Tag: Historiography

Free Download Cornelia Römer Tarek M. Muhammad, "Thought, Culture, and Historiography in Christian Egypt, 284-641 AD"
English | ISBN: 1527559394 | 2020 | 258 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This book contains 15 papers which were presented by specialists from Europe and Egypt at two conferences held at Ain Shams University, Egypt, in 2014 and 2015. Eight of the articles deal with the history of Late Antique Egypt in its manifold aspects, from monasticism and Coptic manuscripts, to the organization of the Arab conquest. The other seven contributions provide new writings from that historical period published here for the first time, or give new readings of texts earlier known as inscriptions, papyri and ostraca, and offer a close-up look at the historical setting outlined in the first part of this book.

Free Download Arthur Alfaix Assis, "Plural Pasts: Historiography between Events and Structures "
English | ISBN: 1009462520 | 2023 | 75 pages | PDF | 6 MB
What is history about? This Element shows that answers centred on the keyword ‘past events’ are incomplete, even if they are not simply wrong. Interweaving theoretical and historical perspectives, it provides an abstract overview of the thematic plurality that characterizes contemporary academic historiography. The reflection on different sorts of pasts that can be at focus in historical research and writing encompasses events as well as non-events, especially recursive social structures and cultural webs. Some consequences of such plurality for discussions concerning historical methodology, explanation, exemplification, and representation are also outlined. The basic message, reinforced throughout, is that the great relevance of non-event-centred approaches should prompt us to talk more about "histories" in the plural and less about "history" in the singular.

Free Download Regina M. Loehr, "Emotion and Historiography in Polybius’ Histories "
English | ISBN: 1032423625 | 2023 | 234 pages | EPUB, PDF | 931 KB + 20 MB
This volume explores emotion and its importance in Polybius’ conception of history, his writing of historiography, and the benefits of this understanding to readers of history.

Free Download Ephorus of Cyme and Greek Historiography
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1108831184 | 451 Pages | PDF | 4 MB
Ephorus of Cyme, who lived in the fourth century BC, is one of the most important historians of antiquity whose work has not survived and, according to Polybius, was the first to have written a universal history. His lost Histories are known from numerous ‘fragments’, that is, quotations by later authors such as Polybius, Diodorus, Strabo and Plutarch, among others. Through a study of these ‘fragments’ within their broader context, Giovanni Parmeggiani throws new light on the methodology of Ephorus and both the contents and the purpose of his work. By changing our perspective on a major Greek historian between Thucydides and Polybius, this book fills a significant gap in the field, and sets the basis for a new conception of the history of ancient Greek historiography and the Greek intellectual development in general.

Free Download Sudeshna Guha, "Artefacts of History: Archaeology, Historiography and Indian Pasts"
English | 2015 | pages: 308 | ISBN: 9351501647, 9353880815 | PDF | 7,5 mb
This book encourages us to critically regard the ways in which ideologies of cultural heritage and civilisational legacies are transformed into tangible and visible things through archaeological scholarship.

Free Download Jeremy D. Popkin, "From Herodotus to H-Net: The Story of Historiography"
English | 2015 | pages: 273 | ISBN: 0199923000 | PDF | 3,2 mb
From Herodotus to H-Net: The Story of Historiography offers a concise yet comprehensive and up-to-date account of the many ways in which history has been studied and recounted, from the ancient world to the new universe of the Internet. It shows how the same issues that historians debate today