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Book SynopsisLandscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past offers a comprehensive assessment of new directions in the historiography of West Africa. With twenty-four chapters by leading researchers in the study of West African history and cultures, the volume examines the main trends in multiple fields including the critical interpretation of Arabic sources; new archaeological surveys of trans-Saharan trade; the discovery of sources in Latin America relating to pan-Atlantic histories; and the continuing analysis of oral histories. The volume is dedicated to Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, whose work inspired the intellectual reorientations discussed in its chapters and stands as the clearest formulation of the book’s central focus on the relationship between political conjunctures and the production of sources. Contributors are: Benjamin Acloque, Karin Barber, Seydou Camara, Mamadou Diawara, Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, François-Xavier Fauvelle, Nikolas Gestrich, Toby Green, Bruce Hall, Jan Jansen, Shamil Jeppie, Daouda Keita, Murray Last, Robin Law, Camille Lefebvre, Paul Lovejoy, Ghislaine Lydon, Carlos Magnavita, Sonja Magnavita, Kevin MacDonald, Thomas McCaskie, Ann McDougall, Daniela Moreau, Mauro Nobili, Insa Nolte, Abel-Wedoud Ould-Cheikh, Benedetta Rossi, Charles Stewart.Trade Review[...] The editors have done a very good job of bringing together a wide range of scholars to engage with Moraes Farias’ ideas and give them new life. This book is a useful and welcome contribution that overcomes traditional disciplinary divides and makes for a very fitting tribute to this great scholar and his work.[...] Sirio Canós-Donnay, Institute of Heritage Sciencies, Spanish National Research Council, in African Archaeology Review (2020) 37:315–316Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction Part 1: Archaeology and Material Landscapes 1 All that Glitters is not Gold: Facing the Myths of Ancient Trade between North and Sub-Saharan Africa  Sonja Magnavita and Carlos Magnavita 2 African Archaeology and the ‘Chalk Line Effect’: A Consideration of Māli City and Siğilmāsa  François-Xavier Fauvelle 3 The ‘Pays Dô’ and the Origins of the Empire of Mali  Kevin C. MacDonald, Nikolas Gestrich, Seydou Camara, Daouda Keita Part 2: Imagined Landscapes and Moral Topographies 4 Imitation and Creativity in the Establishment of Islam in Oyo  Insa Nolte 5 Fante ‘Origins’: The Problematic Evidence of ‘Tradition’  Robin Law 6 The Unknowns of the Modern Era in the Greater Western Sahara: Reassessing the Territorial Location of the Wlād Dlaym (15th–17th Centuries)  Benjamin Acloque 7 The Almoravids and Ašʿarism: Regarding the Work of al-Murādī al-Ḥaḍramī  Abdel Wedoud Ould-Cheikh Part 3: Contextualising Writing and Written Sources 8 Inscribing the Now and the Hereafter: First Writings in Early African History  Ghislaine Lydon 9 New Reinventions of the Sahel: Reflections on the Taʾrīḫ Genre in the Timbuktu Historiographical Production, Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries  Mauro Nobili 10 Calibrating the Scholarship of Timbuktu  Charles C. Stewart 11 Rethinking the Place of Timbuktu in the Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa  Bruce S. Hall 12 Two Examples of Sahelian Book Collectors Over Two Centuries  Shamil Jeppie Part 4: Contextualising Orature and Traditionalists 13 The Time-Tested Traditionist: Intellectual Trajectory and Mediation from the Early Empires to the Present day  Mamadou Diawara 14 The Next Generation: Young Griots’ Quest for Authority  Jan Jansen 15 In Praise of History; History as Praise  Karin Barber 16 From Essentialism to Pluralisms: New Directions in Precolonial West African History from the Oral History Archive at Fajara, the Gambia  Toby Green 17 Dreamworlds: Cultural Narrative in Asante Visionary Experience  Thomas C. McCaskie Part 5: Projects, Texts, and Representations 18 The Life of a Text: Carsten Niebuhr and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aġa’s Das innere von Afrika  Camille Lefebvre 19 The Kano Chronicle Revisited  Paul E. Lovejoy 20 Slavery or Death in Sokoto and Borno: Tactics, Legalities and Sources  Murray Last 21 A Story of Exile, a Story in Exile: Louis Hunkanrin, Mauritania and ‘Un Forfait Colonial’ (Revisited)  E. Ann McDougall 22 Edmond Fortier (1862–1928): Photographer, Documentarian and Creator of Stereotypes in West Africa  Daniela Moreau Afterword: Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias’ Publications and Interview  Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias Interpreting Sources of the African Past: An Interview with Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias by  Benedetta Rossi

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Book SynopsisIn Caesar's Civil War: Historical Reality and Fabrication, Westall combines literary analysis of Caesar’s Bellum Civile with a concern for the socio-economic history of the Roman empire. The Bellum Gallicum and the Shakespearean play are better known, but Caesar’s partisan account of the Roman civil war culminating in the battle of Pharsalus offers a historical text of perennial interest and relevance. Two introductory chapters contextualize this book and offer a traditional narrative of political and military history for 49-48 BCE. There follow seven chapters that are dedicated to each of the geographical theatres of civil war. These chapters show how Caesar’s testimony sheds important light upon the nature of Roman rule in the Mediterranean, but also explore the problems to be encountered in using potentially tendentious testimony.Trade Review"[Westall] geht es nicht um die bloße Darstellung der Ereignisse durch Caesar und andere als vielmehr darum, die in den diversen Regionen liegenden – häufig wirtschaftlich bedingten – römischen Interessen namhaft zu machen, die ebenso historisch verankert sind wie im aktuellen Bürgerkrieg für die beteiligten Parteien besondere Brisanz gewinnen. Zugleich entzaubert W[estall] Caesars tendenziöse Berichterstattung in prägnanten Interpretationen, teilweise anhand scharfsinniger Quellenvergleiche. (...) Unter Herausstellung der Bedeutung bestimmter geographischer Räume im Gefolge der Bürgerkriegsdarstellung Caesars erlauben W[estall]s Kontextualisierungsbemühungen interessante Einsichten auf verschiedenen Ebenen, die durch Überlegungen zur sozioökonomischen Lage Roms verbunden werden." Ulrich Lambrecht, Gymnasium 126, 2019. "To sum up, W[estall] has provided a fresh and masterful analysis of Caesar’s civil war commentary. His study offers new and valuable insights into the history of the period. Careful attention is paid at every turn to Caesar’s method of justifying his actions as a response to supposed stubborn and unreasonable resistance on the part of his opponents. The author’s application of critical methods yields interesting and important results. The structure of the book makes it accessible to a broad range of readers, from someone new to the subject to an advanced scholar. By offering a narrative overview of the war in Chapter 2 and then segmenting the campaigns chronologically and geographically in the seven subsequent chapters, the book succeeds in exploring a complex set of questions with perfect clarity. This book is a credit to the author and to the series in which it appeared. Every university library should include this book in its holdings, and every scholar who studies this period of Roman history will gain from W[estall's] fresh insight into Caesar’s Bellum Civile." John T. Ramsey, Histos 14, 2020, xxxv-xliv.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Maps List of Block Quotations Abbreviations 1 Introduction 2 The Civil War of 49–48 BCE 3 Italia  Introduction  1 Crossing the Rubicon  2 Opening the Sanctius Aerarium  3 The Sources of Soldiers  Conclusion 4 Hispania  1 Laudes Hispaniae  2 C. Caesar and Hispania  3 Cn. Pompeius and Hispania  4 The Significance of Clientelae 5 Gallia  1 Omnis Gallia Germaniaque  2 Massilia an Ally  3 Massilia a Provincial Capital?  4 Geopolitical Considerations  5 Chagrin at Massilia  6 Massilia and Phocaea, or the Theme of Libertas 6 Africa  Introduction  1 The Sources of Caesar’s Narrative  2 Legitimacy of Command  3 Roman Armies in North Africa  4 The Grain of Africa  Conclusion 7 Macedonia  1 Caesar Fleeing Forwards  2 Pompeius’ Preparations for 48 BCE  3 Life in the Military  4 Other Than Soldiers  5 Supply-Lines  6 The Provincial Burden 8 Asia  1 From Pharsalus to Alexandria  2 Ephesus Capital of Asia  3 The Ceremony and Rhetoric of Arrival  4 Caesar and the Sanctuary of Artemis of Ephesus 9 Aegyptus  1 Of Civil Wars Roman and Egyptian  2 The Wealth of Egypt  3 Banking and Imperialism Conclusion Weights, Measures, and Currencies Maps: Theatres of War in 49–48 BCE Bibliography Index of Ancient Sources Index of Modern Authors General Index

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Book SynopsisIn City Views in the Habsburg and Medici Courts, Ryan E. Gregg relates how Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Duke Cosimo I of Tuscany employed city view artists such as Anton van den Wyngaerde and Giovanni Stradano to aid in constructing authority. These artists produced a specific style of city view that shared affinity with Renaissance historiographic practice in its use of optical evidence and rhetorical techniques. History has tended to see city views as accurate recordings of built environments. Bringing together ancient and Renaissance texts, archival material, and fieldwork in the depicted locations, Gregg demonstrates that a close-knit school of city view artists instead manipulated settings to help persuade audiences of the truthfulness of their patrons’ official narratives.Trade Review“densely informative, intelligently written and richly researched.” Valeria Manfrè, Universidad de Valladolid. In: Imago Mundi, Vol. 72, No. 1 (2020), p. 75-76. “ein höchst anregendes, mit großer Sorgfalt und Umsicht gearbeitetes Werk mit reichhaltiger Bibliographie und Register.” Ferdinand Opll, Universität Wien. In: Wiener Geschichtsblätter, 74. Jahrgang, Heft 3 (2019), S. 329-331.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Witnessing Sovereignty: Anton van den Wyngaerde’s City Views as Habsburg Courtly Propaganda  1 The Archival Material: Their Evidentiary Problems and Indications  2 Eyewitness to History: The Habsburg Use of City Views  3 Genoa: City View as History and as Impresa  4 Cantecroy, Mechelen, and the English Palaces: Claims of Dominion  5 Brussels and Utrecht: Demonstrations of Sovereignty  6 The Italian Views: Van den Wyngaerde in the Imperial Train  7 Ancona and Lyon  8 Conclusion 2 The Antwerp School of City Views  1 Fertile Foundations  2 The Catalyst: Charles V’s Entry into Rome  3 Technique, Style, and Viewing Experiences  4 Coalition  5 Contemporary Recognition  6 Conclusion 3 Vasari, Historiography, and the Rhetoric of City Views  1 History, Truthfulness, and Setting  2 The Tropes of Enargeia: Sieges, Ships, and City Views  3 Viewing City Towers: Vision, Cognition, and Simulacra  4 Nature or Artifice? The Mannerism of Antwerp School City Views  5 City Views as Analogy for Judgment  6 Enargeia and Eyewitnessing in Vasari’s Historiographic Practice  7 Vasari’s Description of City View Methodology: a Verbal Artist Figure  8 Borghini’s New Historiography and the City Views  9 Conclusion 4 Defining Ducal Dominion: Giovanni Stradano’s City Views in the Apartment of Leo X  1 The Room of Giovanni delle Bande Nere  2 The Room of Clement VII  3 The Room of Cosimo I  4 Conclusion Coda: Heirs to Dominion  1 Heirs to Patronage Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRichard Pipes and Marc Raeff were two of the most prolific and influential historians of Russia that America ever produced. They met at Harvard in 1946 and went on, for most of the following six decades, to debate history, share ideas, comment on each other's work, and inspire one another intellectually. In Pillars of the Profession: The Correspondence of Richard Pipes and Marc Raeff, Jonathan Daly presents the 158 letters these scholars and friends exchanged from 1948 until 2007. Thoughtful introductory and concluding essays, detailed annotations, a wealth of photographs and other illustrations, a chronology of major events, and four maps make this volume an important addition to Russian historiography.Trade Review"Pillars of the Profession is very much a book about scholars for scholars, but at the same time it raises in my mind some broader questions about the nature of the profession of Russian history." - Paul Robinson on Irrussianality, October 2018 [Full review text: https://irrussianality.wordpress.com/2018/10/23/book-review-pillars-of-the-profession/?fbclid=IwAR1x__BMDwW8RV3Ct7ghBW1U1bgci7x5BBi7IhBZR165DGNVK6CptDucugo]Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Letters A Note about the Text Chronology of Events Introduction 1 The Early Years 2 Uncertainty and Travel: Seattle, Berkeley, Paris 3 Mature Friendship Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this collected volume fourteen experts in the fields of Classics and Ancient History study the textual strategies used by Herodotus and Livy when recounting the disastrous battles at Thermopylae and Cannae. Literary, linguistic and historical approaches are used (often in combination) in order to enhance and enrich the interpretation of the accounts, which for obvious reasons confronted the authors with a special challenge. Chapters drawing a comparison with other battle narratives and with other genres help to establish genre-specific elements in ancient historiography, and draw attention to the particular techniques employed by Herodotus and Livy in their war narratives.Trade Review"[T]his volume contains many substantial papers and reflects high standards of scholarship: in addition to examining their chosen themes, many of the papers offer wider reflection on methodological questions. The introduction likewise introduces methodological considerations, providing a short introduction to narratology and discourse linguistics. (...) this volume, which will prove useful to scholars examining the Thermopylae and Cannae narratives from a large variety of perspectives." Edith Foster, BMCR, 2019.11.15.Table of ContentsPreface Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Lidewij van Gils, Irene de Jong and Caroline Kroon Part 1 Thermopylae 2 Thermopylae: Herodotus versus the Legend  Hans van Wees 3 A Narratological Comparison of Herodotus and Diodorus on Thermopylae  Mathieu de Bakker 4 Narrative and Identity in Thermopylae (Herodotus 7.201–7.239)  Antonis Tsakmakis 5 Herodotus’ Handling of (Narratological) Time in the Thermopylae Passage  Irene J.F. de Jong 6 Herodotus and Thucydides: Distance and Immersion  Rutger Allan Part 2 Cannae 7 Livy on Cannae: a Literary Overview  Stephen Oakley 8 Discourse-Linguistic Strategies in Livy’s Account of the Battle at Cannae  Lidewij van Gils and Caroline Kroon 9 Who Knows What Will Happen Next? Livy’s fraus Punica from a Literary Point of View  Dennis Pausch 10 Livy’s Use of Spatial References in the Cannae Episode: from Structure to Strategy  Lidewij van Gils 11 ET RATIO ET RES: Characterization of Roman Conduct through Speech Representation in the Battle of Cannae  Michel Buijs 12 Words When It’s Time for Action: Representations of Speech and Thought in the Battles of Cannae and Zama  Suzanne Adema Part 3 Beyond Thermopylae and Cannae 13 Thermopylae and Cannae: How One Battle Narrative Enriches Another  Mathieu de Bakker and Michiel van der Keur 14 The Great and the Small: Thermopylae and Sphacteria  Adriaan Rademaker 15 Force, Frequency and Focalisation: the Function of Similes in the Battle Narrative of Vergil, Aeneid 10  Stephen Harrison 16 Parallel Plotlines: the Function of Similes in the Battle-Narrative of Vergil, Aeneid 10 (2)  Michiel van der Keur Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Arab Thieves, Peter Webb critically explores the classic tales of pre-Islamic Arabian outlaws in Arabic Literature. A group of Arabian camel-rustlers became celebrated figures in Muslim memories of pre-Islam, and much poetry ascribed to them and stories about their escapades grew into an outlaw tradition cited across Arabic literature. The ninth/fifteenth-century Egyptian historian al-Maqrīzī arranged biographies of ten outlaws into a chapter on ‘Arab Thieves’ in his wide-ranging history of the world before Muhammad. This volume presents the first critical edition of al-Maqrīzī’s text with a fully annotated English translation, alongside a detailed study that interrogates the outlaw lore to uncover the ways in which Arabic writers constructed outlaw identities and how al-Maqrīzī used the tales to communicate his vision of pre-Islam. Via an exhaustive survey of early Arabic sources about the outlaws and comparative readings with outlaw traditions in other world literatures, The Arab Thieves reveals how Arabic literature crafted lurid narratives about criminality and employed them to tell ancient Arab history.Table of ContentsList of Plates and Tables Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1 Study of the Arab Thieves 1 Outlaw Literature 2 “Arab Thieves”: Establishing a Category  2.1 Ṣuʿlūk/Ṣaʿālīk  2.2 Fātik/Futtāk  2.3 Liṣṣ/Luṣūṣ  2.4 The Runners  2.5 The Arab Ravens  2.6 Lions and Wolves  2.7 Thievery Semantics: Conclusions 3 Thieves and Arab History  3.1 Outlaws and Arabness in the Third/Ninth Century  3.2 Outlaws and Arabness in the Fourth/Tenth Century  3.3 The Ayyubid- and Mamluk-Eras  3.4 al-Maqrīzī and His Luṣūṣ al-ʿArab 4 Contemporary Outlaws: Criminality in al-Maqrīzī’s Own World 5 Al-Maqrīzī’s Manuscript: Its Conceptual, Narrative and Physical Structure  5.1 The Thieves  5.2 Narrative Structure  5.3 The Book 6 The Sources  6.1 Dictionaries and the List of ‘Arab Thieves’  6.2 Al-Maqrīzī’s Sources: Overview  6.3 Al-Maqrīzī’s Copying Style: Case Studies  6.4 Al-Maqrīzī and Outlaw Poetry: Specialised Collections  6.5 Sources: Conclusions 7 Concluding Remarks Plates Part 2 Critical Edition and Translation The Holograph The Translation Abbreviations and Symbols Text and Translation of al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-baṣar, vol. V, Sections 1–2: the Arab Thieves Section on the Arabs’ Religions before Islam Section on the Arab Hussies Section on the Arab Thieves  ʿAmr of the Dog  Taʾabbaṭa Šarran  Al-Šanfará  Al-Sulayk b. al-Sulakah al-Saʿdī  Al-Muntašir  Awfá b. Maṭar al-Māzinī  ʿAmr b. Barrāqah  Al-Uḥaymir  Niẓām  Yazīd Bibliography List of Quoted Manuscripts Index of Verses Index of Names (People and Places) Index of Quoted Titles in al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar Index of Sources in al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar Index of Glosses Index of Technical Terms Facsimile of MS Fatih 4340 (Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi), fols. Ia–b, 1a–3b, 4*a–b, 4a–9b, 10*a–b, 10a–15b

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Book SynopsisThe Fozu tongji by Zhipan (ca. 1220-1275) is a key text of Chinese Buddhist historiography. In the present volume Thomas Jülch presents his translation of the first five juan of the massive annalistic part. Rich annotations clarify the backgrounds to the historiographic contents, presented by Zhipan in a highly essentialized style. For the historical traditions the sources Zhipan refers to are meticulously identified. In those cases where the accounts presented are inaccurate or imprecise, Jülch points out how the relevant matter is depicted in the sources Zhipan relies on. With this carefully annotated translation of Fozu tongji, juan 34-38, Thomas Jülch enables an indepth understanding of a key text of Chinese Buddhist historiography.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Introduction Preliminary Remarks Translation Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 1 Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 2  Supplements for Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 1 and 2 Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 3  Supplements for Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 3 Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 4 Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 5 Glossary of Sanskrit and Pāli Terms Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisKnowledge and Profanation offers numerous instances of profoundly religious polemicists profanizing other religions ad majorem gloriam Dei, as well as sincere adherents of their own religion, whose reflective scholarly undertakings were perceived as profanizing transgressions – occasionally with good reason. In the history of knowledge of religion and profanation unintended consequences often play a decisive role. Can too much knowledge of religion be harmful? Could the profanation of a foreign religion turn out to be a double-edged sword? How much profanating knowledge of other religions could be tolerated in a premodern world? In eleven contributions, internationally renowned scholars analyze cases of learned profanation, committed by scholars ranging from the Italian Renaissance to the early nineteenth century, as well as several antique predecessors. Contributors are: Asaph Ben-Tov, Ulrich Groetsch, Andreas Mahler, Karl Morrison, Martin Mulsow, Anthony Ossa-Richardson, Wolfgang Spickermann, Riccarda Suitner, John Woodbridge, Azzan Yadin, and Holger Zellentin.Table of ContentsContents Notes on the Editors Notes on the ContributorsIi Introduction  Martin Mulsow and Asaph Ben-Tov Part 1: The Sacred and the Profane in Art, Literature and Parody 1 Lucian of Samosata on Magic and Superstition  Wolfgang Spickermann 2 Rabbi Lazarus and the Rich Man: A Talmudic Parody of the Late Roman Hell (Yerushalmi Hagigah 2.2, 77d and Sanhedrin 6.9, 23c)  Holger Zellentin 3 Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti’s Call for Reform of Christian Art  Karl F. Morrison 4 The Sacred Becomes Profane – The Profane Becomes Sacred: Observations on the Desubstantialisation of Religious Discourse in the Early Modern Age  Andreas Mahler Part 2: Early Modern European Knowledge about Pagan Religion 5 The Seventeenth Century Confronts the Gods: Bishop Huet, Moses, and the Dangers of Comparison  Martin Mulsow 6 The Eleusinian Mysteries in the Age of Reason  Asaph Ben-Tov Part 3: Crossing the Boundaries in Biblical Scholarship: Ancient Preconditions and Early Modern Conflict 7 Athens and Jerusalem? Early Jewish Biblical Scholarship and the Pagan World  Azzan Yadin-Israel 8 Richard Simon and the Charenton Bible Project: The Quest for ‘Perfect Neutrality’ in Interpreting Scripture  John Woodbridge 9 The Devil in the Details: The Case of Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694–1768)  Ulrich Groetsch Part 4: Scientific Knowledge and Religion 10 Cry Me a Relic: The Holy Tear of Vendôme and Early Modern Lipsanomachy  Anthony Ossa-Richardson 11 The Powerlessness of the Devil: Scientific Knowledge and Demonology in Clemente Baroni Cavalcabò (1726–1796)  Riccarda Suitner Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains the edition and translation of the chapter of al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar dealing with Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Franks, and Goths. This chapter is, for the most part, an almost exact reproduction of Ibn Ḫaldūn’s Kitāb al-ʿIbar, from which al-Maqrīzī derived material from many other sources, including prominent Christian sources such as Kitāb Hurūšiyūš, Ibn al-ʿAmīd’s History, and works by Muslim historians like Ibn al-Aṯīr’s Kāmil. Therefore, this chapter of al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar is a continuation of the previous Arabic historiographical tradition, in which European history is integrated into world history through the combination of Christian and Islamic sources.

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Book SynopsisIn this publication Fleur Kemmers gives an overview of 21st century scholarship on Roman coinage for students and scholars in the fields of ancient history and Roman archaeology. First, it addresses the study of numismatics as a discipline and the theoretical and methodological advances of the last decades. Secondly, it provides guidelines on how to consult numismatic reference works, including those available online. Recent scholarly approaches and insights in the functions of Roman coins as both vehicles of political communication and instruments for state payments are critically assessed. Furthermore, the publication reviews the evidence for a conscious monetary policy on the part of the Roman authorities. Finally, the impact of Roman expansion and imperialism on monetisation and coin use in Rome´s Empire is discussed.Trade Review"The volume is clearly written and contains high quality colour illustrations. In a piece of such small size it is difficult to cover all scholarship in the field, but Kemmers does an admirable job in presenting a picture of Roman numismatics as it was in 2019. (...) this essay offers a readable and detailed introduction to scholarship on a wide range of developments within Roman numismatics; scholars beginning research in the field would do well to begin their reading here." - Clare Rowan, University of Warwick, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2021.02.17 "At the outset, I can only strongly recommend that anyone with an interest in the Roman world should read this work. This excellent book should be required reading for anyone embarking on historical or archaeological research in the Roman world. It will stand alongside such works as P. Grierson’s Numismatics (1975), J. Casey’s Understanding Ancient Coins (1987) and C. Howgego’s Ancient History from Coins (1995), in addition to numerous works on applied numismatics by R. Reece, largely summarised in Roman Coins and Archaeology (2003). K. has shown that numismatics has risen to many of the challenges set by Jones in 1956 and can no longer be regarded as a merely peripheral subject of occasional utility to the Classicist, historian and archaeologist." - Sam Moorhead, in: The Classical Review 71.2 580–582 ''With this volume, Kemmers has ensured that the results of many exciting new studies will be brought to the attention of scholars both within the numismatic community and in the wider disciplines of archaeology and history, a laudable initiative that hopefully continues to gain momentum to inspire similar studies in the future.'' - Marta Barbato, in: Latomus vol. 79.3 (2020) ''Kemmers’ survey is lucid and does an excellent job in drawing out from the flurry of competing publications the overall themes and directions driving the field.'' - James Corke-Webster, in: Greece & Rome 68.1: 135-148 (April 2021)Table of ContentsThe Functions and Use of Roman Coinage: An Overview of 21st Century Scholarship  Fleur Kemmers  Abstract  Keywords  1 Introduction  2 Methodological, Theoretical, and Technological Developments  3 Structuring the Material  4 Coins as a Means of Communication  5 Coins as Monetary Instruments  6 Use of Coinage  7 Concluding Remarks  Acknowledgements  References

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Book SynopsisThis book offers students and scholars an introduction to and insight into the wealth of historiographies produced in various Muslim milieus. Four articles deal with the classical period: archaeology and history in early Islamic Amman; an analysis of sources dealing with Muwaḥḥid North Africa; al-Maqrizī’s prosopographical production; the rise of early Ottoman historiography. Three examine sacred history as historiography: in 10th century Fatimid Egypt; in the 16th century Indian Chishtī Sufi milieu; and in the Sino-Muslim Confucian tradition in Qing China. The final two articles provide fresh approaches to historiography by respectively looking into the sijils of Ottoman Cairo as historical sources and by highlighting the regional approach to the writing of the history of the Indian Ocean. Contributors: Frédéric Bauden, Heather J. Empey, Derryl MacLean, Sami G. Massoud, Murat Cem Mengüç, Reem Meshal, Hyondo Park, Patricia Risso, Shafique N. Virani and Michael Wood.Trade Review“Aposiopesis, Anagnorisis as the transference of recognition from character to reader and spectator, the whole array of articles provide a scholastic reader with plenty of information for further research on Language, Poetry and Prose.” Stavros Nikolaidis in:Journal of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 30 (2021).Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Sami G. Massoud Part 1: Classical Historiography 1 Continuity and Change in Early Islamic Amman  Michael Wood 2 Mashriqī Historians on the Muwaḥḥid Persecution of the Jews and Christians: New Sources for an Old Debate  Heather J. Empey 3 Al-Maqrīzī and His al-Tārīkh al-kabīr al-muqaffā li-Miṣr. Part 1: an Inquiry into the History of the Work  Frédéric Bauden 4 Bringing the Past Together: Ahmedi’s Narrative of Ottoman History and Two Later Texts  Murat Cem Mengüç Part 2: Sacred History 5 Hierohistory in Qāḍī l-Nuʿmān’s Foundation of Symbolic Interpretation (Asās al-Ta‌ʾwīl): the Birth of Jesus  Shafique N. Virani 6 Shaping a Millennial Historiography in Persianate South Asia: the Sīrat of Bandagī Miyān Shāh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān  Derryl N. MacLean 7 From a Persian Barbarian to a Superior Sage to Chinese Sages: the Image of the Prophet in Ma Zhu’s Shengzan  Hyondo Park Part 3: Perspectives 8 The Documented Life: the Emergence of a Civil Law for Proto-Citizens in Ottoman Cairo  Reem Meshal 9 The Geography of Historiography: West Asia as a Sub-Region of the Indian Ocean  Patricia Risso Index

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Book SynopsisIn American History in Transition, Yoshinari Yamaguchi provides fresh insights into early efforts in American history writing, ranging from Jeremy Belknap’s Massachusetts Historical Society to Emma Willard’s geographic history and Francis Parkman’s history of deep time to Henry Adams’s thermodynamic history. Although not a well-organized set of professional researchers, these historians shared the same concern: the problems of temporalization and secularization in history writing. As the time-honored framework of sacred history was gradually outdated, American historians at that time turned to individual facts as possible evidence for a new generalization, and tried different “scientific” theories to give coherency to their writings. History writing was in its transitional phase, shifting from religion to science, deduction to induction, and static to dynamic worldview.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Illustrations Introduction: America and History 1 “A Republic of Letters”: Organizing Historical Knowledge in Early National America  1 No Document, No History  2 Collection, Preservation and Publication  3 The Republic of Letters, or a Network of Historiographical Fraternity  4 Many Documents, Many Histories 2 Natural History Turned National History: Unity and Uniqueness in Jeremy Belknap's Federalist Historiography  1 The Third Volume of The History of New-Hampshire  2 Natural History Turned National History  3 Honeybees and Fiddlers: National Unity or Individual Uniqueness  4 History Writing and the Building of the Federal Republic  5 Satire in History 3 The Biographer's (Sub)Voice: Historical Objectivity and Interpretive Imagination in Jared Sparks's Documentary History  1 Erudition or Narrative  2 Document Hunter and Blocked Historian  3 The Editor's Duty/Liberty  4 The Biographer's (Sub)Voice  5 Filiopietism, Blasphemy, or... 4 American Geographic History: Visibility and Timelessness in Emma Willard's ``Progressive Maps'' and ``History in Perspective''  1 Geography and History  2 The Tradition of American Geographic History  3 History and Geography Education in Nineteenth-Century America  4 Visible and Timeless History: Emma Willard's ``Temple of Time'' and ``History in Perspective''  5 The Problem of American Historicity 5 The Traveling Historian: Spatiality and Panoramic Abstraction in Francis Parkman's Writings  1 Travel and History  2 Parkman's Research Trip for History Writing  3 The Spatiality of The Conspiracy of Pontiac  4 The Effects of a Traveler: Cartography, History, and Panoramic Abstraction  5 Space of History 6 Slow and Long History: Geology and the Idea of History in Nineteenth-Century America  1 Historical Associations, the ``Retarding'' Text, and Natural-Historical Longue Durée  2 Geology in Nineteenth-Century America  3 The Geological Scale Enlargement and the Arguments from Analogy 7 History in Depth: Geological Imagination and the Memories of the Landmass  1 Geology and the Temporalization of History  2 Geological Connections  3 Geological Imaginations in Parkman's Historical Writings  4 Geological Deep Time and the Nation-State's Time 8 Toward the Impersonality of History: Inductive Reasoning and the Problem of the Individual in Henry Adams's Physicist History  1 Science and Historical Studies  2 The Problem of the Individual  3 The Solution and Sublimation of the Individual  4 Open Endings Conclusion: the Temporalization of American History Appendix I: A List of Characters in Jeremy Belknap, The Foresters Appendix II: Francis Parkman's Historical Writings: an Overview Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisSince its appearance in 1981, History as a Science by Jan van der Dussen has been welcomed as a coherent and comprehensive study of the many aspects of Collingwood’s philosophy of history, including its development and reception. The book was the first to pay attention to Collingwood’s unpublished manuscripts, and to his work as an archaeologist and historian, herewith opening up a new angle in Collingwood studies. The republication of this volume meets an increasing demand to make the book available for future Collingwood scholars, and people interested in Collingwood’s philosophy. The present edition of History as a Science includes updated references to the published manuscripts and an added preface.Trade Review"It is no longer true to say that history as a science has been neglected, and this is due largely to Dussen. History as a Science is a mighty work [...].", Christopher Fear Old Problems Re-opened. R. G. Collingwood and the History of Ideas, p. 66. "Dussen puts his case powerfully, and what he shows rather brilliantly is that what Collingwood says about history fits with what he says about mind; and that critics cannot complete their attacks on Collingwood’s philosophy of history without taking that philosophy of mind into account." Christopher Fear Old Problems Re-opened. R. G. Collingwood and the History of Ideas, p. 129.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements (1980) Abbreviations 1 Introduction  1.1 Collingwood’s Reception  1.2 Collingwood’s Development  1.3 Design of the Book 2 The Development of Collingwood’s Thought on History  2.1 From Religion and Philosophy to Speculum Mentis  2.2 Collingwood and Realism  2.3 History: From Realism to Idealism  2.4 History and Science  2.5 History as Process 3 The Idea of History and Its Discussion  3.1 The Philosophy of History in Collingwood’s Later Years  3.2 The Idea of History  3.3 The Discussion of The Idea of History 4 Collingwood’s Unpublished Manuscripts  4.1 Introduction  4.2 History and Realism: the Writings before 1926  4.3 ‘Preliminary Discussion’ (1927)  4.4 Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1926)  4.5 Outlines of a Philosophy of History (1928)  4.6 Collingwood’s Development  4.7 Lectures on the Philosophy of History: 1929–1932  4.8 ‘Reality as History’ (1935)  4.9 Notes on the History of Historiography and Philosophy of History (1936)  4.10 Notes on Historiography (1938–1939)  4.11 Folklore (1936–1937)  4.12 Metaphysics and Cosmology (1933–1934) 5 Collingwood as an Archaeologist and Historian  5.1 Introduction  5.2 Archaeology  5.3 Hadrian’s Wall  5.4 History of Roman Britain 6 The Historical Object  6.1 Action  6.2 Collingwood’s Philosophy of Mind  6.3 Historical Process 7 Historical Method  7.1 History as a Science  7.2 Evidence  7.3 Question and Answer  7.4 Intuition 8 Some Controversial Issues  8.1 Past and Present  8.2 History as the Re-enactment of Past Thought  8.3 Corporate Mind  8.4 ‘Unconscious’ Action  8.5 Causality and Objective Conditions  8.6 General Knowledge  8.7 Explanation and Understanding  8.8 Historical Objectivity 9 History and Other Sciences  9.1 History and Natural Science  9.2 History and the Social Sciences 10 History and Practice  10.1 Introduction  10.2 Psychology  10.3 The Use of History Appendix 1: Lectures Given by R.G. Collingwood Appendix 2: Reports by R.G. Collingwood to the Faculty of Literae Humaniores Appendix 3: Letters from R.G. Collingwood Bibliography 1: List of Manuscripts of R.G. Collingwood Bibliography 2: Works by R.G. Collingwood Bibliography 3: Reviews of Works by R.G. Collingwood Bibliography 4: Works by Others

