Companion to Historiography (Routledge Companion Encyclopedias)

This new work gives a definitive overview of the most important developments in the techniques of and approaches to historical writing. Each author presents a study of recent historiography in relation to a particular theme or problem--frequently in the context of other disciplines. BOOK COVER......Page 1 HALF-TITLE......Page 2 TITLE......Page 3 COPYRIGHT......Page 4 CONTENTS......Page 5 EDITORIAL BOARD......Page 9 CONTRIBUTORS......Page 10 GENERAL INTRODUCTION......Page 12 PART I BEGINNINGS-EAST AND WEST......Page 19 INTRODUCTION......Page 20 1 THE EVOLUTION OF TWO ASIAN HISTORIOGRAPHICAL TRADITIONS......Page 27 2 HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ANCIENT GREEK SELF-DEFINITION1......Page 38 3 RE-READING THE ROMAN HISTORIANS......Page 56 4 THE RELIGION OF ROME FROM MONARCHY TO PRINCIPATE......Page 71 5 LATE ANTIQUITY AND THE EARLY MEDIEVAL WEST......Page 83 6 MODERNIZING THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF RURAL LABOUR: AN UNWRITTEN AGENDA......Page 101 PART II THE MEDIEVAL WORLD......Page 115 INTRODUCTION: REGARDING MEDIEVALISTS: CONTEXTS AND APPROACHES......Page 116 7 THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE MEDIEVAL STATE......Page 127 8 SALADIN AND THE THIRD CRUSADE: A CASE STUDY IN HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE HISTORICAL NOVEL......Page 148 9 FAMILY, GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE MIDDLE AGES1......Page 161 10 THE MEDIEVAL NOBILITY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY HISTORIOGRAPHY1......Page 184 11 MEDIEVAL MILITARY HISTORIOGRAPHY......Page 209 12 POPULAR RELIGION IN THE CENTRAL AND LATER MIDDLE AGES......Page 227 PART III EARLY MODERN HISTORIOGRAPHY......Page 253 INTRODUCTORY SURVEY: FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY......Page 254 13 THE IDEA OF EARLY MODERN HISTORY......Page 286 14 THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION......Page 298 15 THE WRITING OF EARLY MODERN EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY, 1945-19951......Page 312 16 THE ENGLISH REFORMATION, 1945-1995......Page 341 17 POPULAR CULTURE IN THE EARLY MODERN WEST......Page 366 18 REVISIONISM IN BRITAIN......Page 382 PART IV REFLECTING ON THE MODERN AGE......Page 396 INTRODUCTION: APPROACHES TO MODERNITY: WESTERN HISTORIOGRAPHY SINCE THE ENLIGHTENMENT......Page 397 PART IV.1 REVOLUTION AND IDEOLOGY......Page 515 19 THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION......Page 516 20 THE SOVIET REVOLUTION......Page 533 21 THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM......Page 552 22 MODERN ITALY-CHANGING HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES SINCE 1945......Page 598 23 THE CRITIQUE OF ORIENTALISM1......Page 625 PART IV.2 AREA STUDIES......Page 644 24 THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MODERN CHINA......Page 645 25 THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MODERN JAPAN1......Page 663 26 MODERN INDIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY......Page 681 27 HISTORY IN AFRICA......Page 696 28 MODERN AMERICAN HISTORIOGRAPHY......Page 712 29 LATIN AMERICA......Page 730 PART V CONTEXTS FOR THE WRITING OF HISTORY......Page 761 PART V.1 HINTERLANDS......Page 763 30 PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY......Page 764 31 HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY1......Page 783 32 ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY......Page 806 33 THE HISTORY OF WESTERN ART HISTORY......Page 829 PART V.2 APPROACHES......Page 850 34 THE HISTORICAL NARRATIVE......Page 851 35 THE ANNALES EXPERIMENT......Page 871 36 MARXIST HISTORIOGRAPHY......Page 886 37 WOMEN, GENDER AND THE FIN DE SIÈCLE......Page 925 38 WORLD HISTORY......Page 936 39 ARCHIVES, THE HISTORIAN AND THE FUTURE......Page 955 INDEX......Page 967 The Companion to Historiography is an original analysis of the moods and trends in historical writing throughout its phases of development and explores the assumptions and procedures that have formed the creation of historical perspectives. Contributed by a distinguished panel of academics, each essay conveys in direct, jargon-free language a genuinely international, wide-angled view of the ideas, traditions and institutions that lie behind the contemporary urgency of world history. Presents a thematic overview of historiography explored through a series of wide-ranging articles. The text has been compiled by experts in the field and is fully indexed for ease of access. The thematic structure of the text enables each topic to be read selectively or sequentially 'Companion to Historiography' represents an original analysis of the moods and trends in historical writing throughout its phases of development, and explores the assumptions and procedures that have formed the creation of historical perspectives The Companion to Historiography represents an original analysis of the moods & trends in historical writing throughout its phases of development & explores the assumptions & procedures that have formed the creation of historical perspectives