The Oxford History of Historical Writing

Volume 2: 400-1400
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-923642-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 720 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1162 g

How was history written in Europe and Asia between 400-1400? How was the past understood in religious, social and political terms? And in what ways does the diversity of historical writing in this period mask underlying commonalities in narrating the past? The volume, which assembles 28 contributions from leading historians, tackles these and other questions. Part I provides comprehensive overviews of the development of historical writing in societies that range from the Korean Peninsula to north-west Europe, which together highlight regional and cultural distinctiveness. Part II complements the first part by taking a thematic and comparative approach; it includes essays on genre, warfare, and religion (amongst others) which address common concerns of historians working in this liminal period before the globalizing forces of the early modern world.

Zielgruppe

Specialists in history, literature, cultural studies, comparative literature, and world history and historiography; undergraduate and postgraduate students of history

Autoren/Hrsg.

Foot, Sarah

Robinson, Chase F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Editors' Introduction

- PART I: THE TRADITIONS OF HISTORICAL WRITING, 400-1400

- 1: Charles Hartman and Anthony DeBlasi: The Growth of Historical Method in Tang China

- 2: Charles Hartman: Chinese Historiography in the Age of Maturity, 960-1368

- 3: John R. Bentley: The Birth and Flowering of Japanese Historiography: From Chronicles to Tales to Historical Interpretation

- 4: Daud Ali: Indian Historical Writing, c.600-c.1400

- 5: John K. Whitmore: Kingship, Time, and Space: Historiography in Southeast Asia

- 6: Remco Breuker, Grace Koh, and James Lewis: The Tradition of Historical Writing in Korea

- 7: Witold Witakowski: Coptic and Ethiopic Historical Writing

- 8: Muriel Debié and David Taylor: Syriac and Syro-Arabic Historical Writing, c.500-c.1400

- 9: Theo Maarten van Lint: From Reciting to Writing and Interpretation: Tendencies, Themes, and Demarcations of Armenian Historical Writing

- 10: Anthony Kaldellis: Byzantine Historical Writing, 500-920

- 11: Paul Magdalino: Byzantine Historical Writing, 900-1400

- 12: Chase F. Robinson: Islamic Historical Writing, Eighth through the Tenth Centuries

- 13: Konrad Hirschler: Islam: The Arabic and Persian Traditions, Eleventh-Fifteenth Centuries

- 14: Jonathan Shepard: The Shaping of Past and Present, and Historical Writing in Rus', c.900-c.1400

- 15: Nora Berend: Historical Writing in Central Europe (Bohemia, Hungary, Poland), c.950-1400

- 16: Petre Guran: Slavonic Historical Writing in South-Eastern Europe, 1200-1600

- 17: Sarah Foot: Annals and Chronicles in Western Europe

- 18: Felice Lifshitz: The Vicissitudes of Political Identity: Historical Narrative in the Barbarian Successor States of Western Europe

- 19: Charles F. Briggs: History, Story, and Community: Representing the Past in Latin Christendom, 1050-1400

- 20: Sverre Bagge: Scandinavian Historical Writing, 1100-1400

- PART II: MODES OF REPRESENTING THE PAST

- 21: Andrew Marsham: Universal Histories in Christendom and the Islamic World, c.700-c.1400

- 22: John Hudson: Local Histories

- 23: Peter Lorge: Institutional Histories

- 24: Charles West: Dynastic Historical Writing

- 25: Nadia Maria El Cheikh: The Abbasid and Byzantine Courts

- 26: Matthew Innes: Historical Writing, Ethnicity, and National Identity: Medieval Europe and Byzantium in Comparison

- 27: Meredith L. D. Riedel: Historical Writing and Warfare

- 28: Thomas Sizgorich: Religious History

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Foot, Sarah
Sarah Foot is the Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Christ Church, Oxford. She is the author of Æthelstan: the First English Monarch (2011); Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600-900 (2006) and has written widely on perceptions and uses of the past in the early medieval West.

Robinson, Chase F.
Chase F Robinson is Distinguished Professor and Provost of the Graduate Center, The City University of New York. A specialist in early Islamic history and historiography, he is the author or editor of several books, most recently The New Cambridge History of Islam, Volume 1: The Formation of the Islamic World, Sixth to Eleventh Centuries (2011, ed).