A novel that depicts the complex relationship between the Han-dynasty Emperors and Sima Qian by a leading French scholar of ancient Chinese history, Jean Levi,
How do people, in both the past and the present, think about moments of social and political crisis, and how do they respond to them? What are the interpretive
Between the reigns of Charlemagne and Charles the Fat, Europe underwent a series of alarming and unsettling changes. Civil war broke out, royal authority was di
This book, originally published in 1977, is a survey of European historiography from its origins in the historians of Greece and Rome, through the annalists and