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Book SynopsisChinese Visions of Progress, 1895 to 1949 offers a panoramic view of reflections on progress in modern China. Since the turn of the twentieth century, the discourses on progress shape Chinese understandings of modernity and its pitfalls. As this in-depth study shows, these discourses play a pivotal role in the fields of politics, society, culture, as well as philosophy, history, and literature. It is therefore no exaggeration to say that the Chinese ideas of progress, their often highly optimistic implications, but also the criticism of modernity they offered, opened the gateway for reflections on China’s past, its position in the present world, and its future course.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction: Progress, History, and Time in Chinese Discourses after the 1890s  Thomas Fröhlich Part 1: Initial Conceptual Encounters 1 The Chinese Concept of “Progress”  Kai Vogelsang 2 The Progress of Civilization and Confucianism in Modern East Asia: Fukuzawa Yukichi and Different Forms of Enlightenment  Takahiro Nakajima Part 2: Tides of Optimism 3 The Idea of Progress in Modern China: the Case of Yan Fu  Li Qiang 4 Prospect Optimism in Modern China: the Formation of a Political Paradigm  Thomas Fröhlich 5 An Anatomy of the Utopian Impulse in Modern Chinese Political Thought, 1890–1940  Peter Zarrow 6 The Optimism of Cultural Construction in the 1930s: Wholesale Westernization, Cultural Unit Theory, and Cultural Construction on a Chinese Base  Leigh Jenco 7 Fantasizing Science: the Idea of Progress in Early Chinese Science Fiction (1905–1920)  Rui Kunze Part 2: Margins of Skepticism 8 Critiques of Progress: Reflections on Chinese Conservatism  Axel Schneider 9 Playing the Same Old Tricks: Lu Xun’s Reflections on Modernity in His Essay “Modern History”  Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik Index

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Book SynopsisStaging History unites essays by nine specialists in the field of late medieval and early Renaissance drama. Their focus is on English, Dutch and Humanist German drama, as well as on a modern Swiss adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V. Featuring prominently in this book are plays by, among others, John Bale, Jacob Schoepper, Johannes Agricola and Jacob Duym. Special attention is also paid to the Croxton Play of the Sacrament and the Dutch abele spelen. So far this topic has not received wide attention within the world of medieval and early Renaissance studies. This exploration aims at arousing more interest in this field by scholars working on European drama from the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction   Peter Happé and Wim Hüsken 1 From Mrs Noah’s “Rok” to Absalom’s “Kultour”  The Trail of the Spinning Woman and the Great Rising of 1381   Heather Hill 2 Laying with the Past  History in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament and King Johan   Thomas Betteridge 3 Historical Elements in Bale’s Plays   Peter Happé 4 History in the Long Shadow of Allegory  Revisiting the Morality Heritag   Richard Hillman 5 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall … History in Late Medieval Drama from the Low Countries   Wim Hüsken 6 “An Easy Commerce of the Old and New”  Rhetoricians and the Use of the Past   Elsa Strietman 7 Staging Reformation as History – Three Exemplary Cases  Agricola, Hartmann, Kielmann   Cora Dietl 8 Dramatising History in Schoepper’s Ioannes Decollatus and Grimald’s Archipropheta   Mike Pincombe 9 Helvetic Henry? A Swiss Adaptation of Henry V, or Something Near Enough   Elisabeth Dutton Index

