康斯坦斯·克拉森，康考迪亚大学的研究员，感觉史研究专家，长期专注于感觉史的研究，致力于探索人类感官知觉与文化之间的关系，以及感官经验如何影响了社会和文化的发展等主题。代表作有《感觉的世界 :探索历史与跨文化的感觉》《芳香 :嗅觉文化史》《深层感知 :触摸的文化史》《感知的方式 :理解社会中的感官》，曾担任六卷本《感官文化史》丛书的主编。

【作者】 理查德·G.纽豪瑟（Richard G. Newhauser） 亚利桑那州立大学（Arizona State University）英语与中世纪研究教授，其研究方向是道德传统与感官史。他的著作包括：《贪婪的早期历史》（The Early History of Greed ，2000；再版于2006年）；《罪恶：西欧中世纪道德传统论集》（Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages，2007）；（合编）《中世纪和近代早期文化中的罪恶观》（Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture，2012）等。 【译者】 钱文逸，艺术史学者、译者。早年求学于英国伦敦大学学院，获艺术史与材料研究学士学位（2014年）和艺术史硕士学位（2015年）...(展开全部)

【作者】 理查德·G.纽豪瑟（Richard G. Newhauser） 亚利桑那州立大学（Arizona State University）英语与中世纪研究教授，其研究方向是道德传统与感官史。他的著作包括：《贪婪的早期历史》（The Early History of Greed ，2000；再版于2006年）；《罪恶：西欧中世纪道德传统论集》（Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages，2007）；（合编）《中世纪和近代早期文化中的罪恶观》（Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture，2012）等。 【译者】 钱文逸，艺术史学者、译者。早年求学于英国伦敦大学学院，获艺术史与材料研究学士学位（2014年）和艺术史硕士学位（2015年）...(展开全部)

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008 A Cultural History of Animals in the Medieval Age investigates the changing roles of animals in medieval culture, economy and society in the period 1000 to 1400. The period saw significant changes in scientific and philosophical approaches to animals as well as their representation in art. Animals were omnipresent in medieval everyday l...(展开全部)

The past 20 years have witnessed a turn towards the sensuous, particularly the aural, as a viable space for critical exploration in History and other Humanities disciplines. This has been informed by a heightened awareness of the role that the senses play in shaping modern identity and understanding of place; and increasingly, how the senses are central to the memory of past ex...(展开全部)

The past 20 years have witnessed a turn towards the sensuous, particularly the aural, as a viable space for critical exploration in History and other Humanities disciplines. This has been informed by a heightened awareness of the role that the senses play in shaping modern identity and understanding of place; and increasingly, how the senses are central to the memory of past ex...(展开全部)

Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses and tattoos, sadistic cuisine and the music played by the planet Earth. "Delightful . . . gives the reader the richest possible feeling of the worlds the senses take in."--The New Y...(展开全部)

For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of history, modernity, and globalization. The burden of The Climate of History in a Planetary Age is to grapple with what this means and to confront humanities scholars with ideas they hav...(展开全部)

For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of history, modernity, and globalization. The burden of The Climate of History in a Planetary Age is to grapple with what this means and to confront humanities scholars with ideas they hav...(展开全部)

In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal is a new history of voluntary flagellation in Europe, from its invention in medieval religious devotion to its use in the modern pornographic imagination. Working with a wide range of religious, literary, and medical texts and images, Niklaus Largier explores the emotional and sensual, religious and erotic excitement of the w...(展开全部)