Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World
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Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World

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Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World

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Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World presents a cross-cultural comparison of the ways in which ancient civilizations thought about the past and recorded their own histories.

  • Written by an international group of scholars working in many disciplines
  • Truly cross-cultural, covering historical thinking and writing in ancient or early cultures across in East, South, and West Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Americas
  • Includes historiography shaped by religious perspectives, including Judaism, early Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism

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Yes, you can access Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World by Kurt A. Raaflaub in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Historiography. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781118412503
eBook ISBN
9781118413111
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Historiography
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Series Editor’s Preface
  6. Notes on Contributors
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 On Being Historical
  9. 2 The Task and Ritual of Historical Writing in Early China
  10. 3 History and Primordium in Ancient Indian Historical Writing: Itihāsa and Purā̄ṇa in the Mahā̄bhā̄rata and Beyond
  11. 4 Historical Consciousness and Historical Traditions in Early North India
  12. 5 Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in Ancient Japan: The Nihon shoki as a Text of Transition
  13. 6 As the Dharmacakra Turns: Buddhist and Jain Macrohistorical Narratives of the Past, Present, and Future
  14. 7 History as Festival? A Reassessment of the Use of the Past and the Place of Historiography in Ancient Egyptian Thought
  15. 8 The Presence of the Past in Early Mesopotamian Writings
  16. 9 “Two Old Tablets”: Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in Hittite Society
  17. 10 Thinking and Writing about History in Teispid and Achaemenid Persia
  18. 11 Historical Texts in the Hebrew Bible?
  19. 12 The Many Faces of the Past in Archaic and Classical Greece
  20. 13 How the Romans Remembered, Recorded, Thought About, and Used Their Past
  21. 14 Patterns of Early Christian Thinking and Writing of History: Paul – Mark – Acts
  22. 15 Byzantine historia
  23. 16 The Past in the Early and Medieval Islamic Middle East (circa 750–circa 1250)
  24. 17 Sources and Scales of Classic Maya History
  25. 18 The Poetics and Politics of Aztec History
  26. 19 Corn and Her Story Traveled: Reading North American Graphic Texts in Relation to Oral Traditions
  27. Index