Historiography and Identity IV

Writing History Across Medieval Eurasia

Edited by Walter Pohl Edited by Daniel Mahoney

Book cover: Historiography and Identity IV

Extent: 377 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Medieval Studies

Series: Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Series volume number: 30

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(September 2021)

ISBN: 9782503586588

Price: $125.00

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Historical writing has shaped identities in various ways and to different extents. This volume explores this multiplicity by looking at case studies from Europe, Byzantium, the Islamic World, and China around the turn of the first millennium. The chapters in this volume address official histories and polemical critique, traditional genres and experimental forms, ancient traditions and emerging territories, empires and barbarians. The authors do not take the identities highlighted in the texts for granted, but examine the complex strategies of identification that they employ. This volume thus explores how historiographical works in diverse contexts construct and shape identities, as well as legitimate political claims and communicate ‘visions of community’.

  • Edited by Walter Pohl
  • Edited by Daniel Mahoney