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。

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。

Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me is a riveting novel of infidelity and a man trapped by a terrible secret. Marta has only just met Victor when she invites him to dinner at her Madrid apartment while her husband is away on business. When her two-year-old son finally falls asleep, Marta and Victor retreat to the bedroom. Undressing, she feels suddenly ill; and in his arms, ine...(展开全部)

"No one ever suspects, " begins Tomorrow in the Battle Think On Me, "that they might one day find themselves with a dead woman in their arms...."Marta has just met Victor when she invites him to dinner at her Madrid apartment while her husband is away on business. When her two-year-old son finally falls asleep, Marta and Victor retreat to the bedroom. Undressing, she feels sudd...(展开全部)

"Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me" is a gripping and moving meditation on the hold that the dead have over the living, by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel "The Infatuations" is published in 2013. Victor, a ghostwriter, is just about to have an affair with Marta, a married woman, when - in the bedroom, half-undressed - she drops dead in his arms. He panics and...(展开全部)

Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me is a riveting novel of infidelity and a man trapped by a terrible secret. Marta has only just met Victor when she invites him to dinner at her Madrid apartment while her husband is away on business. When her two-year-old son finally falls asleep, Marta and Victor retreat to the bedroom. Undressing, she feels suddenly ill; and in his arms, ine...(展开全部)