Witnesses to Historical Writing

Polybius on the Writing of History - Kenneth Sacks: Polybius on the Writing of History. (University of California Publications, Classical Studies, 24.) Pp. viii + 233. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1981. Paper, $20. - Volume 33 Issue 2

The subject of marriage among Romans is a complex one fraught with many problems. Part of complexity is due to fact that Rome itself was marked by vast social, political, and economic changes within twelve centuries of its existence. There can be little doubt that these changes were reflected in institutional character of family and marriage. Adding to problematic nature of Roman marriage is quality of data available prior to second century B.C. For this span of time there is very little reliable testimony concerning marriage practices. Nevertheless, for period with which this article principally deals (the first centuries before and after Christ) there are at hand writings of Roman historians and biographers who more than adequately document imperial family, its antecedents, its collaterals, and its affinals. Regrettably, though, there never were social scientists who thought it worthwhile to record and transmit marital alignments of the man on street, for thought itself would have repelled an educated person in ancient Rome. As a result, very nature of evidence limits us to socially, politically, and economically dominant oligarchies which successively controlled capital city of Roman realm. There is also available a wealth of legal commentary on marriage practices. It mainly consists of excerpts from Classical jurists1 incorporated in codification of Justinian (Mommsen and Krueger 1954) and legal tracts most recently and conveniently edited by J. Baviera (I964). It should be noted that all of primary sources have been critically scrutinized again and again by each new generation of Classical scholars. Of these sources, jurists are more concerned with establishment of legal principles of marriage as they relate to family than they are with description and analysis of actual marriages. Whereas jurists are a repository of legal precedent and discussion, literary sources (especially writings of historians and biographers) furnish most of detailed material for reconstructing genealogies, since they record actual marriages and give other evidence for stemmata of most notable citizens of Rome.2 In this paper we propose to show that within complex and sometimes confusing welter of marriage, divorce, and remarriage among JulioClaudians, there is an identifiable structure. The sources of data upon which

A REFERENCE by the poet Martial to an abridged version of the history of Livy has given rise to the view that this epitome provided the main source for the transmission of Livy for those later writers of history whose requirements demanded an outline history of Rome. Such a view was first set out by Mommsen in 1861; he concluded that a large number of authors drew much of their material not from Livy directly but from a lost Epitome which departed at some points from the original in its composition. Other scholars followed his general thesis; indeed they have built upon it to such an extent that the list they compile of writers of Roman history who drew upon the ‘lost Epitome’ is a formidable one. These authors range from the period of Tiberius to the end of antiquity. They include such divergent writers as Valerius Maximus, Florus, Eutropius, the Auctor de viris illustribus, and Orosius, as well as the two known abbreviations made of Livy: the Periochae of the Oxyrhynchus Papyrus and the ‘fourth-century’ Periochae.

1. Empire and history writing: setting the scene 2. Empire and history writing c.1750-1830 3. Empire and history writing 1830s-1890s 4. Empire and history writing 1890s-1950 5. Empire and history writing since 1950 Conclusion: conversations about empire and history writing Bibliography Index

Book Review| October 01 1959 Detachment and the Writing of History: Essays and Letters of Carl L. Becker ed. by Phil L. Snyder Detachment and the Writing of History: Essays and Letters of Carl L. Becker. Edited by Snyder, Phil L. with an Introduction by Sabine, George H.. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1958. Pp. xvi, 240. $3.50. Georg G. Iggers Georg G. Iggers Dillard University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1959) 58 (4): 626–628. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-58-4-626 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Georg G. Iggers; Detachment and the Writing of History: Essays and Letters of Carl L. Becker ed. by Phil L. Snyder. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 1959; 58 (4): 626–628. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-58-4-626 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsSouth Atlantic Quarterly Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press1959 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| October 01 1964 What Is History? by Edward Hallett Carr, Generalization in the Writing of History: A Report of the Committee on Historical Analysis of the Social Science Research Council ed. by Louis Gottschalk What Is History? By Carr, Edward Hallett. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. Pp. 209. $3.50.Generalization in the Writing of History: A Report of the Committee on Historical Analysis of the Social Science Research Council. Ed. by Gottschalk, Louis. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1963. Pp xiii, 255. $5.00. Harold T. Parker Harold T. Parker Duke University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1964) 63 (4): 592–593. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-63-4-592 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Harold T. Parker; What Is History? by Edward Hallett Carr, Generalization in the Writing of History: A Report of the Committee on Historical Analysis of the Social Science Research Council ed. by Louis Gottschalk. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 1964; 63 (4): 592–593. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-63-4-592 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsSouth Atlantic Quarterly Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press1964 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

The following paper aims to explore fundamental questions surrounding the status of the work of renowned orientalist Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje. Although the term "historical genre" naturally arises when reading Mekka in the Latter Part of the 19th Century, this article critically questions whether Hurgronje's work should be categorized as a historical narrative or as a historical source. Through further investigation, this paper elaborates on and reviews the background of the work, provides a broad description of the book's content, analyzes its writing characteristics, and then connects these to the concepts of 'historical writing' and 'historical sources.' Therefore, this article opens a discussion on the nature and purpose of Hurgronje's writings and their relevance as a contribution to understanding the history of Mecca in the late 19th century, including the development of Islamic historiography in Indonesia. The data collection for this paper is based on library research. A historical approach is applied to this study, reinforced by Berelson's Content Analysis theory.

