Each of the seven liberal arts -grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy arts is discussed in an individual essay written by a specialist in the field. These essays examine the establishment of the medieval concept of the arts in the post-classical writings of the Latin encyclopedists, briefly treat their history from the eighth through the Twelft...(展开全部)

雅克·勒戈夫（Jacques Le Goff, 1924- ），法国著名史学家，著述宏富，是“新史学派”在欧洲的代表，现任巴黎高等社会科学院（Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales）院长。

Louise Glück has long practiced poetry as a species of clairvoyance. She began as Cassandra, at a distance, in league with the immortal ; to read her books sequentially is to chart the oracle's metamorphosis into unwilling vessel, reckless, mortal, and crude. The Seven Ages is Glück's ninth book, her strangest and most bold. In it she stares down her own death, and, in so doing...(展开全部)

With a lucid and clear narrative style William Chester Jordan has turned his considerable talents to composing a standard textbook of the opening centuries of the second millennium in Europe. He brings this period of dramatic social, political, economic, cultural, religious and military change, alive to the general reader. Jordan presents the early Medieval period as a lost wor...(展开全部)

This concise introduction to the history of physical science in the Middle Ages begins with a description of the feeble state of early medieval science and its revitalization during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, as evidenced by the explosion of knowledge represented by extensive translations of Greek and Arabic treatises. The content and concepts that came to govern sci...(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)

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)