The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it.
2012年度ピューリッツア賞受賞作。2011年National Book Awards (全米図書賞)のノンフィクション部門も受賞した作品。15世紀、Book Hunterが見つけてきた『On The Nature Of Things』という詩集が世界を変えた(ヨーロッパに近代化をもたらした)という話。 著者はハーバード大教授。専門は英国ルネサンス文学、近代文学。
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