In its original printing, this edition of the Autobiography was greeted in Saturday Review as 'a treasure-house of information on education, monastic life, and the beginnings of the great medieval towns ...also delightful reading with its mingling of scholarship and superstition, its stories of necromancy and devils, its other-worldliness warring with human weakness.' Originall...(展开全部)

This classic collection of essays has already established itself as a rich source of material for students of sixteenth and seventeenth-century France. Natalie Davis focuses on the lower social orders - peasants, artisans, the poor generally - and in a series of brilliantly penetrating cast-studies throws fresh light on some of the great issues of social change: the impact of p...(展开全部)

This classic collection of essays has already established itself as a rich source of material for students of sixteenth and seventeenth-century France. Natalie Davis focuses on the lower social orders - peasants, artisans, the poor generally - and in a series of brilliantly penetrating cast-studies throws fresh light on some of the great issues of social change: the impact of p...(展开全部)

THIS MAJOR STUDY DEVELOPS A NEW ACCOUNT OF MODERNITY AND ITS RELATION TO THE SELF. BUILDING UPON THE IDEAS SET OUT IN THE CONSEQUENCES OF MODERNITY, GIDDENS ARGUES THAT 'HIGH' OR 'LATE' MODERNITY IS A POST TRADITIONAL ORDER CHARACTERISED BY A DEVELOPED INSTITUTIONAL REFLEXIVITY. IN THE CURRENT PERIOD, THE GLOBALISING TENDENCIES OF MODERN INSTITUTIONS ARE ACCOMPANIED BY A TRANSF...(展开全部)

In Classical China, crafted artifacts offered a material substrate for abstract thought as graphic paradigms for social relationships. Focusing on the fifth to second centuries B.C., Martin Powers explores how these paradigms continued to inform social thought long after the material substrate had been abandoned. In this detailed study, the author makes the claim that artifacts...(展开全部)

娜塔莉•泽蒙•戴维斯（Natalie Zemon Davis，1928－），著名历史学家，美国新文化史领军人物，主要研究欧洲近代早期史。先后执教于布朗大学、多伦多大学、伯克利加州大学、普林斯顿大学，曾任美国历史学会主席，现为普林斯顿大学荣休Henry Charles Lea历史学教授，兼任加拿大多伦多大学历史学与中世纪研究教授、比较文学中心高级研究员。著有《法国近代早期的社会与文化》、《马丁•盖伊返乡记》、《档案中的虚构》、《银屏上的奴隶》、《边缘女人》、《16世纪法国的礼物》等。

娜塔莉•泽蒙•戴维斯（Natalie Zemon Davis，1928－），著名历史学家，美国新文化史领军人物，主要研究欧洲近代早期史。先后执教于布朗大学、多伦多大学、伯克利加州大学、普林斯顿大学，曾任美国历史学会主席，现为普林斯顿大学荣休Henry Charles Lea历史学教授，兼任加拿大多伦多大学历史学与中世纪研究教授、比较文学中心高级研究员。著有《法国近代早期的社会与文化》、《马丁•盖伊返乡记》、《档案中的虚构》、《银屏上的奴隶》、《边缘女人》、《16世纪法国的礼物》等。

'The first edition of this book brought difficult questions about selfhood together with equally awkward issues of power and the 'social'. Not since Mead or Goffman, perhaps, had this been attempted in such a useful way, and in such an assured and accessible text. This completely reworked second edition retains all of these virtues, and takes the original analysis into new terr...(展开全部)