Author : Sarah Foot
Release : 2015
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 995/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford History of Historical Writing by : Sarah Foot

Download or read book The Oxford History of Historical Writing written by Sarah Foot. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 28contributions 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 IIcomplements 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.