中世纪的视野：为什么这一时期如此重要 Medieval Horizons

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 254 pages

Publisher:RosettaBooks

Imprint:RosettaBooks

ISBN:9780795301094

Published:12 Mar 2024

Dimensions:203 x 133 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

畅销书《时间旅行者指南：中世纪英格兰》的作者撰写的中世纪入门读物

我们倾向于认为中世纪是一个黑暗、落后和一成不变的时代，充斥着暴力、无知和迷信。相反，我们认为进步源于科学和技术创新，近几个世纪的发明创造了现代世界。

我们大错特错。正如伊恩·莫蒂默在这本引人入胜的书中所展示的那样，人们的视野——他们的知识、经验和对世界的理解——得到了极大的拓展。公元 1000 年至 1600 年间，生活发生了彻底的变化，标志着从战士主导的社会向莎士比亚社会的转变。

正如《时间旅行者指南：中世纪英格兰》揭示了 14 世纪的生活一样，《中世纪视野》为整个时代提供了理想的入门读物。它概述了所发生的巨大文化变革——从识字率到生活水平、不平等甚至自我意识的发展——从而纠正了误解，并将这一时期描述为西方世界发展中具有根本重要性的革命时代。

The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England

We tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time characterised by violence, ignorance and superstition. By contrast we believe progress arose from science and technological innovation, and that inventions of recent centuries created the modern world.

We couldn't be more wrong. As Ian Mortimer shows in this fascinating book, people's horizons - their knowledge, experience and understanding of the world - expanded dramatically. Life was utterly transformed between 1000 and 1600, marking the transition from a warrior-led society to that of Shakespeare.

Just as The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England revealed what it was like to live in the fourteenth century, Medieval Horizons provides the perfect primer to the era as a whole. It outlines the enormous cultural changes that took place - from literacy to living standards, inequality and even the developing sense of self - thereby correcting misconceptions and presenting the period as a revolutionary age of fundamental importance in the development of the Western world.

作者简介

《泰晤士报》将伊恩·莫蒂默博士描述为“我们这个时代杰出的中世纪历史学家”。他知名的作品是《时间旅行者指南：中世纪英格兰》（2008 年）；伊丽莎白时代的英格兰（2012 年）；复辟时期的英国（2017 年）；以及摄政时期的英国（2020 年）。他是皇家历史学会会员和古物学会会员，并在学术期刊上发表过涉及 12 世纪至 20 世纪每个世纪的研究成果。

他也写作其他类型的作品。他的新小说《时间的弃儿》发生在 1348 年至 1942 年间，获得了 2019 年温斯顿·格雷厄姆历史小说奖。他的前三部小说《克拉伦索三部曲》以 1560 年代为背景，以他的中间名“詹姆斯·福雷斯特”出版。在他五十岁那年，他写了一本关于跑步意义的回忆录《跑步为什么重要》（2019 年出版）。

Dr Ian Mortimer has been described by The Times newspaper as 'the most remarkable medieval historian of our time'. He is best known as the author of The Time Traveller's Guides: to Medieval England (2008); to Elizabethan England (2012); to Restoration Britain (2017); and to Regency Britain (2020). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and has published research in academic journals touching on every century from the twelfth to the twentieth.

He also writes in other genres. His latest novel, 'The Outcasts of Time', which takes place across the years 1348-1942, won the 2019 Winston Graham Prize for historical fiction. His first three novels, the Clarenceux Trilogy, set in the 1560s, appeared under his middle names, 'James Forrester'. In the year he turned fifty he wrote a memoir about the meaning of running, Why Running Matters (published in 2019).