scholarly journals “Early historical writing” and the beginning of the Russian chronicle tradition

2019 ◽  
pp. 264-278
Author(s):  
Vladimir Petrukhin
Keyword(s):  
Historical Writing ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Questions And Answers

Vladimir N. Toporov demonstrated that the beginning of the Primary Russian Chronicle corresponded to a typical beginning of the early his-torical writing: questions and answers concerning main historical events. The cosmographical introduction to the Chronicle and the legend of the invitation of the Varangians was based on the Biblical tradition (the Book of Jubilees).

Historiography: An Introductory Guide

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eileen Ka-May Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
The Past ◽  
Integral Role ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Historian ◽  
Subjective Perspective ◽  
The Many

“What is historiography?” asked the American historian Carl Becker in 1938. Professional historians continue to argue over the meaning of the term. This book challenges the view of historiography as an esoteric subject by presenting an accessible and concise overview of the history of historical writing from the Renaissance to the present. Historiography plays an integral role in aiding undergraduate students to better understand the nature and purpose of historical analysis more generally by examining the many conflicting ways that historians have defined and approached history. By demonstrating how these historians have differed in both their interpretations of specific historical events and their definitions of history itself, this book conveys to students the interpretive character of history as a discipline and the way that the historian’s context and subjective perspective influence his or her understanding of the past.

scholarly journals David Hume, the Académie des inscriptions and the Nature of Historical Evidence in the Early Eighteenth Century

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Pedro Faria
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
David Hume ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Common Experience ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Early Eighteenth Century ◽  
Belles Lettres

Philosophical history became the Enlightenment genre of historical writing par excellence supposedly by “defeating” established humanist erudite history and antiquarianism. This article argues that, contrary to established perceptions, philosophical history developed out of a concern expressed by early eighteenth-century erudite historians about the nature of historical evidence: both David Hume—leading philosophical historian—and the members of the French erudite Académie des inscriptions et belles lettres shared a broadly Lockean approach to historical evidence, choosing verisimilitude to common experience as the key criterion of certainty. Indeed, Hume likely drew directly from the académiciens. Historical certainty is achieved, both sides concluded, by providing a verisimilar chain of causes of historical events, rather than mere lists of historical facts. Philosophical historians like Hume departed from the reformulated eighteenth-century version of erudite history by making causes the main object of history rather than merely a foundation of trustworthy factual accounts.

Some Comments on Style in the Meanings of the Past

1979 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelly Errington
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Rhetorical Analysis ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Sentence Structure ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
The Past ◽  
Court Literature

AbstractLike the European written genre history, court literature from the traditional kingdoms of Southeast Asia often relates historical events and possible or probable genealogies. Yet, like the myths of tribal peoples, these accounts are characterized by mythical elements and a somewhat repetitious style, and were recited aloud rather than read in private silence. But if we regard them as mixtures of historical and mythical elements, our understanding of their inner structure and meaning is inevitably compromised, for the notion of a mixture already imposes assumptions about the shape of the past and criteria of reality which are implicit in a historical consciousness. The form in which thought is couched, after all, is the thought, not a representation of something behind or outside it. This paper therefore attempts a rhetorical analysis of a Classical Malay text of the type called hikayat, one which dates from about the seventeenth century. It begins with an analysis of grammar and sentence structure, then moves to certain stylistic features of hikayat, contrasting them with some stylistic features of historical writing. I then comment on the context of texts—the meaning of audience, of performance, of language, of author—and end with some speculation about the notion of the past as revealed in Classical Malay hikayat.

scholarly journals Fiction and History: Polarity and Stylistic Gradience in Late Imperial Chinese Literature

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Vierthaler
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Literature ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Late Ming

In late Ming and early Qing China (1550-1700), unofficial historical narratives were extremely popular. At the time, a variety of historical and semi-historical genres flourished, including yeshi 野史 unofficial or wild histories, novels on historical events, and dramas on historical events. These texts form a group of related yet distinct styles of historical writing that I collectively refer to as quasi-histories. This is an umbrella term for a system of texts that contain some historical content but exist in a wide array of genres with different stylistic features and cultural significances.

