The Invention of You: How the Renaissance Discovered the Self
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This episode explores how the Renaissance led to the discovery of the self and the concept of the interior life.
📬 Free newsletter (Tudor news, vocab, treasures, behind the scenes): https://englandcast.com/newsletter-sign-up We talk about the Renaissance as the time people rediscovered the ancient world. But they were also discovering themselves, for the first time. For most of human history, nobody really knew what they looked like. Then a mirror, a chimney, a printing press, and a blank book arrived within about 150 years of each other, and together they invented something brand new: the interior life. The private self. In this episode: Venetian glass mirrors that once cost as much as a naval ship, the rise of private heated rooms, the explosion of diary keeping, and why Hamlet might be the most "online" character in literary history. 🔔 Subscribe for more Tudor and medieval history Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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