With the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe’s cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells the remarkable story of the Renaissance studiolo—a “little studio”—and reveals how these spaces dedicated to self-cultivation became both a remedy and a poison for the soul. Blending fresh, insightful readings of li...(展开全部)

Erich Auerbach wrote his classic work Mimesis, a history of narrative from Homer to Proust, based largely on his memory of past reading. Having left his physical library behind when he fled to Istanbul to escape the Nazis, he was forced to rely on the invisible library of his mind. Each of us has such a library—if not as extensive as Auerbach’s—even if we are unaware of it. In ...(展开全部)

A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons the princely rulers of Italy's dynastic states and their families. From the late Middle Ages, the independent Italian city-states were taken over by powerful families who installed themselves as dynastic rulers. Inspired by the humanists, the princes of fift...(展开全部)

查尔斯·霍默·哈斯金斯(Charles Homer Haskins)，美国历史学家，中世纪史权威。1870年生，幼年即开始学习拉丁文和希腊文。16岁毕业于约翰·霍普金斯大学，后来到巴黎和柏林学习。不到20岁就获得了博士学位，并开始在约翰·霍普金斯大学任教。1892到1902年转到威斯康星大学讲授欧洲史。1902年应聘到哈佛大学，直到1931年因身体状况退休。1937年逝世。在长期的哈佛岁月中，他成为该大学、乃至美国史学界最著名的人物之一。主要著作有：《欧洲历史上的诺曼人》(1915年)、《诺曼社会制度》(1918年)、《大学的兴起》(1923年)、《中世纪科学史研究》(1924年)、《12世纪文艺复兴》(1927年)、《中世纪文化研究》(1929年)。

Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence; in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. How you dress, talk, and behave can have life-or-death consequences, with young people particularly at risk.The most powerful force counteracting this code and its reign of terror is the strong, lovi...(展开全部)

One is a science, the other an art; one useful, the other seemingly decorative, but mathematics and music share common origins in cult and mystery and have been linked throughout history. Emblems of Mind is Edward Rothstein’s classic exploration of their profound similarities, a journey into their “inner life.” Along the way, Rothstein explains how mathematics makes sense of ...(展开全部)

Since its appearance in 1725, it has been used by and has directly influenced the work of many of the greatest composers. J. S. Bach held it in high esteem, Leopold Mozart trained his famous son from its pages, Haydn worked out every lesson with meticulous care, and Beethoven condensed it into an abstract for ready reference.

This bestselling textbook is the most fundamental and easy-to-use introduction for students with no prior knowledge of linguistics. Broad yet concise, this manageable overview of key topics draws students in, with thirty new tasks, new foreign-language examples, and an expanded and revised online study guide.

A year after the publication of Dicey's LAW OF THE CONSTITUTION, William Gladstone was reading it aloud in the House of Commons, citing it as authority. It remains, to this day, a starting point for the study of the English Constitution and comparative constitutional law. THE LAW OF THE CONSTITUTION elucidates the guiding principles of the modern constitution of England: the le...(展开全部)