近年来,明史研究中过分关注明初和明末两头的倾向有所好转,对明朝中期历史的研究开始受到更多的重视。其中,田澍教授著,中国社会科学出版社2002年10月出版的《嘉靖革新研究》一书即是诸多成果中十分引人注目的一部佳作。嘉靖一朝在明代历史中具有特殊的地位。一方面,本朝继永乐“靖难”一百余年后再度发生皇权的非正常更迭。伴随皇位的更迭,在政治领域出现一系列的调整和变革,对明朝中后期的历史走向产生深远影响。另一方面,明代社会在经过成化、弘治几十年的积累和酝酿 In recent years, the tendency of paying too much attention to the early Ming and the late Ming dynasties in the study of Ming Dynasty has been somewhat improved, and the study of the history of the mid Ming Dynasty has received more attention. Among them, Professor Tian Shu, China Social Sciences Publishing House published in October 2002, “Jiajing Innovation Research” book is a lot of achievements in a very compelling piece of masterpiece. Jiajing dynasty in the Ming Dynasty history has a special status. On the one hand, the unusual move of imperial power happened again after a hundred years of Yongle “Jingyuan ”. With the change of imperialism, a series of adjustments and changes in the political field have a profound impact on the historical trend of the middle and late Ming dynasties. On the other hand, the Ming Dynasty society after Chenghua, Hongzhi decades of accumulation and deliberation