This chronological presentation of Western Europe in the Middle Ages provides the political, religious, intellectual, and economic history of the time. The revision of this classic, definitive text includes the latest historiography and more coverage of medieval society and women. Famous for its compelling narrative, the blend of chronology and historical interpretation, anecdo...(展开全部)

布莱恩•蒂尔尼（Brian Tierney），1922年生，中世纪史名家。英国剑桥大学博士，先后任教美国天主教大学和康奈尔大学，曾任天主教历史学会主席，荣获中世纪研究哈斯金斯奖章、康奈尔大学Johannes Quasten杰出贡献奖。蒂尔尼尤其擅长教会史研究，有多部名作问世，近作为《自然权利的观念》。 西德尼•佩因特（Sidney Painter，1902－1960），中世纪史名家。美国耶鲁大学博士，先后执教耶鲁大学、约翰霍普金斯大学。佩因特专长12世纪欧洲历史，尤其是英格兰的政治社会史，留有多部中世纪史研究名著。 1953年佩因特出版《中世纪史》一书，广受赞誉。在佩因特过世后，蒂尔尼加以补充和改写，1970年出版《西欧中世纪史》，之后不断增补、修订，至今一直是西方学术界最受重视的中世纪通史。

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)

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。

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)