Narrative Constraints on Historical Writing: The Case of the Scientific Revolution

1994 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rivka Feldhay
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Single Product ◽  
Historical Texts ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Means Of Production

The ArgumentIn this paper three canonical studies of the scientific revolution are subjected to narratological analysis. Underlying this analysis is the assumption that in any single product of historical writing it is possible to distinguish, for analytical purposes, between three levels of reference: the object of the text — the events; the representation of the events — the narrative; and the text in which a story is represented by means of narrative. Through texts one learns about historical events (the object of the text), but also about the process of producing the texts (the narrative). Techniques of representation are means of production of texts that represent, in addition to the events, also the producer and his or her authority. The distinction made for any specific text allows the reader to play the two levels against each other in order to create a space within which historical writing should be criticized. Such criticism may draw attention to the difficulty of controlling the meaning of historical stories, and to the need to analyze narrative structures in order to appreciate the ideological changes of historical texts.

National and International Dimensions of Indonesian History

1965 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justus M. van der Kroef
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
European History ◽  
Indigenous Culture ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Central Java ◽  
North Sumatra ◽  
History Books ◽  
Culture Tradition

Among the more noteworthy features of the Indonesian government's current efforts to recover and accentuate what is believed to be the nation's “cultural identity” is the encouragement being given to the shift in emphasis in the writing of Indonesian history so as to bring out more fully the uniqueness and greatness of the Indonesian cultural achievement. This new “Indonesia-centric” approach is said to provide a much needed correction of the earlier, colonially oriented and “Western centric” type of historical writing about Indonesia, in which the Indonesian “identity” allegedly was obscured because of Western and Dutch ethnocentric prejudices, arid in which historical events in Indonesia were treated as mere appendages to Dutch or European history generally. As early as December, 1957, a seminar of historians in Djokjakarta, Central Java, was convened “in order to eliminate the colonial historian's presentation and restore the proper emphasis on the indigenous culture, tradition and history” in “the history books of the country”. More than five years later the problem still appeared not to have been resolved as yet, for at another historical seminar held in Medan, North Sumatra, in March, 1963, Indonesia's Deputy First Minister for Information, Ruslan Abdulgani, was reportedly still calling “on Indonesian writers to begin to ‘rewrite’ Indonesian history to cleanse it of what he called ‘West-centrism’”. Indonesian historians, Abdulgani urged, “must dare to rewrite our history so that it will no longer be West-centric but Indonesiacentric”.

scholarly journals History and experience in Elena Mauli Shapiro’s "13 rue Thérèse": How do we get to know the past?

2019 ◽  
pp. 25-36
Author(s):  
Ewa Fiutka
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
The Past

Elena Mauli Shapiro in “13 rue Thérèse” asks questions about the ways of mediating the past. The problem is by no means new but the author attempts to present historical events through the category of historical experience as a valid manner of showing the past. Therefore, the novel is looked upon from the perspective of Frank Ankersmit’s concept of experience as well as the theory of objects as tools which assist the recipient in mediating the past. Thus, both through the use of the category of experience and the presentation of history through objects, the past is presented as fragmented and unreliable, which in fact reflects how historical writing is perceived nowadays, especially if the ending of the novel suggests that the past is inevitably linked with the present.

Self-sacrifice for in-group's history: A diachronic perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Babińska ◽  
Michal Bilewicz
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Emotional Events ◽  
Reciprocal Process ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe problem of extended fusion and identification can be approached from a diachronic perspective. Based on our own research, as well as findings from the fields of social, political, and clinical psychology, we argue that the way contemporary emotional events shape local fusion is similar to the way in which historical experiences shape extended fusion. We propose a reciprocal process in which historical events shape contemporary identities, whereas contemporary identities shape interpretations of past traumas.

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