Change in human understanding of the natural world during the early modern period marks one of the most important episodes in intellectual history. This era is often referred to as the scientific revolution, but recent scholarship has challenged traditional accounts. Here, in Reconfiguring the World, Margaret J. Osler treats the development of the sciences in Europe from the e...(展开全部)

Change in human understanding of the natural world during the early modern period marks one of the most important episodes in intellectual history. This era is often referred to as the scientific revolution, but recent scholarship has challenged traditional accounts. Here, in Reconfiguring the World, Margaret J. Osler treats the development of the sciences in Europe from the e...(展开全部)

The Early Middle Ages, which marked the end of the Roman Empire and the creation of the kingdoms of Western Europe, was a period central to the formation of modern Europe. This period has often been drawn into a series of discourses that are more concerned with the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries than with the distant past. In The Modern Origins of the Early Mid...(展开全部)

Between 1100 and 1600, the emphasis on reason in the learning and intellectual life of Western Europe became more pervasive and widespread than ever before in the history of human civilization. Of crucial significance was the invention of the university around 1200, within which reason was institutionalized and where it became a deeply embedded, permanent feature of Western tho...(展开全部)

The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. As a result, early medieval history is much more fragmented, and there have been few convincing syntheses of socio-economic change in the post-Roman world since the 1930s. In recent de...(展开全部)

The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. As a result, early medieval history is much more fragmented, and there have been few convincing syntheses of socio-economic change in the post-Roman world since the 1930s. In recent de...(展开全部)

玛里琳·邓恩（Marilyn Dunn），英国格拉斯哥大学历史系高级讲师，研究旨趣涉及死亡、修道等宗教议题，除本书外，还著有《597－700年间盎格鲁－撒克逊人的基督教化——探讨他们的生和死》（The Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons 597-700: Dealing with the Living and the Dead ，Continuum, 2008)。

玛里琳·邓恩（Marilyn Dunn），英国格拉斯哥大学历史系高级讲师，研究旨趣涉及死亡、修道等宗教议题，除本书外，还著有《597－700年间盎格鲁－撒克逊人的基督教化——探讨他们的生和死》（The Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons 597-700: Dealing with the Living and the Dead ，Continuum, 2008)。

伊桑·沙甘是加州大学伯克利分校的历史学教授。著有《适度的规则：暴力、宗教和近代英国的政治限制》（The Rule of Moderation: Violence, Religion, and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England）及《大众政治与英国宗教改革》（Popular Politics and the English Reformation）。

伊桑·沙甘是加州大学伯克利分校的历史学教授。著有《适度的规则：暴力、宗教和近代英国的政治限制》（The Rule of Moderation: Violence, Religion, and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England）及《大众政治与英国宗教改革》（Popular Politics and the English Reformation）。