Arguing that historians must write in a comic mode, aware of history's artifice, risks, and incompletion, Caroline Walker Bynum here examines diverse medieval texts to show how women were able to appropriate dominant social symbols in ways that allowed for the emergence of their own creative voices. By arguing for the positive importance attributed to the body, these essays giv...(展开全部)

The Chinese territory is densely meshed with holy sites (mountains, caves, springs...) where the gods manifest themselves and where pilgrims come to meet them. The present volume, the result of a Franco-Japanese conference held in Paris in 2017, includes fifteen chapters in French and English, exploring the conceptions and practices at these holy sites; they build the analysis ...(展开全部)

The Chinese territory is densely meshed with holy sites (mountains, caves, springs...) where the gods manifest themselves and where pilgrims come to meet them. The present volume, the result of a Franco-Japanese conference held in Paris in 2017, includes fifteen chapters in French and English, exploring the conceptions and practices at these holy sites; they build the analysis ...(展开全部)

Product Description An exploration of Chinese thought during a time of monumental change, the period after the fall of the Han dynasty. From the Back Cover Exploring a time of profound change, this book details the intellectual ferment after the fall of the Han dynasty. Questions about "heaven" and the affairs of the world that had seemed resolved by Han Confucianism resurfaced...(展开全部)

柯睿（Paul W. Kroll），美国科罗拉多大学博尔德分校中文教授。1976年获密歇根大学博士学位。师从著名汉学家薛爱华，是当今北美中古文学研究的三大家之一。柯睿教授对中国中古时期文学和文化史有大量精彩的研究，包括六十多篇论文和五本论著以及若干编著。近著如A Student’s Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese。柯睿教授多年来一直担任《美国东方学会杂志》（Journal of the American Oriental Society）和《唐学报》（T’ang Studies）的主编。目前则主编欧洲汉学杂志《通报》（T’oung Pao）。童岭，1981年3月生，江苏镇江人。南京大学文学博士。现为南京大学文学院教授。国家第二批“万人计划”青年拔尖人才。主要研究六朝隋唐时代的学术、思想与文学，...(展开全部)

A fascinating work of detective history, "The Black Death" traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of this infamous outbreak of plague that spread across the continent of Europe from 1347 to 1351. Drawing on sources as diverse as monastic manuscripts and dendrochronological studies (which measure growth rings in trees), historian Robert S. Gottfried demonstrates how a b...(展开全部)

A fascinating work of detective history, "The Black Death" traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of this infamous outbreak of plague that spread across the continent of Europe from 1347 to 1351. Drawing on sources as diverse as monastic manuscripts and dendrochronological studies (which measure growth rings in trees), historian Robert S. Gottfried demonstrates how a b...(展开全部)