The Oxford History of Historical Writing

Volume 2: 400-1400

Edited by Sarah Foot and Chase F. Robinson

Oxford History of Historical Writing

New essays exploring the ways in which history was written in Europe and Asia between 400 and 1400
The international team of leading scholars adopt a non-Eurocentric perspective
Includes timetables and select bibliographies of key primary and secondary sources which help to orientate non-specialist readers

The Oxford History of Historical Writing

Volume 2: 400-1400

Edited by Sarah Foot and Chase F. Robinson

Oxford History of Historical Writing

Description

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.

The Oxford History of Historical Writing

Volume 2: 400-1400

Edited by Sarah Foot and Chase F. Robinson

Oxford History of Historical Writing

Editors' Introduction, Sarah Foot and Chase F. Robinson
PART I: THE TRADITIONS OF HISTORICAL WRITING, 400-1400
1:The Growth of Historical Method in Tang China, Charles Hartman and Anthony DeBlasi
2:Chinese Historiography in the Age of Maturity, 960-1368, Charles Hartman
3:The Birth and Flowering of Japanese Historiography: From Chronicles to Tales to Historical Interpretation, John R. Bentley
4:Indian Historical Writing, c.600-c.1400, Daud Ali
5:Kingship, Time, and Space: Historiography in Southeast Asia, John K. Whitmore
6:The Tradition of Historical Writing in Korea, Remco Breuker, Grace Koh, and James Lewis
7:Coptic and Ethiopic Historical Writing, Witold Witakowski
8:Syriac and Syro-Arabic Historical Writing, c.500-c.1400, Muriel Debié and David Taylor
9:From Reciting to Writing and Interpretation: Tendencies, Themes, and Demarcations of Armenian Historical Writing, Theo Maarten van Lint
10:Byzantine Historical Writing, 500-920, Anthony Kaldellis
11:Byzantine Historical Writing, 900-1400, Paul Magdalino
12:Islamic Historical Writing, Eighth through the Tenth Centuries, Chase F. Robinson
13:Islam: The Arabic and Persian Traditions, Eleventh-Fifteenth Centuries, Konrad Hirschler
14:The Shaping of Past and Present, and Historical Writing in Rus', c.900-c.1400, Jonathan Shepard
15:Historical Writing in Central Europe (Bohemia, Hungary, Poland), c.950-1400, Nora Berend
16:Slavonic Historical Writing in South-Eastern Europe, 1200-1600, Petre Guran
17:Annals and Chronicles in Western Europe, Sarah Foot
18:The Vicissitudes of Political Identity: Historical Narrative in the Barbarian Successor States of Western Europe, Felice Lifshitz
19:History, Story, and Community: Representing the Past in Latin Christendom, 1050-1400, Charles F. Briggs
20:Scandinavian Historical Writing, 1100-1400, Sverre Bagge
PART II: MODES OF REPRESENTING THE PAST
21:Universal Histories in Christendom and the Islamic World, c.700-c.1400, Andrew Marsham
22:Local Histories, John Hudson
23:Institutional Histories, Peter Lorge
24:Dynastic Historical Writing, Charles West
25:The Abbasid and Byzantine Courts, Nadia Maria El Cheikh
26:Historical Writing, Ethnicity, and National Identity: Medieval Europe and Byzantium in Comparison, Matthew Innes
27:Historical Writing and Warfare, Meredith L. D. Riedel
28:Religious History, Thomas Sizgorich
Index

The Oxford History of Historical Writing

Volume 2: 400-1400

Edited by Sarah Foot and Chase F. Robinson

Oxford History of Historical Writing

Author Information

Edited by Sarah Foot, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Christ Church, Oxford, and Chase F. Robinson, Distinguished Professor of History and Provost, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York

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).

Contributors:

Daud Ali, University of Pennsylvania
Sverre Bagge, University of Bergen
John R. Bentley, Northern Illinois University
Nora Berend, University of Cambridge
Remco Breuker, Leiden University
Charles F. Briggs, University of Vermont
Muriel Debié, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Institut Catholique de Paris
Anthony DeBlasi, University at Albany (SUNY)
Nadia Maria El Cheikh, American University of Beirut
Sarah Foot, Christ Church, Oxford
Petre Guran, Institute for South-East European Studies, Bucharest
Charles Hartman, University at Albany (SUNY)
Ian Hesketh, Queen's University in Kingston
Konrad Hirschler, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
John Hudson, University of St Andrews and University of Michigan Law School
Matthew Innes, Birkbeck, University of London
Anthony Kaldellis, The Ohio State University
Grace Koh, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
James B. Lewis, University of Oxford
Felice Lifshitz, University of Alberta
Theo Maarten van Lint, University of Oxford
Peter Lorge, Vanderbilt University
Paul Magdalino, University of St Andrews and Koç University Istanbul
Andrew Marsham, University of Edinburgh
Meredith L. D. Riedel, Wheaton College, Illinois
Chase F. Robinson, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Jonathan Shepard, formerly a fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge
Thomas Sizgorich, formerly of the University of California, Irvine
David Taylor, University of Oxford
Charles West, University of Sheffield
John K. Whitmore, University of Michigan
Witold Witakowski, Uppsala University, Sweden
Daniel Woolf, Queen's University in Kingston, Canada

The Oxford History of Historical Writing

Volume 2: 400-1400

Edited by Sarah Foot and Chase F. Robinson

Oxford History of Historical Writing

Reviews and Awards

"The Oxford History of History Writing is a fundamental publication on international historiography traditions, its problems, and key actors." - Zaur Gasimov, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas