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The earliest development of Arabic historical writing remains shrouded in uncertainty until the 9th century CE, when our first extant texts were composed. This book demonstrates a new method, termed riwāya-cum-matn, which allows us to identify citation-markers that securely indicate the quotation of earlier Arabic historical works, proto-books first circulated in the eighth century.As a case study it reconstructs, with an edition and translation, around half of an annalistic history written by al-Layth b. Saʿd in the 740s. In doing so it shows that annalistic history-writing, comparable to contemporary Syriac or Greek models, was a part of the first development of Arabic historiography in the Marwanid period, providing a chronological framework for more ambitious later Abbasid history-writing.Reconstructing the original production-contexts and larger narrative frames of now-atomised quotations not only lets us judge their likely accuracy, but to consider the political and social relations underpinning the first production of authoritative historical knowledge in Islam. It also enables us to assess how Abbasid compilers combined and augmented the base texts from which they constructed their histories.

RELIGION / Islam / History. --- Early Arabic prose. --- Egypt. --- Umayyad history writing. --- al-Layth b. Saʿd. --- historical annals. --- Islamic Empire --- Intellectual life.

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An important text from the 'twelfth-century Renaissance' of history writing re-evaluated, drawing out its complex representations of monarchs from Cnut to William Rufus.

Great Britain --- History --- Gaimar, Geffrei, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. --- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. --- Cnut. --- Kingship. --- William Rufus. --- historical representation. --- history writing. --- history. --- medieval history. --- monarchs. --- power.

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Essays looking at the links between England and Europe in the long thirteenth century.

Great Britain --- History --- Politics and government --- Diplomatic relations. --- 1200-1299 --- Relations --- Gascony. --- History writing. --- friars. --- medieval church. --- medieval cultural history. --- medieval religious history. --- politics. --- queenship. --- royal saints. --- saints lives. --- social history. --- urban history. --- HISTORY / Medieval.

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In the past William of Malmesbury (1090-1143) has been seen as first and foremost a historian of England, and little else. This volume reveals not only William's real greatness as a historian and his European vision, but also the breadth and depth of his learning across a number of other fields. Areas that receive particular attention are William's historical writings, his historical vision and interpretation of England's past; William and kingship; William's language; William's medical knowledge; the influence of Bede and other ancient writers on William's historiography; William and chronology; William, Anselm of Canterbury and reform of the English Church; William and the Latin Classics; William and the Jews; and William as hagiographer. Overall, the volume offers a broad coverage of William's learning, wide-ranging interests and significance as revealed in his writings. Rodney M. Thomson is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Tasmania; Emily Dolmans is a lecturer in English Literature at Jesus College and Oriel College, University of Oxford; Emily A. Winkler is the John Cowdrey Junior Research Fellow in Medieval History at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, and Departmental Lecturer in Medieval History. Contributors: Anne E. Bailey, Emily Dolmans, Daniel Gerrard, John Gillingham, Kati Ihnat, Ryan Kemp, William Kynan-Wilson, Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Stanislav Mereminskiy, Samu Niskanen, Joanna Phillips, Alheydis Plassmann, Sigbjørn Sønnesy, Rodney M. Thomson, Emily Joan Ward, Emily A. Winkler, Michael Winterbottom.

Historians --- Congresses --- William, --- Historiographers --- Scholars --- Guillermo, --- Gulielmus, --- Malmesbury, William of, --- Wilhelmus, --- Willelmus, --- William of Malmesbury, --- Conferentie --- Historians - England - Congresses --- Willelmus Malmesburiensis --- William, - of Malmesbury, - approximately 1090-1143 --- England. --- Angleterre --- Anglii͡ --- Anglija --- Engeland --- Inghilterra --- Inglaterra --- Anglo-Latin literature. --- Anglo-Norman Studies, medieval British Isles. --- Bede. --- Church of England. --- Early Norman England. --- Historiography. --- History of Anglo-Saxon. --- History writing. --- Medieval Europe. --- Medieval monasticism. --- Monastic learning. --- William of Malmesbury.

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This is a book about the conflict between history and poetry - and historians and poets - in Atlantic World society from the end of the seventeenth century to the present day. Blending historiography and theory, it proceeds by asking: what is the point of poetry as far as historians are concerned? The focus is on W. H. Auden's Cold War-era history poems, but the book also looks at other poets from the seventeenth century onwards, providing original accounts of their poetic and historical educations. An important resource for those teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses in historiography and history and theory, Poetry for historians will also be of relevance to courses on literature in society and the history of education. General readers will relate it to Steedman's Landscape for a Good Woman (1987) and Dust (2001), on account of its biographical and autobiographical insights into the way history operates in modern society. --

Poetry --- History. --- Criticism --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Poems --- Verses (Poetry) --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy --- Auden, W. H. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- History --- History and criticism --- Oden, U., --- Auden, Wystan Hugh, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Poetry. --- Poésie --- Histoire et critique --- Critique et interprétation. --- 1900-1999. --- Poetry, Modern --- Civil War. --- Clio [the Muse of History]. --- Historia. --- Historiography. --- Homage to Clio. --- Muse of History. --- Vai people. --- W. H. Auden. --- historical actors. --- history-teaching. --- history-writing. --- history. --- modern era. --- poetical maid. --- poetics. --- servant poets. --- social history.