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.

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)

詹姆斯·鲍威尔（James M. Powell），美国雪城大学中世纪史教授，曾任普林斯顿大学高等研究院客座研究员。著有《一次十字军运动剖析，1213至1221年》（Anatomy of a Crusade，1213-1212）（获约翰·吉尔马里·谢伊奖）和《布雷西亚的阿尔伯塔努斯：13世纪初的幸福追寻》（Albertanus of Brescia：The Pursuit of Happiness irl the Early Thirteenth Century）。

Here, the themes and concepts of Renaissance art are analysed and related to both classical and medieval tendencies.

Here, the themes and concepts of Renaissance art are analysed and related to both classical and medieval tendencies.

Man and Nature in the Renaissance offers an introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phases of the scientific revolution, from the mid-fifteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century. Renaissance science has frequently been approached in terms of the progress of the exact sciences of mathematics and astronomy, to the neglect of the broader intellectual context o...(展开全部)

Man and Nature in the Renaissance offers an introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phases of the scientific revolution, from the mid-fifteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century. Renaissance science has frequently been approached in terms of the progress of the exact sciences of mathematics and astronomy, to the neglect of the broader intellectual context o...(展开全部)