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Book SynopsisA Handbook of Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Periods presents 16 studies about modern Arab academic scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Worlds covering disciplines as diverse as Assyriology and Mamluk studies as well as historiographical schools in the Arab World. This unique work is the first of its kind in any language. It is an important resource for scholars and students of the Ancient Near East and North Africa, Classical and Byzantine studies, and medieval Islamic history who would like to learn more about the work done by their colleagues in the Arab World in these fields over the last 7 decades and to benefit from Arabic secondary sources in their research. دليل الدراسات العربية الحديثة حول العصور القديمة والوسيطة يحتوي هذا الكتاب على 61 بحثا حول الدراسات الأكاديمية المتعلّقة بتاريخ العصور القديمة والوسيطة في العالم العربي، وتغطي هذه الأبحاث تخصصات علمية متنوعة منها الدراسات المسمارية والدراسات المملوكية، إضافةً إلى بعض المدارس التاريخية العربية المعاصرة. الكتاب فريد من نوعه والأول في كافة اللغات، ويُشكّل مصدرا هاما للباحثين والطلبة في دراسات الشرق الأدنى القديم وشمال إفريقيا في العصور القديمة والدراسات الكلاسيكية والبيزنطية والتاريخ الإسلامي الوسيط، وكذلك للمهتمين بعلمي التاريخ والآثار في الدول العربية. Contributors Emad Abou-Ghazi, Al-Amin Abouseada, Youcef Aibeche, Sidi Mohammed Alaioud, Abdulhadi Alajmi, Allaoua Amara, Lotfi Ben Miled, Brahim El Kadiri Boutchich, Usama Gad, Azeddine Guessous, Fayza Haikal, Hani Hamza, Laith Hussein, Nasir al-Kaabi, Khaled Kchir, Mohammed Maraqten, Amr Omar, Abdelaziz Ramadan.Table of ContentsEnglish Preface المقدمة Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Part 1: The Study of the Ancient World 1 Assyriologie in Irak: Ein kurzer Überblick  Laith M. Hussein 2 Egyptian Egyptology, from Its Birth in the Late Nineteenth Century until the Early 2000s: The Founding Generations  Fayza Haikal and Amr Omar 3 Historiography of Pre-Islamic Arabia: Arab Scholars and Their Contributions to the Writing of the History of Ancient Yemen  Mohammed Maraqten 4 Contributions des chercheurs marocains dans l’enseignement de l’histoire ancienne  Sidi Mohammed Alaioud 5 Les sciences de l’antiquité en l’Algérie : bilan et perspectives  Youcef Aibeche 6 Receptions of Classical Antiquity in Egypt and the Arab World: Parallel Narratives, Invisible Corpora and a Troubled Archive  Usama Gad Part 2: The Study of the Middle Ages 7 The Study of Byzantine History in Egypt (1945–2017)  Abdelaziz Ramadan 8 Hichem Djaït, maître d’une école historique pour l’étude de l’Islam  Khaled Kchir 9 The Umayyads in Contemporary Arabic Historical Writing  Abdulhadi Alajmi 10 Historical Writing in Modern Iraq: Personalities and Trends  Nasir al-Kaabi 11 L’histoire sociale et économique médiévale de Al-Maġrib et Al-Andalus chez les chercheurs arabes  Brahim El Kadiri Boutchich et Azeddine Guessous 12 Les travaux d’histoire médiévale dans les universités algériennes: bilan et tendances actuelles  Allaoua Amara 13 Mamluk Studies in the Arab World  Emad Abou-Ghazi 14 Modern Egyptian Arabic Scholarship on Mamluk Arts and Architecture (1250–1517)  Hani Hamza 15 Les études académiques arabes en histoire concernant « les relations Maghreb-Machreq » au Moyen ge  Lotfi Ben Miled 16 Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship on Medieval Europe: A Bibliographical Study  Al-Amin Abouseada Index

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Book SynopsisThe ninth-century Chronographia of George the Synkellos and Theophanes is the most influential historical text ever written in medieval Constantinople. Yet modern historians have never explained its popularity and power. This interdisciplinary study draws on new manuscript evidence to finally animate the Chronographia’s promise to show attentive readers the present meaning of the past. Begun by one of the Roman emperor’s most trusted and powerful officials in order to justify a failed revolt, the project became a shockingly ambitious re-writing of time itself—a synthesis of contemporary history, philosophy, and religious practice into a politicized retelling of the human story. Even through radical upheavals of the Byzantine political landscape, the Chronographia’s unique historical vision again and again compelled new readers to chase after the elusive Ends of Time.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Two Notes on the Text Introduction: Reading the Chronographia on Its Own Terms  1 Reconstructing Authors or Re-Reading Manuscripts? A New Approach  2 Essential Terms and Their Implications for Reading  3 The Chronographia’s Invective against Eusebius as Its Claim to Auctoritas  4 The Place of the Chronographia in Byzantine Chronography  5 The Argument of This Book Part 1: The Argument of the Chronographia 1 Text and Manuscripts: The Imperial Logic of the Chronographia  1 The Ninth-Century Form of the Chronographia  2 The Structure of the Text: AM 5434 as the Beginning of a New Era  3 Time’s Order: A Chronology of Emperors or of Universal Years?  4 How the Dating Systems Work in Practice  5 The Imperial Time of the Chronographia 2 Author: The Synkellos and His Imperial Critique  1 The Significance of George’s Personal History for Reading the Chronographia  2 What Was a synkellos in ca. 800?  3 The synkelloi of the Chronographia and the Revolt of AM 6300 (AD 808)  4 The Associates of the Synkellos in the Revolt of AD 808  5 The Synkellos’ Imperial Critique 3 Thesis: The First-Created Day  1 What Did the First-Created Day Mean? A Reliable Chronology of Empire  2 Theological Truth in the Chronological Paradox of the First-Created Day  3 Typology and Chronology: The Past Fulfilled in the Present  4 The First-Created Day and the Present Age  5 The Thesis of the First Created Day: Chronology and Typology 4 Reader: The Invitation of the Preface of Theophanes  1 The Preface: From Authorship to Readership  2 A Conceptual Map of the Preface  3 George as Author and Theophanes as His Reader  4 Theophanes, Author of “the Same Chronography,” and His Reader  5 The Invitation of the Preface  Appendix: Preface of Theophanes as in Wake Greek 5, Collated with VG 155 Part 2: The Imperial Types of the Chronicle 5 Imperial Antitypes: Progenitors, Successors, and Greed  1 The Imperial Antitype: The Greedy Emperor  2 The Progenitor-Successor Type: Constantine-Constantius  3 The Corruption of the Progenitor-Successor Type: Herakleios-Constans  4 The Antitype of the Progenitor-Successor Type: Leo III to Constantine V  5 Interpreting the Antitypes in the Reader’s Present 6 Imperial Prototypes: Mothers, Sons, and Repentance  1 The Fulfillment of Early Rulers’ Virtues: Constantine I with Helena  2 The Paradigm of Good Rule: Theodosios II with Pulcheria  3 Irene and Constantine VI: From a Holy Beginning to a Failed Joint Reign  4 From Irene the Sinner to Irene the Repentant  5 Irene the Repentant Martyr  6 Mothers, Sons and Repentance 7 Nikephoros the All-Devourer  1 The Transition from Irene to Nikephoros: AM 6295–6296 (AD 802–804)  2 Nikephoros’ Failures and a Growing Opposition: AM 6297–6301 (AD 804–809)  3 The Ten Evils of Nikephoros I: An Overview  4 The First Five Evils: The Evils of Impiety  5 The Last Five Evils: The Evils of Greed  6 The Parable of the Keroullarios and the All-Devourer: A Typological Reading  7 The First End(ing) of the Chronographia Part 3: The Ends of the Chronographia 8 AD 815 and the End of History  1 Who Was against Nikephoros? The Faction behind the Chronographia Project  2 Who Is for Leo V? The Entries for AM 6303–6305  3 AM 6303–6305 and the Community of the Chronographia  4 The Second End(ing) of the Chronographia 9 The Past’s Future: The Chronographia Project in the Mid-Ninth Century  1 Dating the Ninth-Century Recensions of the Chronographia  2 The Papal-Carolingian Excursus  3 The Chronographia and the Triumph of Orthodoxy: AD 843–847  4 Writing Time in the Early Middle Ages Conclusion: Writing Time for an End  1 The Past Study  2 The Present Discourse  3 An End for the Future Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe objective of this book is to identify the narrative strategy and chronology applied in The Chronicle of Halych-Volhynia, and to consider whether this source was intended to form part of a historical collection from the beginning. From the early 13th century in Rus’, chronicling began to be cultivated in various centres, focusing on the history of the local area, and therefore in this period historiographical material was collected for specific ideological purposes, providing a genesis of the history of the Rus’. By re-working this history, subsequent authors gave their writings a novel quality, albeit one that remained firmly rooted in older historiographic collections. This study offers a fresh new look at the complexities of Rus’ian historiography in the Middle Ages.

