This entertaining and learned volume contains book reviews, lectures, and hard to find articles from the late C. S. Lewis, whose constant aim was to show the twentieth century reader how to read and how to understand old books and manuscripts.

Oscar Wilde called this collection of essays the "holy writ of beauty." Published to great acclaim in 1837, it examines the work of Renaissance artists such as Winckelmann and the then neglected Botticelli, and includes a celebrated discussion of the Mona Lisa in a study of Da Vinci. The book strongly influenced art students and aesthetes of the day and is still valuable for...(展开全部)

Western Europe supported a highly developed and diverse medical community in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods. In her absorbing history of this complex era in medicine, Siraisi explores the inner workings of the medical community and illustrates the connections of medicine to both natural philosophy and technical skills.

柯睿（Paul W. Kroll），美国科罗拉多大学博尔德分校中文教授。1976年获密歇根大学博士学位。师从著名汉学家薛爱华，是当今北美中古文学研究的三大家之一。柯睿教授对中国中古时期文学和文化史有大量精彩的研究，包括六十多篇论文和五本论著以及若干编著。近著如A Student’s Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese。柯睿教授多年来一直担任《美国东方学会杂志》（Journal of the American Oriental Society）和《唐学报》（T’ang Studies）的主编。目前则主编欧洲汉学杂志《通报》（T’oung Pao）。童岭，1981年3月生，江苏镇江人。南京大学文学博士。现为南京大学文学院教授。国家第二批“万人计划”青年拔尖人才。主要研究六朝隋唐时代的学术、思想与文学，...(展开全部)

First published in 1923, this anthology provides a cross-section of Lawrence's writing on American literature. It includes landmark essays on Benjamin Franklin, Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville and Walt Whitman. The volume offers the final 1923 version of the text in a newly corrected and uncensored form, and earlier (often very different) ...(展开全部)

First published in 1923, this anthology provides a cross-section of Lawrence's writing on American literature. It includes landmark essays on Benjamin Franklin, Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville and Walt Whitman. The volume offers the final 1923 version of the text in a newly corrected and uncensored form, and earlier (often very different) ...(展开全部)

These essays by one of America's foremost historians of art and architecture range over theory and criticism, the search for connections between art and science in the Renaissance, and specific works of Renaissance architecture.The largest group of essays, dealing with the character of Renaissance architecture, are models of art historical scholarship in their direct approach t...(展开全部)