But you may be surprised to hear that the
Middle Ages were like a starry night. Let me explain.Have you ever
heard people talking about the Dark Ages? This is the name given
to the period which followed the collapse of the Roman empire
when very few people could read or write and hardly anyone knew
what was going on in the world. And because of this, they loved
telling each other all sorts of weird and wonderful tales and were
generally very superstitious. ‘Dark’, too, because houses in those
days were small and dark, and because the streets and highways
that the Romans had built had all fallen into decay and were overgrown
and their camps and cities had become grass-covered ruins.
The good Roman laws were forgotten and the beautiful Greek
statues had been smashed to pieces. All this is tr... (查看原文)
张荣昌 译者
兰小欢
Yale University Press2005版
Vsymbol
广西师范大学出版社2009版
yuele
广西师范大学出版社2009版
Homly
0 有用 字润不知 2009-10-08 11:06:14
给想提高自身涵养的入门级童鞋们。我高三时候买的书。挺老贵的，不过质量很好。
0 有用 gawe 2013-08-04 19:52:33
如果童年时就能读到这本书，历史就不会学得这么差了。
0 有用 怪咖研究院长长 2009-12-17 04:24:38
书很好，就是翻译的有点差。
0 有用 karlan 2012-12-12 13:49:00
这个是A Little History of the World的中文译本，note在这里
0 有用 [已注销] 2012-09-13 17:16:52
只记得写的很好……啊，内容什么的