The Oxford History of Historical Writing is a five volume multi-authored history of historical writing published by Oxford University Press [1] under the general editorship of Daniel Woolf.
The Oxford History of Historical Writing is a five volume multi-authored history of historical writing published by Oxford University Press [1] under the general editorship of Daniel Woolf.
Historiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians have studied that topic by using particular sources, techniques, and theoretical approaches. Scholars discuss historiography by topic—such as the historiography of the United Kingdom, that of WWII, the pre-Columbian Americas, early Islam, and China—and different approaches and genres, such as political history and social history. Beginning in the nineteenth century, with the development of academic history, there developed a body of historiographic literature. The extent to which historians are influenced by their own groups and loyalties—such as to their nation state—remains a debated question.
Nikolai Spathari, also known as Nicolae Milescu and Nicolae Milescu Spătaru, or Spătarul Milescu-Cârnu, was a Moldavian-born writer, diplomat and traveler, who lived and worked in the Tsardom of Russia. He spoke nine languages: Romanian, Russian, Latin, both Attic and Modern Greek, French, German, Turkish and Swedish. One of his grandsons was the Spătar (Chancellor) Yuri Stefanovich, who came to Russia in 1711 with Dimitrie Cantemir.
The Transylvanian School was a cultural movement which was founded after part of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Habsburg-ruled Transylvania accepted the leadership of the pope and became the Greek-Catholic Church. The links with Rome brought to the Romanian Transylvanians the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment. The Transylvanian School's major centres were in the cities of Blaj (Balázsfalva), Oradea (Nagyvárad), Lugoj (Lugos) and Beiuș (Belényes).
Johannes Rosinus was the German author of a work on Roman Antiquity called Antiquitatum romanarum corpus absolutissimum, which first appeared at Basel in 1585.
Daniel Robert Woolf is a British-Canadian historian and former university administrator. He served as the 20th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, a position to which he was appointed in January 2009 and took up on 1 September 2009. He was previously a professor of history and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. He was reappointed to a second 5-year term in 2013. In late 2017, Woolf announced his intention not to serve a third term and to retire from university administration at the end of his second term in 2019. He was succeeded by Patrick Deane, and became Principal Emeritus.
Johannes Loccenius was a German jurist and historian, known as an academic in Sweden.
Lý Tế Xuyên was a Vietnamese historian, compiler of the Việt Điện U Linh Tập. The text gives not the history of historical figures, but their roles as spirits in the afterlife according to Mahayana Buddhism.
The Maha Yazawin, fully the Maha Yazawindawgyi and formerly romanized as the Maha-Radza Weng, is the first national chronicle of Burma/Myanmar. Completed in 1724 by U Kala, a historian at the Toungoo court, it was the first chronicle to synthesize all the ancient, regional, foreign and biographic histories related to Burmese history. Prior to the chronicle, the only known Burmese histories were biographies and comparatively brief local chronicles. The chronicle has formed the basis for all subsequent histories of the country, including the earliest English language histories of Burma written in the late 19th century.
The historiography of Japan is the study of methods and hypotheses formulated in the study and literature of the history of Japan.
Việt Điện U Linh Tập is a collection of Vietnamese history written in Chinese compiled by Lý Tế Xuyên in 1329.
Lik Amin Asah is a Mon language chronicle that strictly covers the legendary early history of its kings and founding of the city of Hanthawaddy Pegu (Bago). It was written in 1825 during the First Anglo-Burmese War.
Nidāna Ārambhakathā is a Mon language chronicle. It is supposedly part of a larger treatise called Ramann'-uppatti-dipaka. The surviving copy of Nidana is dated to the 18th century although the copy says its original manuscript was compiled in year 900 ME. Moreover, at least some parts of it were likely written during the early 17th century.
Şükrullah was a 15th-century Ottoman historian and diplomat. He was one of the earliest Ottoman historians.
Temple Stanyan (1675–1752) was an English civil servant, politician and author. He is most known for his Grecian History, first published in 1707, which became a standard work on the history of ancient Greece in the early part of the 18th century.
Eric Anderson Walker was an English historian who served as King George V Professor of History at the University of Cape Town and Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge. He was a pioneer in writing the history of South Africa and later an important historian of the British Empire, though by the end of his life his work was seen as dated and Eurocentric.
The Cambodian Royal Chronicles or Cambodian Chronicles are a collection of 18th and 19th century historical manuscripts that focus on the time from around the year 1430 to the beginning of the 16th century. This period of Cambodia's history is considered to be the Middle Periods, as it marks the end of the Khmer Empire. Written sources such as Sanskrit epigraphy become obsolete, beginning in the first half of the 14th century. Even Old Khmer inscriptions are absent until the middle of the 16th century. The last king mentioned in the ancient inscriptions of Angkor is King Jayavarman Parameshwara, who reigned from 1327 to 1336.
The History of Karka is a sixth-century text which describes the persecution and killings of Christians in Kirkuk in the year 446. This outbreak of violence occurred in the Sasanian Empire under Yazdegerd II.
Oman–Thailand relations is the official relationship between Oman and Thailand.
Andrew Feldherr is professor of classics at Princeton University from where he also earned his bachelor's degree. He received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley.
Thai Rop Phama, translated into English as Our Wars with the Burmese, is a book on Thai history written by Prince Damrong Rajanubhab, with volumes first published in 1917 and 1920. It frames the history of Thailand from the Ayutthaya to early Rattanakosin periods as a continuous struggle to maintain independence, represented by an extensive series of wars—44 in total between 1538 and 1853—against the aggression of neighbouring Burma.
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