The Xi'an Stele, erected in Tang China's capital in 781, describes in both Syriac and Chinese the existence of Christian communities in northern China. While scholars have so far considered the Stele exclusively in relation to the Chinese cultural and historical context, Todd Godwin here demonstrates that it can only be fully understood by reconstructing the complex connections...(展开全部)

美国哥伦比亚大学历史学博士，先后在田纳西大学、斯坦福大学和加州大学伯克利分校任教。研究兴趣为中国9-11世纪的精英社会、晚唐都城，11世纪宋辽边界，死亡与丧葬礼俗等。代表作有：《长城与北宋时期的边界概念》(The Great Wall and Conceptualizations of the Border under the Northern Song)，《大家族、官僚和地方实力派：晚唐中国精英的结构与流动》（Great Clansmen, Bureaucrats, and Local Magnates: The Structure and Circulation of the Elite in Late-Tang China），《宋辽边界的文化扩散与融合》（Cultural Diffusion and Hybridization along th...(展开全部)

The complete disappearance by the tenth century of the medieval Chinese aristocracy, the "great clans" that had dominated China for centuries, has long perplexed historians. In this book, Nicolas Tackett resolves the enigma of their disappearance by using new, digital methodologies to analyze a dazzling array of sources. He systematically exploits the thousands of funerary biog...(展开全部)

Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and his devoted fans are not just philosophers, but readers of political and legal theory, sociology, and literary criticism as well. In March 2009, Agamben was invited to speak in Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral in the presence of the bishop of Paris and a number of...(展开全部)

作者简介 尼古拉斯·莫顿(Nicholas Morton ) 英国诺丁汉特伦特大学艺术与人文学院副教授，其研究重点为 10~14 世纪十字军运动和中世纪近东的历史，并就这些主题发表了大量文章。他最新出版的著作是 7eMongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the他还是劳特里Medieval Near East (Basic Books).奇出版社三套世界史相关丛书的主编之一。 译者简介 谭琦 哈尔滨理工大学语言文学硕士，译有《十字军:一部争夺圣地的史诗》《诅咒之塔》《拜占庭的失落之城》《大围攻:马耳他1565》

姜士彬（David Johnson），加州大学伯克利分校中国研究中心教授，早年专注中古中国士族研究，近年关注明清大众文化研究。

威廉·达尔林普尔(William Dalrymple)，英国历史学家、作家、播音员、评论员，伦敦皇家学会会员，皇家地理学会会员，皇家天文学会会员，斋浦尔文学节联合创始人。著有《仙那度》《精灵之城》《王的归程》等，曾获托马斯·库克旅游文学奖、《星期日泰晤士报》年度英国青年作家奖、海明威奖、卡普钦斯基文学奖、法国星盘图书奖、沃尔夫森历史奖、苏格兰年度图书奖、达夫·库珀纪念奖、亚洲之家亚洲文学奖等诸多奖项。2012年，达尔林普尔担任普林斯顿大学人文学院惠特尼·J.奥茨客座研究员。他与妻子和三个孩子居住在德里城外的农场。

In the spring of A.D. 587, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist embarked on a remarkable expedition across the entire Byzantine world, traveling from the shores of Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. Using Moschos’s writings as his guide and inspiration, the acclaimed travel writer William Dalrymple retraces the footsteps of these two monks, providing along the w...(展开全部)

Forming the Early Chinese Court builds on new directions in comparative studies of royal courts in the ancient world to present a pioneering study of early Chinese court culture. Rejecting divides between literary, political, and administrative texts, Luke Habberstad examines sources from the Qin, Western Han, and Xin periods (221 BCE-23 CE) for insights into court society and ...(展开全部)

From late medieval reenactments of the Deposition from the Cross to Sol Lewitt's Buried Cube, Depositions is about taking down images and about images that anticipate being taken down. Foretelling their own depositions, as well as their re-elevations in contexts far from those in which they were made, the images studied in this book reveal themselves to be untimely--no truer ...(展开全部)