With a lucid and clear narrative style William Chester Jordan has turned his considerable talents to composing a standard textbook of the opening centuries of the second millennium in Europe. He brings this period of dramatic social, political, economic, cultural, religious and military change, alive to the general reader. Jordan presents the early Medieval period as a lost wor...(展开全部)

雅克·勒戈夫（Jacques Le Goff, 1924- ），法国著名史学家，著述宏富，是“新史学派”在欧洲的代表，现任巴黎高等社会科学院（Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales）院长。

The Autumn of the Middle Ages is Johan Huizinga’s classic portrait of life, thought, and art in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century France and the Netherlands. Few who have read this book in English realize that The Waning of the Middle Ages, the only previous translation, is vastly different from the original Dutch, and incompatible will all other European-language translations....(展开全部)

儒勒·米什莱（Jules Michelet，1798—1874）:法国19世纪著名历史学家，在近代历史研究领域中成绩卓越，被学术界称为“法国最早和最伟大的民族主义和浪漫主义历史学家”。曾陆续任职巴黎高等师范学院哲学与历史学教授、历史档案部主任、法兰西学院历史与伦理学教授。他主张“完整地复活过去”，其写作历史的目的，是以重建过去来显示公义，并期待改造社会，被视为年鉴派史学的鼻祖。米什莱著作等身，除了《法国简史》、《罗马共和国史》、《法国史》、《法国革命史》、《女巫》等史学巨著外，还创作了包括《鸟》、《虫》、《海》、《山》、《爱》、《人民》等一系列的散文作品。

R.W.Southern presents an absorbing study of the main personalities and influences that molded the history of Western Europe from the late tenth to the early thirteenth centuries - the formative period of modern Western civilization.He describes the chief forms of social,political,and riligious organization,analyzing a wealth of concrete,highly significant episodes.Like no other...(展开全部)

The Autumn of the Middle Ages is Johan Huizinga’s classic portrait of life, thought, and art in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century France and the Netherlands. Few who have read this book in English realize that The Waning of the Middle Ages, the only previous translation, is vastly different from the original Dutch, and incompatible will all other European-language translations....(展开全部)

R.W.Southern presents an absorbing study of the main personalities and influences that molded the history of Western Europe from the late tenth to the early thirteenth centuries - the formative period of modern Western civilization.He describes the chief forms of social,political,and riligious organization,analyzing a wealth of concrete,highly significant episodes.Like no other...(展开全部)

In The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, Geraldine Heng questions the common assumption that the concepts of race and racisms only began in the modern era. Examining Europe's encounters with Jews, Muslims, Africans, Native Americans, Mongols, and the Romani ('Gypsies'), from the 12th through 15th centuries, she shows how racial thinking, racial law, racial practice...(展开全部)

Weber himself characterized his first book-translated here in its first, complete English edition-as a study in the "formation of commercial law." Weber's argument centers on the legal characteristics of medieval enterprises as a historical precursor to modern forms of commercial enterprises. Weber emphasizes dimensions of medieval law and practices that are at the root of toda...(展开全部)