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Authoring the Past
Authoring the Past surveys medieval Catalan historiography, shedding light on the emergence and evolution of historical writing and autobiography in the Middle Ages, on questions of authority and authorship, and on the links between history and politics during the period. Jaume Aurell examines texts from the late twelfth to the late fourteenth century—including the Latin Gesta comitum Barcinonensium and four texts in medieval Catalan: James I’s Llibre dels fets, the Crònica of Bernat Desclot, the Crònica of Ramon Muntaner, and the Crònica of Peter the Ceremonious—and outlines the different motivations for the writing of each. For Aurell, these chronicles are not mere archaeological ...
Rethinking Historical Genres in the Twenty-first Century
This book engages the reality of the new historical genres practised today (such as historical re-enactments, gaming history, social media, graphic narratives and first-person narratives of, memoirs of trauma, and film-history) which compete with the traditional model of historical prose (such as monographs, biographies, or narratives histories), and asks if we can we use this category for a critical analysis of historical practice. This book was originally published as a special issue of Rethinking History.
What is a Classic in History?
This innovative study explores the emergence, survival, and continued cultural importance of historical texts considered to be 'classics'.
Genealogies of the West
This book presents a new look at the West by tracing the still-recognizable footprints of the past and reflecting on the present challenges is facing. It recalls the genealogies of the plural processes, ideas, and events that structure the West's tradition and identity, and their presence nowadays. It proposes to reach back to the foundations of the Western Civilization such as Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, and the early Christianity. It explores the painful split between Rome, Constantinople and Mecca. It connects the great values of the Middle Ages - from the chivalrous spirit to the scholastic rationality - to the present. It shows the faces of the Modernity and its most relevant achievements ...
Theoretical Perspectives on Historians' Autobiographies
E. H. Carr wrote, "study the historian before you begin to study the facts." This book approaches the life, work, ideas, debates, and the context of key 20th- and 21st-century historians through an analysis of their life writing projects viewed as historiographical sources. Merging literary studies on autobiography with theories of history, it provides a systematic and detailed analysis of the autobiographies of the most outstanding historians, from the classic texts by Giambattista Vico, Edward Gibbon and Henry Adams, to the Annales historians such as Fernand Braudel, Philippe Ariès and Georges Duby, to Marxist historians such as Eric Hobsbawm and Annie Kriegel, to postmodern historians su...
Medieval Self-Coronations
The first systematic study of the practice of royal self-coronations from late antiquity to the present.
La escritura de la memoria
La escritura de la memoria es un vibrante recorrido por la historiografía del siglo XX que combina admirablemente el desarrollo de la teoría con la exposición de los autores y las obras concretas. Repasa las corrientes que han dominado la disciplina histórica durante el siglo pasado: los positivismos de entresiglos, los historicismos de entreguerras, la eclosión y desarrollo de la escuela de los Annales, los marxismos y los estructuralismos de la larga posguerra asociados a una historia de carácter socioeconómico, la eclosión del postmodernismo y de los giros lingüísticos y antropológicos en los años setenta, la crisis de los años ochenta, la recuperación de viejos temas y meto...
Rewriting the Middle Ages in the Twentieth Century
This is the third volume of the series "Rewriting the Middle Ages in the Twentieth Century", focused this time the medieval political thought. This book offers an overview of the national and transnational traditions of the historiography and studies the main questions and the background of this discipline in the last century. Essays for this new volume focus on the subjects life, intellectual and academic training; discuss major works and historiographical heritage; and locate the medievalists who have contributed to the better understanding of medieval political thought, through their work in medieval studies. This interdisciplinary resource aims to include medievalists from different fields: history, art, literature, theology, among others.
Rewriting the Middle Ages in the Twentieth Century
"The second volume of the collection, centred on "National Traditions", is focused on eighteen medievalists who have been significant in diverse countries in the development of both medievalism and national identity. Medievalism has been closely united to national traditions since its beginning, and this book contributes to our understanding of this phenomenon. Romantic intellectuals' attraction to the medieval period largely explains the influence of medievalism in the formation of contemporary national identities, as from the 19th century, medievalists have also functioned as intellectuals present in the public debate. In the 20th century, important scholars of the Middle Ages, some of whom are studied in this volume, had already become authentic "national chroniclers", consolidators of the identities of the countries to which they felt closely linked both intellectually and emotionally. They actively participated in debates that exceeded strictly academic limits, delving into a wide range of political and cultural issues.".