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Book SynopsisIn Making Sense of History: Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Naʿīmā, Gül Şen offers the first comprehensive analysis of narrativity in the most prominent official Ottoman court chronicle. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines methods from history and literary studies, Şen focuses on the purpose and function of the chronicle—not just what the text says but why Naʿīmā wrote it and how he shaped the narrated reality on the textual level. As a case study on the literalization of historical material, Making Sense of History provides insights into the historiographical and literary conventions underpinning Naʿīmā’s chronicle and contributes to our understanding of elite mentalities in the early modern Ottoman world by highlighting the author’s use of key concepts such as history and time.Trade Review"In the introduction to The Sultan’s Servants: The Transformation of Ottoman Provincial Government, 1550–1650, 5 Metin Kunt tells of his studies at Princeton. Among the courses that encouraged him to look closer into the Islamic background of Ottoman institutions he mentions David Ayalon’s seminar on the Mamluk state. And indeed, students of Mamluk historiography would benefit from Şen’s meticulous research. Her insights into the motives, structure and style of Naʿīmā’s chronicle serve as an inspiring study." --Yehoshua Frenkel, University of Haifa, in Mamlūk Studies Review, Vol. 25 (2022)

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Book SynopsisIn the last thirty years, understandings of the European reformations have been transformed. A generation of scholars has demonstrated how radically wide-ranging these movements were. Across family life, politics, material culture and philosophy, the reformations are now at the very heart of our understanding not just of early modern Europe, but of religion and identity in general. This volume collects recent work from past and present members of the European Reformation Research Group, exploring key fronts in contemporary Reformation Studies, achieving a broad view of how historiography has developed in recent decades – and where it seems set to go next.Table of ContentsForeword: ERRG at Thirty   Andrew Pettegree Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Reading the Reformations   Anna French Part 1 Reading the Instructive 1 ‘Teaching the Simple’: Sacramental Education in Sixteenth Century Germany   Ruth Atherton 2 ‘A Godly Forme of Household’: Reading Reformed Religion in the Protestant Home   Anna French 3 Divine Kingship, Royal Supremacy, and Romans 13 (1526–36)   Steven M. Foster Part 2 Reading the Communal 4 Reforming France: The Protestant Political Assemblies during the First War of Religion, 1562–1563   David Nicoll 5 The Reformed Kirk and the Local Community: The Evidence of Perth’s Kirk Session   Helen Gair 6 Reading: The Reformations   Joe Chick Part 3 Reading the Material 7 Inscriptions, Text and the Material Culture of Worship in the Southern Netherlands, c.1566–1621   Andrew Spicer 8 Reading and Not Reading the Material Evidence in Parish Churches   Susan Orlik 9 Surviving a Public Obsession: Reading the Female Body in Post-reformation Legislation and Medicine   Heather Cowan Part 4 Reading the Long Reformation 10 ‘The Common Practices of an Imperfect World’: The Apparent Paradox of Cardinal Francesco Piccolomini’s Thoughts and Deeds   Susan May 11 Making Public: Communicating Supernatural Belief in England’s Long Reformation   Laura Sangha 12 Two Ways to Read the Bible in the (Very) Long Reformation   Alec Ryrie 13 Afterword: The European Reformation Research Group Looking Forward   Elizabeth Tingle Index

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Book SynopsisAl-Maqrīzī's (d. 845/1442) last work, al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar, was completed a year before his death. This volume, edited by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, covers the history of pre-Islamic Iran during the Sasanian period and the conquest. Al-Maqrīzī's work shows how Arab historians integrated Iran into world history and how they harmonised various currents of historiography (Middle Persian historiography, Islamic sacred history, Greek and Latin historiography). This part harmonises the versions of Miskawayh's Tağārib, al-Ṭabarī’s Taʾrīḫ, and several other sources, producing a fluent narrative of Iran from the early 3rd century until 651. It also includes the complete text of ʿAhd Ardašīr, here translated for the first time into English.Table of ContentsPreface List of Plates Abbreviations Introduction  1 al-Maqrīzī and the Ḫabar  2 Sources  3 Quoting  4 Mistakes  5 Description of the Manuscripts  6 The Copying of Manuscript A-2826/5 (MS T)  7 Sasanian Kings and Queens according to al-Maqrīzī  8 Translation and Transliteration of Names Plates Abbreviations and Symbols Critical Edition and Translation of al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar, Vol. V, Section 4: Persia and Its Kings, Part II The Fourth Class of Persian Kings, the Sasanians Bibliography List of Quoted Manuscripts Index of Qurʾānic Verses Index of Verses Index of Prophetic Traditions Index of Names (People and Places) Index of Technical Terms Index of Quoted Titles in al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar Index of Sources in al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar Index of Glosses Facsimile of MS Fatih 4340 (Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi), Fols. 137a–200a

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Book SynopsisThe authors of the first serious scholarly works on Greek warfare were not free to write their surveys as they wished. In the nineteenth-century German-speaking world, the supreme authority on all military history rested with the Great General Staff, the intellectual nerve centre of the Prussian army. Officers rejected the ability of historians to understand warfare and imposed their pragmatic perspective on any attempt to study past wars. How did classicists and historians respond to this challenge? This book explores how the scope and method of the first handbooks on Greek warfare were shaped by their environment; it questions the ancient wisdom that practical expertise is the best guide to writing military history.Table of ContentsContents Abstract Keywords  1 Introduction  2 An Officer and a Gentleman: The Joint Works of Rüstow and Köchly  3 The Age of the Great Handbooks: The New Surveys of 1880–1895  4 The Delbrück-Kromayer Controversy  5 Conclusion: Between Miltiades and Moltke Acknowledgements Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisZuozhuan (Zuo Tradition) is the foundational text of Chinese historiography and the largest text from preimperial China. For two millennia, its immense complexity has given rise to countless controversies, with scholars debating its nature, time of composition, and historical reliability. In the present volume—the first of its kind in any Western language—leading scholars of ancient China, Greece, and Rome approach Zuozhuan from multi-faceted perspectives to examine in detail Zuozhuan’s sources, narrative patterns, and meta-narrative devices; analyze the text in dialogue with other ancient Chinese works; and open it to the comparative study with ancient Greek and Roman historiography. Contributors are: Chen Minzhen, Stephen Durrant, Joachim Gentz, Martin Kern, Wai-yee Li, Nino Luraghi, Ellen O’Gorman, Yuri Pines, David Schaberg, and Kai Vogelsang.

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Book SynopsisThe Fozu tongji by Zhipan (ca. 1220–1275) is a key text of Chinese Buddhist historiography. The core of the work is formed by the “Fayun tongsai zhi,” an annalistic history of Buddhism in China, which extends through Fozu tongji, juan 34–48. Thomas Jülch now presents a translation of the “Fayun tongsai zhi” in three volumes. This third volume covers the annalistic display concerning the Song dynasty. Offering elaborate annotations, Jülch succeeds in clarifying the backgrounds to the historiographic contents, which Zhipan presents in highly essentialized style. Regarding the historical matters addressed in the material translated for the present volume, the Fozu tongji is often the earliest source. In several cases, inaccuracies in Zhipan’s account can however still be discerned, and Jülch succeeds in employing other sources to reveal and correct those errors.Table of Contents9789004680135 Acknowledgements Introduction to Fozu tongji, juan 43–48  1 Tiantai Buddhism, Chan Buddhism, and the Eminent Monks  2 Important Monasteries, Sacred Mountains, and Their Geographic Locations  3 Buddhist Laymen with Confucian Background  4 The Buddhist Confrontation with Neoconfucianism  5 The Buddhist Confrontation with Daoism  6 Buddhist and Daoist Prophecy  7 The Jurchen Invasion of Northern China  8 Intertextuality  9 Alternative Names Preliminary Remarks Translation Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 10  Supplements for Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 10 Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 11  Supplements for Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 11 Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 12  Supplements for Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 12 Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 13  Supplements for Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 13 Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 14  Supplements for Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 14 Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 15 Glossary of Sanskrit Terms Bibliography Indices

