But it remains a high quality academic work: the tools are used to unravel the telling of a gay…
……有赞助人罩着。这些受赞助的人里，有些可能上周刚杀了人，而得到的惩罚不过是陪神父呆一段时间忏悔救赎灵魂，再无其他惩罚。出处：Ada Palmer 的《Inventing the Renaissance》
…with a patron. Some of these patron’d folk might have killed somebody last week for which they get to spent time with a priest working on the salvation of their soul and no further punishment. Source: Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer
Ada Palmer 写的《Inventing the Renaissance》[1]。我向来不太擅长把书读完（甚至不擅长开始），而这本又是个大部头。我对中世纪或文艺复兴历史也从来不感冒，对我来说那完全是个认知黑洞……
Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer [1]. I don't tend to be great at finishing (or starting) books, and this is a big one. I've also never had any interest in Medieval or Renaissance history, for me it's been a black hole…
读一读 Ada Palmer 的《Inventing The Renaissance》挺好的，因为不管文艺复兴到底是个啥（Palmer 认为它包含很多不同的东西），你都得先搞懂中世纪，毕竟文艺复兴始于中世纪的余波……
It's good to read Ada Palmer's Inventing The Renaissance, because understanding whatever the Renaissance is (and Palmer says it is many different things), you need to understand the Middle Ages, since the Renaissance started with the fallout of Middle-Ages…
请允许我小小推荐一部“最佳相关作品”：Ada Palmer 的《Inventing the Renaissance》。这是一部极为出色的复杂历史力作，运用了科幻和奇幻的写作手法来讲述。但它骨子里依然是一部高水准的学术著作：这些手法被用来抽丝剥茧地讲述一个同性恋……
Allow me to make a small recommendation for the "best related work": Ada Palmer's 'Inventing the Renaissance.' It's a fantastic work of complex history, told with the tools of science fiction and fantasy writing. But it remains a high quality academic work: the tools are used to unravel the telling of a gay…
……有赞助人罩着。这些受赞助的人里，有些可能上周刚杀了人，而得到的惩罚不过是陪神父呆一段时间忏悔救赎灵魂，再无其他惩罚。出处：Ada Palmer 的《Inventing the Renaissance》
…with a patron. Some of these patron’d folk might have killed somebody last week for which they get to spent time with a priest working on the salvation of their soul and no further punishment. Source: Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer
Ada Palmer 写的《Inventing the Renaissance》[1]。我向来不太擅长把书读完（甚至不擅长开始），而这本又是个大部头。我对中世纪或文艺复兴历史也从来不感冒，对我来说那完全是个认知黑洞……
Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer [1]. I don't tend to be great at finishing (or starting) books, and this is a big one. I've also never had any interest in Medieval or Renaissance history, for me it's been a black hole…