Victoria Moul's groundbreaking study uncovers one of the most important features of early modern English poetry: its bilingualism. The first guide to a forgotten literary landscape, this book considers the vast quantities of poetry that were written and read in both Latin and English from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Introducing readers to a host of new authors and ...(展开全部)

By expanding the geographical scope of the history of violence and war, this volume challenges both Western and state-centric narratives of the decline of violence and its relationship to modernity. It highlights instead similarities across early modernity in terms of representations, legitimations, applications of, and motivations for violence. It seeks to integrate methodolog...(展开全部)

A new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided for.

The concept of cultural history has in the last few decades come to the fore of historical research into early modern Europe. Due in no small part to the pioneering work of Peter Burke, the tools of the cultural historian are now routinely brought to bear on every aspect of history, and have transformed our understanding of the past. First published in 1978, this study examines...(展开全部)

彼得·伯克（Peter Burke），英国历史学家。1937年生，现为剑桥大学文化史教授和伊曼纽尔学院研究员。伯克毕业于牛津大学，获圣约翰学院学士学位和圣安东尼学院硕士学位。一度任苏塞克斯大学高级讲师。1970年转入剑桥大学执教。伯克的研究专长在欧洲近代早期的社会史、思想史和文化史，主要著作包括《文艺复兴时代的历史观》（1970年）、《文艺复兴时代意大利的文化与社会：1420－1540年》（1972年）、《文艺复兴时代意大利的传统和创新：一种社会学的研究方法》（1974年）、《威尼斯和阿姆斯特丹：17世纪上层社会研究》（1974）、《欧洲近代早期的大众文化》（1978年）、《社会学和历史学》（1980年）、《蒙泰涅》（1981年）、《维科》（1985年）、《法国的史学革命：年鉴学派1929－1989年》（1990年）、《制作路易十四》（1992年）、...(展开全部)

Three Crises in Early English History gives a clear, concise, and up-to-date account of the three crises in early English history beginning with the Norman Conquest which began with the battle of Hastings and ended in William the Conqueror's Suppression of the Yorkshire rebels in 1071. There is a detailed account of the positive and negative effects of the Conquest on English g...(展开全部)

Three Crises in Early English History gives a clear, concise, and up-to-date account of the three crises in early English history beginning with the Norman Conquest which began with the battle of Hastings and ended in William the Conqueror's Suppression of the Yorkshire rebels in 1071. There is a detailed account of the positive and negative effects of the Conquest on English g...(展开全部)

Why is our sense of smell so under-appreciated? We tend to think of smell as a vestigial remnant of our pre-human past, doomed to gradual extinction, and we go to great lengths to eliminate smells from our environment, suppressing body odour, bad breath and other smells. Living in a relatively odour-free environment has numbed us to the importance that smells have always had in...(展开全部)

Why is our sense of smell so under-appreciated? We tend to think of smell as a vestigial remnant of our pre-human past, doomed to gradual extinction, and we go to great lengths to eliminate smells from our environment, suppressing body odour, bad breath and other smells. Living in a relatively odour-free environment has numbed us to the importance that smells have always had in...(展开全部)

The renowned historian Keith Thomas has written a peerless study of the place of civility in the shaping of English society between the early sixteenth and the late eighteenth centuries. Dramatic changes in court fashion and manners took place, but equally important was the emergence of an urban trading and manufacturing class with new values and standards of behavior. Traditio...(展开全部)