The Oxford History of Historical Writing Volume 2 400-1400 [Hardcover]

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.

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 Debie 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 HilÊ