【作者简介】 彼得·布朗（Peter Brown），普林斯顿大学历史学荣休教授。他毕业于牛津大学，并曾于伦敦大学和加州大学伯克利分校任教。他对古代晚期这一研究领域做出了杰出贡献。他的著作尤其关注罗马帝国晚期和中世纪早期欧洲的宗教文化，以及宗教与社会的关系，作品包括：《希波的奥古斯丁》 《古代晚期的世界》《圣徒崇拜》《身体与社会》《西方基督教的崛起》《罗马帝国后期的贫困与领导》。 【译者简介】 王班班，德国海德堡大学“物质文本文化”研究中心助理研究员、古代史与碑铭学系博士研究生，主要研究领域为希腊碑铭学，译有《罗马：一个帝国的故事》。

This remarkable study in social and cultural change explains how and why the Late Antique world, between c. 150 and c. 750 A.D., came to differ from "Classical civilization." These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deeply rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for all time. By 476 the Russian empire had vanished from western Europe; by 6...(展开全部)

This remarkable study in social and cultural change explains how and why the Late Antique world, between c.150 and c.750 A.D., came to differ from 'Classical civilization'. These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deep-rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for all time. By 476 the Roman empire had vanished from western Europe; by 655 the ...(展开全部)

This remarkable study in social and cultural change explains how and why the Late Antique world, between c. 150 and c. 750, came to differ from "Classical civilization." These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deeply rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for all time. By 476 the Roman empire had vanished from western Europe; by 655 the P...(展开全部)

【编辑推荐】 ★见证古代晚期地中海世界的沧桑巨变。 ★古典文明何以分裂为迥异的信仰天主教的西欧、信仰东正教的拜占庭以及信仰伊斯兰教的东方的。 ★插图华丽，全彩印刷，130幅图片。 【媒体推荐】 彼得·布朗优雅而令人深思的文字得到了常常鲜为人知的插图的支持……一本优雅与学术性兼备的著作。 ——《泰晤士报文学增 刊》 他在表达为什么某些事会让古代的男男女女如此着迷这一问题上拥有现在写作的学者们难以匹敌的技巧……具有学术性、启发性且图文并茂。 ——《今日历史》 敏锐、令人深思、博学……充满了生动的图像和公正的热情。 ——《星期日泰晤士报》 这部详细而优美的叙述中有大量知识和思考。 ——《旁观者》 极好的……我很久没有如此喜欢一部历史作品了。 ——菲利普·汤因比，《观察家报》 【内容简介】 《古代晚期的世界》是一部关于社会和文化变化的卓越研究，它解释了从约公...(展开全部)

How did empires rule different peoples across vast expanses of space and time? And how did small numbers of imperial bureaucrats govern large numbers of subordinated peoples? Empires and Bureaucracy in World History seeks answers to these fundamental problems in imperial studies by exploring the power and limits of bureaucracy. The book is pioneering in bringing together histor...(展开全部)

In 1764, Johann Joachim Winckelmann published a key early instance of art-historical thinking, his "Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums", here translated into English for the first time. Dazzled by the sensuous and plastic beauty of recently excavated artifacts - coins, engraved gems, vases, paintings, reliefs, and statues - Winckelmann synthesized the visual and written eviden...(展开全部)

All major continental empires proclaimed their desire to rule 'the entire world', investing considerable human and material resources in expanding their territory. Each, however, eventually had to stop expansion and come to terms with a shift to defensive strategy. This volume explores the factors that facilitated Eurasian empires' expansion and contraction: from ideology to ec...(展开全部)

彼得·布朗（Peter Brown），普林斯顿大学荣休历史学教授。“古代晚期研究领域的发明者”，权威的奥古斯丁专家，晚期罗马帝国宗教史研究最杰出的历史学家之一。特别关注晚期罗马帝国和早期中世纪欧洲的宗教文化，以及宗教与社会之间的关系。著有The Rise of Western Christendom ；The Body and Society ： Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity ；The World of Late Antiquity ：AD 150-750 等。