Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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).

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