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)

作者简介： [英]基思·托马斯(Keith Thomas)，英国历史学家，代表作为《16和17世纪英格兰大众信仰研究》和《人类与自然世界》。牛津大学万灵学院的荣誉院士。曾任牛津大学基督圣体学院院长、牛津大学副校长、《牛津国家人物传记大辞典》顾问。1988年因对早期现代英国历史研究的贡献，被女王授予骑士爵位。在知名历史刊物《今日历史》创刊六十周年的历史学家评选上，基思·托马斯是仅有的被三位专家推选的史学大家。 译者简介： 戴雷，英国德蒙福特大学翻译学博士，中国翻译协会专家会员。现为武汉理工大学外国语学院副教授，硕士生导师，主要研究方向为欧美文化与翻译。

What did it mean to be ‘civilized’ in Early Modern England? Keith Thomas's seminal studies Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Ends of Life, explored the beliefs, values and social practices of the years between 1500 and 1800. In Pursuit of Civility continues this quest by examining what the English people thought it meant to be `civilized' an...(展开全部)

What did it mean to be ‘civilized’ in Early Modern England? Keith Thomas's seminal studies Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Ends of Life, explored the beliefs, values and social practices of the years between 1500 and 1800. In Pursuit of Civility continues this quest by examining what the English people thought it meant to be `civilized' an...(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)

作者简介： [英]基思·托马斯(Keith Thomas)，英国历史学家，代表作为《16和17世纪英格兰大众信仰研究》和《人类与自然世界》。牛津大学万灵学院的荣誉院士。曾任牛津大学基督圣体学院院长、牛津大学副校长、《牛津国家人物传记大辞典》顾问。1988年因对早期现代英国历史研究的贡献，被女王授予骑士爵位。在知名历史刊物《今日历史》创刊六十周年的历史学家评选上，基思·托马斯是仅有的被三位专家推选的史学大家。 译者简介： 戴雷，英国德蒙福特大学翻译学博士，中国翻译协会专家会员。现为武汉理工大学外国语学院副教授，硕士生导师，主要研究方向为欧美文化与翻译。

How should we live? That question was no less urgent for English men and women who lived between the early sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries than for this book's readers. Keith Thomas's masterly exploration of the ways in which people sought to lead fulfilling lives in those centuries between the beginning of the Reformation and the heyday of the Enlightenment illuminates...(展开全部)

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practitioners, and a wide array of printed materials. Recipes were tested, assessed, and modified by teams of householders, including masters and servants, husbands and wives, mothers and daughters, and fathers and sons. This mu...(展开全部)

In this magisterial new study, Peter Burke explores the social and cultural history of the languages spoken or written in Europe between the invention of printing and the French Revolution, arguing that, from a linguistic point of view, 1450 to 1789 should be regarded as a distinct period. One major theme of the book is the relation between languages and communities (regions, c...(展开全部)

In this magisterial new study, Peter Burke explores the social and cultural history of the languages spoken or written in Europe between the invention of printing and the French Revolution, arguing that, from a linguistic point of view, 1450 to 1789 should be regarded as a distinct period. One major theme of the book is the relation between languages and communities (regions, c...(展开全部)