Was the shift from old to new in this period a transition from medieval to modern? Professor Rice, assisted in this edition by Professor Tony Grafton continues to argue, as in the first edition, that this century represents a shift from medieval to "early" modern.

埃米尔•赖希（1854—1910），匈牙利裔史学家，曾旅居美、法、英等国。主要作品有《柏拉图：对生命的现代批评绪论》《德国的疯狂》《帝国主义》《人类文明史》《希腊和罗马的政制》《英国历史地图集》等。赖希是一位“深刻、通透、澄明而又节制”的史学家，也是较早使用“地缘政治”的英语作家之一。其视野不局囿于现代，而是以柏拉图的视角重新审视现代，对政治生活的精神具有独特的鉴别力。

埃米尔•赖希（1854—1910），匈牙利裔史学家，曾旅居美、法、英等国。主要作品有《柏拉图：对生命的现代批评绪论》《德国的疯狂》《帝国主义》《人类文明史》《希腊和罗马的政制》《英国历史地图集》等。赖希是一位“深刻、通透、澄明而又节制”的史学家，也是较早使用“地缘政治”的英语作家之一。其视野不局囿于现代，而是以柏拉图的视角重新审视现代，对政治生活的精神具有独特的鉴别力。

埃米尔•赖希（1854—1910），匈牙利裔史学家，曾旅居美、法、英等国。主要作品有《柏拉图：对生命的现代批评绪论》《德国的疯狂》《帝国主义》《人类文明史》《希腊和罗马的政制》《英国历史地图集》等。赖希是一位“深刻、通透、澄明而又节制”的史学家，也是较早使用“地缘政治”的英语作家之一。其视野不局囿于现代，而是以柏拉图的视角重新审视现代，对政治生活的精神具有独特的鉴别力。

埃米尔•赖希（1854—1910），匈牙利裔史学家，曾旅居美、法、英等国。主要作品有《柏拉图：对生命的现代批评绪论》《德国的疯狂》《帝国主义》《人类文明史》《希腊和罗马的政制》《英国历史地图集》等。赖希是一位“深刻、通透、澄明而又节制”的史学家，也是较早使用“地缘政治”的英语作家之一。其视野不局囿于现代，而是以柏拉图的视角重新审视现代，对政治生活的精神具有独特的鉴别力。

A gulf of centuries separates the Byzantine Empire from the academic field of Byzantine studies. This book offers a new approach to the history of Byzantine scholarship, focusing on the attraction that Byzantium held for Early Modern Europeans and challenging the stereotype that they dismissed the Byzantine Empire as an object of contempt. The authors in this book focus on how ...(展开全部)

The author of The Footnote reflects on scribes, scholars, and the work of publishing during the golden age of the book. From Francis Bacon to Barack Obama, thinkers and political leaders have denounced humanists as obsessively bookish and allergic to labor. In this celebration of bookmaking in all its messy and intricate detail, renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to ...(展开全部)

The author of The Footnote reflects on scribes, scholars, and the work of publishing during the golden age of the book. From Francis Bacon to Barack Obama, thinkers and political leaders have denounced humanists as obsessively bookish and allergic to labor. In this celebration of bookmaking in all its messy and intricate detail, renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to ...(展开全部)

An unusual collaboration among distinguished art historians and historians of science, this book demonstrates how printmakers of the Northern Renaissance, far from merely illustrating the ideas of others, contributed to scientific investigations of their time. Hans Holbein, for instance, worked with cosmographers and instrument makers on some of the earliest sundial manuals pub...(展开全部)

This volume studies the concept of a political 'language', of a discourse composed of shared vocabularies, idioms and rhetorical strategies, which has been widely influential on recent work in the history of political thought. The collection brings together a number of essays by a distinguished group of international scholars, on the four dominant languages in use in Europe bet...(展开全部)