De Architectura, the ten books by the Roman architect Vitruvius, survives as the only complete architectural treatise from antiquity. Its influence from the early Renaissance on was enormous, and many architects and theorists in Renaissance Italy, following Vitruvius's example, attempted to codify architectural practice and theory by writing their own treatises. In this importa...(展开全部)

The introduction of paper is one of the major innovations of Early Modern architecture, and it had profound effects on its design processes. Wider use of paper changed representational conventions, while communication networks were affected by the many implications of portability and reproducibility: circulation of models for study and design increased, and new possibilities of...(展开全部)

'This brilliant, stimulating study in the history of ideas should become indispensible for Renaissance art historians, and for philosophers interested in the history of the philosophy of mind and in what might be called the 'pre-history' of aesthetics.' Choice 'ith the rise of naturalism in the art of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance there developed an extensive and div...(展开全部)

A thought-provoking history of papyrus paper―from its origins in Egypt to its spread throughout the world―revealing how it helped usher in a new era of human history. For our entire history, humans have always searched for new ways to share information. This innate compulsion led to the origin of writing on the rock walls of caves and coffin lids or carving on tablets. But it w...(展开全部)

A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons the princely rulers of Italy's dynastic states and their families. From the late Middle Ages, the independent Italian city-states were taken over by powerful families who installed themselves as dynastic rulers. Inspired by the humanists, the princes of fift...(展开全部)

查尔斯·霍默·哈斯金斯(Charles Homer Haskins)，美国历史学家，中世纪史权威。1870年生，幼年即开始学习拉丁文和希腊文。16岁毕业于约翰·霍普金斯大学，后来到巴黎和柏林学习。不到20岁就获得了博士学位，并开始在约翰·霍普金斯大学任教。1892到1902年转到威斯康星大学讲授欧洲史。1902年应聘到哈佛大学，直到1931年因身体状况退休。1937年逝世。在长期的哈佛岁月中，他成为该大学、乃至美国史学界最著名的人物之一。主要著作有：《欧洲历史上的诺曼人》(1915年)、《诺曼社会制度》(1918年)、《大学的兴起》(1923年)、《中世纪科学史研究》(1924年)、《12世纪文艺复兴》(1927年)、《中世纪文化研究》(1929年)。

Michael Young has christened the oligarchy of the future “Meritocracy.” Indeed, the word is now part of the English language. It would appear that the formula: IQ+Effort=Merit may well constitute the basic belief of the ruling class in the twenty-first century. Projecting himself into the year 2034, the author of this sociological satire shows how present decisions and practice...(展开全部)

This is the only text in English that details, step-by-step, the Beaux-Arts system of architectural education. With the reissue of this long-out-of-print book, the student or practitioner of classical design can reconstruct the course of study used to train every architect in America until the late 1940s, from the making of the initial sketch to the rendering of the project for...(展开全部)