本书作者为大众历史作家，曾为BBC大量历史纪录片撰稿，文笔比较生动易懂。可以为希望较概括了解地中海地区历史的读者提供指引。

V.S. Naipaul undertook this Caribbean journey at the invitation, in 1960, of Dr Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of independent Trinidad, the author's birthplace. At that time, the plantation colonies of the region were formed, culturally, in the image of the metropolis. Racial and political assertion had yet to catch up with them in varying ways. In Trinidad, African ra...(展开全部)

本书作者为大众历史作家，曾为BBC大量历史纪录片撰稿，文笔比较生动易懂。可以为希望较概括了解地中海地区历史的读者提供指引。

V.S. Naipaul undertook this Caribbean journey at the invitation, in 1960, of Dr Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of independent Trinidad, the author's birthplace. At that time, the plantation colonies of the region were formed, culturally, in the image of the metropolis. Racial and political assertion had yet to catch up with them in varying ways. In Trinidad, African ra...(展开全部)

◎著者简介 约翰内斯·弗里德（Johannes Fried）是德国历史学家，主要研究方向为中世纪史。弗里德曾就读于海德堡大学并获得博士学位，后于科隆大学、法兰克福大学任教。 ◎译者简介 李文丹，北京大学德语文学学士、历史学硕士，柏林自由大学博士，现为德国乌普塔尔大学中世纪史专业、保罗·玛利亚·鲍姆加腾教宗史研究中心助理研究员、讲师。 谢娟，北京大学硕士，柏林自由大学博士，现任教于上海外国语大学德语系，研究重点为中古德语长篇叙事诗。

INVENTING THE MIDDLE AGES The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century In this ground-breaking work, Norman Cantor explains how our current notion of the Middle Ages-with its vivid images of wars, tournaments, plagues, saints and kings, knights and ladies-was born in the twentieth century. The medieval world was not simply excavated through ...(展开全部)

INVENTING THE MIDDLE AGES The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century In this ground-breaking work, Norman Cantor explains how our current notion of the Middle Ages-with its vivid images of wars, tournaments, plagues, saints and kings, knights and ladies-was born in the twentieth century. The medieval world was not simply excavated through ...(展开全部)

The Autumn of the Middle Ages is Johan Huizinga’s classic portrait of life, thought, and art in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century France and the Netherlands. Few who have read this book in English realize that The Waning of the Middle Ages, the only previous translation, is vastly different from the original Dutch, and incompatible will all other European-language translations....(展开全部)

In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he has created a deft and remarkably prescient portrait of Trinidad and four adjacent Caribbean societies–countries haunted by the legacies of slavery and colonialism and so thoroughly defined by the norms of Empire that the...(展开全部)