The Holy Roman Empire lasted a thousand years, far longer than ancient Rome. Yet this formidable dominion never inspired the awe of its predecessor. Voltaire distilled the disdain of generations when he quipped it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. Yet as Peter Wilson shows, the Holy Roman Empire tells a millennial story of Europe better than the histories of individual na...(展开全部)

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 'Hugely impressive... Wilson is an assured guide through the millennium-long labyrinth of papal-imperial relations' Literary Review A great, sprawling, ancient and unique entity, the Holy Roman Empire, from its founding by Charlemagne to its destruction by Napoleon a millennium later, formed the heart of Europe. It was a gre...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·布赖斯（1838-1922），出生于北爱尔兰，是一位学识博洽，见解深邃的历史学家，同时还是一位政治理论家和政治活动家。除出版《神圣罗马帝国》一书奠定其学术地位，为其树立了历史家的地位以外，他发表的《美利坚共和国》也极负盛名，被视为外国人论述美国的经典著作之一。此外，所著《现代民主制度》也使作者享有盛誉。

A major new history of the eastern Roman Empire, from Constantine to 1453. In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of i...(展开全部)

J. B. 伯里（John Bagnell Bury，1861—1927），英国著名历史学家、古典学家和文献学家。学问渊博，著述等身，曾计划并参与《剑桥古代史》《剑桥中世纪史》《剑桥近代史》等书之编辑。1902年获任剑桥大学钦定近代史讲座教授。研究涉足古希腊史、古罗马史、19世纪教皇史、西方思想史等多个领域的研究，尤以晚期罗马帝国史和拜占庭史见长。其著作的范围从古代希腊史一直到19世纪的教会史。其代表作有《晚期罗马帝国：从阿卡狄乌斯到爱里尼》（A History of the Later Roman Empire: From Arcadius to Irene，1889年）、《希腊史：至亚历山大大帝去世》（A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great，1900年）、《东罗马帝国史：从爱...(展开全部)

作者简介： 约阿希姆·惠利（Joachim Whaley），剑桥大学德国历史与思想教授，冈维尔和凯斯学院研究员。主要教授1500年以来的德国历史和文化以及当代德国政治。著有《1529—1819年汉堡的宗教宽容和社会变革》（1985）《1493—1806年的德意志与神圣罗马帝国》（2012），并以英德双语发表过多篇论文。1984年成为皇家历史学会会员，2015年被选为英国国家学术院院士。 序言作者简介： 王涛，南京大学历史学院教授、副院长、博士生导师，主要研究领域涉及教会史、德国史、数字史学等方向。主讲数字工具与世界史研究、德国史、基督教文明史、影像中的世界史等课程，曾获南京大学青年教师人文科研原创奖、第二届日知世界史奖青年奖等奖项。著有《主教的书信空间》，译作《喧嚣时代：20世纪全球史》。

The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors Rome called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling an Empire that had dominated their lives for so long. A leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the ...(展开全部)

The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors Rome called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling an Empire that had dominated their lives for so long. A leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the ...(展开全部)

This definitive history of Ukraine is “an exemplary account of Europe’s least-known large country.” (Wall Street Journal) As Ukraine is embroiled in an ongoing struggle with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence, celebrated historian Serhii Plokhy explains that today’s crisis is a case of history repeating itself: the Ukrainian conflict is only...(展开全部)

谢尔希•浦洛基（Serhii Plokhy） 哈佛大学乌克兰史教授、哈佛乌克兰研究院院长，生于俄罗斯，成长于乌克兰，专攻东欧思想、文化、国际关系史，著有《雅尔塔：改变世界格局的八天》《大国的崩溃：苏联解体的台前幕后》《切尔诺贝利：一场核灾难的历史》等十余部专著，所获众多奖项包括美国乌克兰研究学会著作奖、表彰俄罗斯思想文化史佳作的新历史奖，以及非虚构类两大标杆奖项莱昂内尔•盖尔伯奖与贝利•吉福德奖。