Sarah Foot is the Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Christ Church, Oxford. She is the author of AEthelstan: 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 theIslamic World, Sixth to Eleventh Centuries (2011, ed).
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 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
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