"This is cultural history of the first order, and it is liberal and humane history at its very best."—David Cannadine An essential work for anyone who wishes to understand the social history of the nineteenth century, Schnitzler's Century is the culmination of Peter Gay's thirty-five years of scholarship on bourgeois culture and society. Using Arthur Schnitzler, the sexually em...(展开全部)

"This is cultural history of the first order, and it is liberal and humane history at its very best."—David Cannadine An essential work for anyone who wishes to understand the social history of the nineteenth century, Schnitzler's Century is the culmination of Peter Gay's thirty-five years of scholarship on bourgeois culture and society. Using Arthur Schnitzler, the sexually em...(展开全部)

R.W.Southern presents an absorbing study of the main personalities and influences that molded the history of Western Europe from the late tenth to the early thirteenth centuries - the formative period of modern Western civilization.He describes the chief forms of social,political,and riligious organization,analyzing a wealth of concrete,highly significant episodes.Like no other...(展开全部)

R.W.Southern presents an absorbing study of the main personalities and influences that molded the history of Western Europe from the late tenth to the early thirteenth centuries - the formative period of modern Western civilization.He describes the chief forms of social,political,and riligious organization,analyzing a wealth of concrete,highly significant episodes.Like no other...(展开全部)

The subject of this book is the formation of Western Europe from the late 10th to the early 13th century. During these years the economic face of Europe and its position in the world were transformed. Civilization, as we understand it today, was born. Although the period witnessed great historical events, such as the capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in 1099 and of Constant...(展开全部)