Is there a tl;dr? I honestly tried to go through this but didn't manage due to time. Truly interested in learning what's the essense and I will revisit another

Is there a tl;dr? I honestly tried to go through this but didn't manage due to time. Truly interested in learning what's the essense and I will revisit another time Edit: I saw the author has put this outline - Renaissance Life was Worse than the Middle Ages (super-compressed version) - Were did the myth come from in the first place? (a Renaissance story) - Why is the myth of a golden Renaissance retold so much? (a post-Renaissance story) - Conclusion: We Should Aim for Something Better than the Renaissance