基思·托马斯爵士（Sir Keith Thomas，1933— ），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》。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，托马斯是仅有的被三位专家推选的史学大家。

Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover stolen goods. At the same time, the Protestant Reformation attempted to take the magic out of religion, and scientists were d...(展开全部)

基思·托马斯爵士（Sir Keith Thomas，1933— ），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》。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，托马斯是仅有的被三位专家推选的史学大家。

作者杰拉德•汉拉第，爱尔兰人，是宗教哲学研究专家，曾任都柏林大学哲学系教授，已退休。除了这本《灵知派与神秘主义》，他还著有《启蒙时代的哲学家：洛克、休谟、贝克莱再审视》（1995）、《巴黎之光：红衣主教勒斯蒂格论信仰与当代文化》（1995）等。

Materializing Magic Power paints a broad picture of the dynamics of popular religion in Taiwan. The first book to explore contemporary Chinese popular religion from its cultural, social, and material perspectives, it analyzes these aspects of religious practice in a unified framework and traces their transformation as adherents move from villages to cities. In this groundbreaki...(展开全部)

How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? What are the means by which we distinguish true from false accounts? Why do we credit one observational statement over another? This study engages these universal questions through a recreation of a crucial period in the history of early modern science: the social world of gentlemen-philosophers in 17th-century England. The au...(展开全部)

史蒂文.夏平,当代著名的英国科学史家和科学知识社会学家,曾长期在爱丁堡大学科学研究部任职,目前为圣地亚哥加州大学社会学和元科学研究教授。

The European Tributary States is the first attempt to give a comprehensive overview of the similarities and differences in the Ottoman Empire's relationship to Moldavia, Wallachia, Transylvania, Ragusa, the Crimean Khanate as well as the Cossack Hetmanate.

With a new introduction by the author (emeritus, sociology, Columbia U., New York City), as well as the prefaces from the first edition in 1938 and a 1970 reprint, this classic work established the field of the sociology of science. The focus of the study is the role of Puritanism in unintentionally providing social and cultural support for newly emerging science in 17th-centur...(展开全部)

Maurice Olender is a Professor of the History of Religions at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where he alos serves as Maitre de Conferences. He is the Editor of the journal Le Genre Humain and Director of the series La Librairie du XXIeme Siecle (Seuil, Paris). Arthur Goldhammer is the celebrated translator who has received, among much praise, the pre...(展开全部)