Historians traditionally claim to be myth-breakers, but national history since the nineteenth century shows quite a record in myth-making. This exciting new volume compares how national historians in Europe have handled the opposing pulls of fact and fiction and shows which narrative strategies have contributed to the success of national histories.

A gulf of centuries separates the Byzantine Empire from the academic field of Byzantine studies. This book offers a new approach to the history of Byzantine scholarship, focusing on the attraction that Byzantium held for Early Modern Europeans and challenging the stereotype that they dismissed the Byzantine Empire as an object of contempt. The authors in this book focus on how ...(展开全部)

In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, exciting, and frightening concept, “the world” was transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But how could one envision som...(展开全部)

From the first successful Jesuit mission in 1583 until the disastrous failure of the British trade embassy in 1816, China’s cultural practices transfixed the attention of Western philosophers, theologians, architects, artists, entrepreneurs, and social critics. The direct influences on European culture were many and profound, ranging from Chinese teahouses in European palace ga...(展开全部)

In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, exciting, and frightening concept, “the world” was transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But how could one envision som...(展开全部)

From the first successful Jesuit mission in 1583 until the disastrous failure of the British trade embassy in 1816, China’s cultural practices transfixed the attention of Western philosophers, theologians, architects, artists, entrepreneurs, and social critics. The direct influences on European culture were many and profound, ranging from Chinese teahouses in European palace ga...(展开全部)

What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian's craft, as well as a strong argument for why a historic...(展开全部)

曼利奥·贝洛莫（Manlio Bellomo），意大利法律史学者，意大利卡塔尼亚大学法律史教授。曾在罗马大学跟随弗朗切斯科·卡拉索（Francesco Calasso）学习，在欧洲法律史领域，他撰写了大量的著作和论文。1987年，贝洛莫和斯蒂芬·库特纳（Stephan Kuttner）共同成立了共同法国际学院，并担任该学院的联合院长。 高仰光，中国人民大学法学院法律史教研室副教授，瑞士苏黎世大学法学院访问学者，长期从事欧洲法律史的研究，具体包括古希腊法、罗马法、西欧中世纪城市法与封建法、近代德国法等领域。

曼利奥·贝洛莫（Manlio Bellomo），意大利法律史学者，意大利卡塔尼亚大学法律史教授。曾在罗马大学跟随弗朗切斯科·卡拉索（Francesco Calasso）学习，在欧洲法律史领域，他撰写了大量的著作和论文。1987年，贝洛莫和斯蒂芬·库特纳（Stephan Kuttner）共同成立了共同法国际学院，并担任该学院的联合院长。 高仰光，中国人民大学法学院法律史教研室副教授，瑞士苏黎世大学法学院访问学者，长期从事欧洲法律史的研究，具体包括古希腊法、罗马法、西欧中世纪城市法与封建法、近代德国法等领域。

The concept of cultural history has in the last few decades come to the fore of historical research into early modern Europe. Due in no small part to the pioneering work of Peter Burke, the tools of the cultural historian are now routinely brought to bear on every aspect of history, and have transformed our understanding of the past. First published in 1978, this study examines...(展开全部)