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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.
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.
Sarah Foot and Chase F. Robinson: 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
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.; 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).
`unrolls the great map of mankind, displaying the historical
consciousness of the human race in all its varieties.'
Jonathan Clark, Times Literary Supplement
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