The Oxford history of historical writing. Volume 2, 400-1400
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
History
1 online resource (720 pages) : maps
9780199236428, 9781283851336, 9780191636936, 0199236429, 1283851334, 0191636932
819816821
Print version:
pt. 1. The traditions of historical writing, 400-1400
pt. 2. Modes of representing the past
Includes index