《地理学视野下的史学引论》是法国当代著名史学家，法国史学“年鉴学派”的创始人吕西安·费弗尔的代表作之一。作者认为在历史发展的过程中，起决定作用的是人类自身，而非地理环境。同时，在人类与地理环境两者相互的关系中，必须看到后者的重要作用，但他反对地理环境决定论，始终认定人是地理环境的主宰者与改变者。进言之，在人类文明演进的过程中，人总是会不断地受到地理环境的影响乃至重大的影响，但人类有其主观能动性，用贝尔在为该书序言中所说的那样，“人类天生拥有一种出乎意料的进取精神”，人类“生命演进的历史就是积极适应环境的历史”，费弗尔在他的书中以其浓笔重墨体现了贝尔之见，这当然也是该书作者的基本理念。《地理学视野下的史学引论》是年鉴学派的经典著作，有极高的学术价值。 本书自20世纪问世以来，尚无完整的中译本，实在是我国学术研究的一大缺憾，此次列入文库出版，当对我国学术研究起到有力推动作用。

《印刷书的诞生》是法国年鉴学派大师费夫贺与马尔坦的经典之作，自一九五八年於法国出版以来，已成为西方书籍史与出版史研究人员必读的基《印刷书的诞生》目。印刷书的勃兴是一段不容小觑的历史进程，费夫贺与马尔坦在这部广获好评的史书中，聚焦于1450至1800年间，活字印刷术发明后的早期图书史，带领我们探究印刷书诞生的源起，以及西方文明从手抄本迈入印刷书社会的革命性转型。年鉴学派治学之道的极致范例，尽在书中呈现。

Lucien Febvre’s magisterial study of sixteenth century religious and intellectual history, published in 1942, is at long last available in English, in a translation that does it full justice. The book is a modern classic. Febvre, founder with Marc Bloch of the journal Annales, was one of France’s leading historians, a scholar whose field of expertise was the sixteenth century. This book, written late in his career, is regarded as his masterpiece. Despite the subtitle, it is not primarily a study of Rabelais; it is a study of the mental life, the mentalité, of a whole age. Febvre worked on the book for ten years. His purpose at first was polemical: he set out to demolish the notion that Rabelais was a covert atheist, a freethinker ahead of his time. To expose the anachronism of that view, he proceeded to a close examination of the ideas, information, beliefs, and values of Rabelais and his contemporaries. He combed archives and local records, compendia of popular lore, the work of writers from Luther and Erasmus to Ronsard, the verses of obscure neo-Latin poets. Everything was grist for his mill: books about comets, medical texts, philological treatises, even music and architecture. The result is a work of extraordinary richness of texture, enlivened by a wealth of concrete details—a compelling intellectual portrait of the period by a historian of rare insight, great intelligence, and vast learning. Febvre wrote with Gallic flair. His style is informal, often witty, at times combative, and colorful almost to a fault. His idiosyncrasies of syntax and vocabulary have defeated many who have tried to read, let alone translate, the French text. Beatrice Gottlieb has succeeded in rendering his prose accurately and readably, conveying a sense of Febvre’s strong, often argumentative personality as well as his brilliantly intuitive feeling for Renaissance France.