The Oxford History of Historical Writing : Volume 2: 400-1400

The Oxford History Of Historical Writing Is A Five-volume, Multi-authored Scholarly Survey Of The History Of Historical Writing Across The Globe. It Is A Chronological History Of Humanitys Attempts To Conserve, Recover, And Narrate Its Past With Considerable Attention Paid To Different Global Traditions And Their Points Of Comparison With Western Historiography. Each Volume Covers A Particular Period, With Care Taken To Avoid Unduly Privileging Western Notions Of Periodization, And The Volumes Cover Progressively Shorter Chronological Spans, Reflecting Both The Greater Geographical Range Of Later Volumes And The Steep Increase In Historical Activity Around The World Since The Nineteenth Century. The Oxford History Of Historical Writing Is The First Collective Scholarly Survey Of The History Of Historical Writing To Cover The Globe Across Such A Substantial Breadth Of Time-- V. 1. Beginnings To Ad 600 / Andrew Feldherr And Grant Hardy, Volume Editors ; Ian Hesketh, Assistant Editor -- V. 2. 400-1400 / Sarah Foot And Chase F. Robinson, Volume Editors ; Ian Hesketh, Assistant Editor -- V. 3. 1400-1800 / José Rabasa ... [et. Al.], Volume Editors ; Ian Hesketh, Assistant Editor -- V. 4. 1800-1945 -- V. 5. Historical Writing Since 1945 / Axel Schneider And Daniel Woolf, Volume Editors ; Ian Hesketh, Assistant Editor. Daniel Woolf, General Editor. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover 1 Contents 16 List of Maps 19 Notes on the Contributors 20 Advisory Board 24 Editors’ Introduction 26 PART I: THE TRADITIONS OF HISTORICAL WRITING, 400–1400 40 1. The Growth of Historical Method in Tang China 42 2. Chinese Historiography in the Age of Maturity, 960–1368 62 3. The Birth and Flowering of Japanese Historiography: From Chronicles to Tales to Historical Interpretation 83 4. Indian Historical Writing, c.600–c.1400 105 5. Kingship, Time, and Space: Historiography in Southeast Asia 127 6. The Tradition of Historical Writing in Korea 144 7. Coptic and Ethiopic Historical Writing 163 8. Syriac and Syro-Arabic Historical Writing, c.500–c.1400 180 9. From Reciting to Writing and Interpretation: Tendencies, Themes, and Demarcations of Armenian Historical Writing 205 10. Byzantine Historical Writing, 500–920 226 11. Byzantine Historical Writing, 900–1400 243 12. Islamic Historical Writing, Eighth through the Tenth Centuries 263 13. Islam: The Arabic and Persian Traditions, Eleventh–Fifteenth Centuries 292 14. The Shaping of Past and Present, and Historical Writing in Rus’, c.900–c.1400 312 15. Historical Writing in Central Europe (Bohemia, Hungary, Poland), c.950–1400 337 16. Slavonic Historical Writing in South-Eastern Europe, 1200–1600 353 17. Annals and Chronicles in Western Europe 371 18. The Vicissitudes of Political Identity: Historical Narrative in the Barbarian Successor States of Western Europe 393 19. History, Story, and Community: Representing the Past in Latin Christendom, 1050–1400 416 20. Scandinavian Historical Writing, 1100–1400 439 PART II: MODES OF REPRESENTING THE PAST 454 21. Universal Histories in Christendom and the Islamic World, c.700–c.1400 456 22. Local Histories 482 23. Institutional Histories 501 24. Dynastic Historical Writing 521 25. The Abbasid and Byzantine Courts 542 26. Historical Writing, Ethnicity, and National Identity: Medieval Europe and Byzantium in Comparison 564 27. Historical Writing and Warfare 601 28. Religious History 629 Index 654 A 654 B 655 C 656 D 658 E 659 F 659 G 660 H 660 I 661 J 662 K 663 L 664 M 664 N 665 O 666 P 666 Q 667 R 667 S 667 T 669 U 670 V 670 W 670 X 671 Y 671 Z 671 "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."-- Publisher's description Annotation 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 Peninsulato 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 A 5-volume series that explores representations of the past from the beginnings of writing to the present day, and from all over the world, volume 1 offers essays by leading scholars on the development and history of the major traditions of historical writing, including the ancient Near East, Classical Greece and Rome, and East and South Asia from their origins until c. AD 600. It provides both an authoritative survey of the field and an unrivalled opportunity to make cross-cultural comparisons--Book Jacket