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Book SynopsisThis book on Egyptian Pentecostalism is considered the first integrated monograph on the topic. It invites scholars and students of Religions, Renewal Studies, and Pentecostalism around the world to discover a new arena of research. Due to the sociocultural perspective of this study on Pentecostalism in Egypt, the book also invites sociologists and scholars who study sociocultural and religious context of the Middle East and North Africa to add new trajectories to their studies. No doubt that this study reveals what was concealed for decades regarding movements and revivals that broke out in Egyptian cities and villages! A must-read!Trade ReviewIn his Egyptian Pentecostalism, Tharwat Adly has written what surely will be the definitive work on Egyptian Pentecostalism, a subject that has been long overlooked. This book is thoroughly researched, documented and above all well-written. Thank you Dr. Tharwat for this very valuable book. - Vinson Synan, Oral Roberts UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction Setting the Stage 1 Purpose of the Study 2 Previous Glimpses on the Topic 3 Methodology and Description of the Primary Sources 4 Historical Background of the “Waves” Theory 4.1 The First Wave: Classical Pentecostals 4.2 The Second Wave: Charismatic Renewal 4.3 The Third Wave: Neo-charismatics 4.4 The Fourth Wave: New Apostolic Reformation 4.5 Critiques of the Three-Wave Taxonomy 5 Anderson’s Alternative Taxonomy 6 The Study of Egyptian Pentecostalism and the Usage of the “Waves” Analogy Part 1 Historical Narrative  Introduction to Part 1 2 The Early Protestant Missions in Egypt during the Ottoman Rule (1517–1798) until the Coming of the American Presbyterian Mission to Egypt in the Nineteenth Century 1 Introduction 2 The Early Protestant Missionary Work in Egypt during the Ottoman Rule (1517–1798) until Muhammad Ali’s Rule (1805–1848) 2.1 A Socio-cultural Background 2.2 Peter Heyling (1633–1634) 2.3 The Moravian Mission in Egypt (1750–1782) 2.4 Church Missionary Society (cms) Mission in Egypt (1825–1862) 3 The Rise of Protestantism in Egypt 3.1 The Egyptian Socio-political Context during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century 3.2 The Coptic Church in the Mid-nineteenth Century 3.3 The Coming of the American Presbyterian Mission to Egypt 3.4 The Establishment of the First Egyptian Organized Protestant Denomination in Egypt: the Egyptian Presbyterian Church 4 A Discussion of Various Narratives and Interpretations of the Western Missionary Efforts in Egypt during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century 5 A Case Study: a Brief Examination of the Case of the cms Mission according to the Previous Examined Narratives 3 The Pre-Pentecostal Era in Egypt (1899–1906) and the Wesleyan Holiness/Pentecostal-Like Movements during the First Half of the Twentieth Century 1 Introduction 2 The Ecclesiastical and Social Landscape in Egypt during the Last Decade of the Nineteenth Century 3 The Emergence of the Canadian Holiness Movement Church (hmc): a Theological and Socio-Cultural Background 4 The Emergence of the Egyptian Holiness Movement Church (ehmc): Cyclones of the Divine Power Reaches Upper Egypt 4 The Birth of Egyptian Pentecostalism The Classical Pentecostal Movements in Egypt from the Beginning of the Twentieth Century until the Final Composition of Egyptian Pentecostal Denominations by the Mid-1960s 1 Introduction 2 Three-Blessing Theology in Transition: from Pentecostal-Like Holiness Movements to Classical Pentecostalism 3 The Emergence of the Classical Pentecostal Wave in Egypt 3.1 The Formative Years (1907–1912): Who Was the First to Light the Pentecostal Flame in Egypt? 3.2 George S. Brelsford’s Mission in Egypt (1909–1912): Theological Characteristics and Missionary Strategies 4 Major Developments during the Middle Years (1913–1930s) 4.1 A Shift Towards Durham’s “Finished Work” Theology and the Establishment of the Egyptian Assemblies of God 4.2 H. E. Randall’s Pentecostal Ministry in Egypt: the Early Phase (1912–1914) 4.3 Dāir el-Jārnoūs’ Revival and the Early Phase of Boutros Labib’s Ministry (1913–1914) 4.4 The Rise of Native Pentecostal Ministers in Egypt: Amir Abdel Malik (1893–1989) and Salib Boulos (1897–1946) as Models 4.5 Early Egyptian Pentecostalism (1907–1920) between Proliferation and Marginalization 4.6 Rejection of the Oneness Theology in the Ancient Trinitarian Land: Randall’s Embrace of the Unipersonal Belief in 1915 and his Repentance in 1921 4.7 Years of Expansion and Stabilization of the aog Denomination (Al-Kānīsā Al-Rāsūlīyah) in Egypt (1920s–1930s) 5 The Establishment of the Pentecostal Church of God (cog) in the Early 1940s 6 Samuel Mishreky’s Ministry and the Establishment of the Central Pentecostal Church of God in Cairo 7 The Establishment of Luxor Independent Oneness Church in the Late 1950s 8 Various Narratives of the Emergence and Development of the Classical Wave of Egyptian Pentecostalism: a Brief Analysis 5 The Neo-charismatic Movement in Egypt from Its Emergence in the 1980s until the Present Time 1 Introduction 2 The Second Wave of Pentecostalism: the Charismatic Movements in Egypt 3 The Third Wave of Pentecostalism: the Neo-charismatic Movements in Egypt 3.1 House-Church Movements 3.2 Independent Classical Spiritual Ministries 3.3 Ecumenical Ministries 3.4 Neo-charismatic Mega-conferences 3.5 Fivefold Ministries and nar Structures 4 The Third Wave of Egyptian Pentecostalism in the Light of the First Wave: Organizational and Ecumenical Aspects Part 2 Theological Analysis  Introduction to Part 2 6 The Undeveloped Theological Aspects of the Classical Wave of Egyptian Pentecostalism The Contextual Pentecostal Theology of Samuel Mishreky 1 Introduction 2 The Trinitarian Aspect of Mishreky’s Theology 3 The Christological Aspect of Mishreky’s Theology 4 The Wesleyan Aspect of Mishreky’s Theology 7 Historical Developments of the Doctrine of Baptism of the Holy Spirit in Relation to Major Eschatological and Ecclesiastical Aspects of Egyptian Pentecostalism 1 Introduction 2 Baptism of the Holy Spirit in the Western Context: a Brief Historical and Theological Background 3 Baptism of the Holy Spirit in Egyptian Pentecostalism: Historical and Theological Developments 4 Baptism of the Holy Spirit in Relation to Major Ecclesiastical and Eschatological Aspects in Egyptian Pentecostalism 5 Baptism of the Holy Spirit in Egyptian Pentecostalism: Speaking in Tongues and Other Manifestations 6 Baptism of the Holy Spirit in Egyptian Pentecostalism: Debates with Other Christian Traditions 8 Historical Developments of Healing Theologies in Egyptian Pentecostalism 1 Introduction 2 Healing Theologies in the West from Wesleyan Tradition to Classical Pentecostalism: a Theological Landscape 3 Developments of Healing Theologies and Practices in the First Wave of Egyptian Pentecostalism 3.1 Healing Theologies and Practices in Early Pentecostal Missions in Egypt 3.2 Healing Theologies and Practices in the Major Egyptian Pentecostal Denominations: the Egyptian aog, cog, and pcog 4 Developments of Healing Theologies and Practices in the Neo-charismatic Wave of Egyptian Pentecostalism Part 3 Case Study  Introduction to Part 3 9 Women in Egyptian Pentecostalism 1 Introduction 2 Women’s Ministry in the Early Holiness/Pentecostal Traditions in the West: a Brief Historical Background 3 History of the Early Holiness/Pentecostal Women Missionaries in Egypt and the Egyptian Women’s Involvement in Ministry 3.1 Women’s Ministry during the Holiness/Pre-pentecostal Era in Egypt 3.2 Women’s Ministry during the Early Egyptian Classical Pentecostalism 3.2.1 Lucy M. Leatherman (c. 1870–1925) 3.2.2 Sarah A. Smith (c. 1844–1918) 3.2.3 Lillian H. Trasher (1887–1961) 3.2.4 Mabel Dean (c. 1884–1961) 4 Women in the Contemporary Egyptian Pentecostal/Neo-charismatic Context 4.1 An Examination of the Contemporary Egyptian Pentecostal/Neo-charismatic Teaching on the Role of Women in Ministry 4.2 Ordinary and Non-prominent Pentecostals/Charismatics’ Beliefs 10 Conclusions and Additional Insights 1 Summation of Findings and Major Contributions 2 The Acceptance of Pentecostalism in Egypt in the Light of Egyptian Cultural Context and Social Ethos: Additional Insights 3 The Road Ahead: Possibilities for Further Studies and Contributions to Renewal Studies Appendix 1: Figures Appendix 2: A Translated Version of the Original Arabic Survey: the Role of Women in Ministry Bibliography Index

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