This contribution develops a comprehensive understanding of citation as a discursive process that comprises, among other forms of citation, quotation in historical writing, case histories, and literature. History proper and the genre of case histories are analyzed as asymmetrical—pragmatic—forms of citation, literature as a symmetrical form. Büchner's work is shown to be a unique site for opening the investigation on the practices of citation.

New trends emerged in historical writing in Iraq after the American occupation of March/April 2003, which created a rupture between two historical periods: the pre-2003 and post-2003 eras. Iraq lacked a clear framework for historical writing, and no genuine projects emerged to contribute to its development. Nevertheless, new trends in historical writing took shape, acquiring an institutional dimension interconnected with educational, pedagogical, and cultural frameworks. This marked a transitional phase from a politically monolithic, ideologically driven dictatorship that, in some aspects, emphasized ethnic and regional biases. This research comprises several sections. The first examines whether historical writing constitutes a school of thought or not. The second section explores the characteristics of historical writing after 2003. The third section, titled "The Historical Context of Historical Writing in Iraq after 2003," presents a fourth section that includes examples of Iraqi historians representing the various and more prominent trends in historical output after 2003.

Reviewed by: Transcultural Approaches to the Bible: Exegesis and Historical Writing across Medieval Worlds ed. by Matthias M. Tischler and Patrick S. Marschner Thomas A. Fudge Tischler, Matthias M., and Patrick S. Marschner, eds, Transcultural Approaches to the Bible: Exegesis and Historical Writing across Medieval Worlds (Transcultural Medieval Studies, 1), Turnhout, Brepols, 2021; pp. viii, 253; 19 colour illustrations; R.R.P. €80.00; ISBN 9782503592855. Few would question the assertion that the Bible ranks amongst the most important volumes in Western civilization. What has not been examined as thoroughly is the way in which Scripture has been utilized in creating and manipulating human memory, especially across transcultural medieval worlds. Naturally this is a large task that cannot be accomplished in a single thin volume. But this collection takes an initial step in that important direction. With a specific focus on the Iberian context, Latin Europe, the Near East, and the Baltic world, we are introduced to a series of vignettes drawing attention to the nature of Biblical interpretation and historical writing across these medieval worlds. Unsurprisingly, we learn the ways and means in which the Bible provides theological justification for crusading, explains how and why crusaders are God’s special people, provides an explanation for understanding the post-biblical nature of providential history, and how marginal glosses explain and correct the vagaries of Scripture, while at the same time elaborating how different cultures and events represent extensions of biblical narratives and truths. All of this is approachable and explicable by seeing beyond simplistic Sunday school notions of Scripture as a single text, reflecting a linear and unified programmatic agenda, possessing a priori metahistorical authority adopting modern assumptions like inspiration, verbal dictation, and theological politics creating the ‘word of God’. What is essential is understanding a complicated transmission process, a virtual lacuna surrounding canonization, and claims about authority that are often little more than the habit of repeated reading. As this volume makes clear, none of these components ever existed in an untouchable sacrosanctity. Cultures past and present, of course, have preferred to see the Bible as an instrument of unassailable power and authority. Many writings outside the biblical canon retained authority for communities of faith throughout the ages and informed efforts to frame concepts of salvation-history in the post-biblical world of the Middle Ages. Scripture was used, sometimes misused, occasionally abused, in a quest to explain history by adapting Iberian motifs, for example, to biblical narratives wherein typological connections between medieval and the Hebrew Bible worlds suggest prophecy, fulfilment, and justification for events, ideas, and practices. In this way, knowledge of the Bible plays a major part in interpreting contemporary affairs, thus enhancing the role Scripture plays in historical writing. Untangling these two discrete texts is difficult. [End Page 271] Knowledge of the Bible occurred aurally, optically, and dramaturgically, rather than through reading. Crusade narratives, for example, are peppered with Scriptural citations and allusions. The crusades become salvific, the Bible indispensable for crusaders, and we find arresting accounts of armies chanting hymns or psalms as the military machine advances in the name of God. Crusade texts are one example of how and why the Bible was quoted to provide credibility or justification. This volume underscores the role of historians toiling in the dimness of the medieval world, labouring to see mundane human efforts in the beam of divine light, interpreting human affairs with reference to the work of God, and setting forth these typologies in clearly enunciated exegesis. In consequence, contemporaries and posterity understand medieval matters in terms of the eternal now. Several chapters underscore the work of many medieval writers in identifying and applying the most appropriate biblical text for any number of respective contexts. Biblical manuscripts are utilized, by means of exegetical gymnastics if necessary, to illuminate divine approbation in the varied cultures of a world centuries removed from the sacred text. The more successful of such efforts resulted in medieval chronicles that are truly sustained dialogues with the Scriptures. Of particular interest is the dispute about clerical sexuality by means of an innovative use of Ezekiel 23, wherein we find absorbing elaboration of ‘condemned sisters, effeminate brothers, and damned heretics’ by Lydia M. Walker...

The History of Writing - (B.P.) Powell Writing. Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization. Pp. xx + 276, ills, maps. Malden, MA and Oxford: Wiley–Blackwell, 2009. Cased, £50, €60. ISBN: 978-1-4051-6256-2. - Volume 60 Issue 2

Journal Article Robert H. Canary. and Henry Kozicki, editors. The Writing of History: Literary Form and Historical Understanding. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1978. Pp. xv, 165. $17.50 Get access Canary Robert H.. and Kozicki Henry, editors. The Writing of History: Literary Form and Historical Understanding. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1978. Pp. xv, 165. $17.50. Haskell Fain Haskell Fain University of Wisconsin, Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 85, Issue 5, December 1980, Pages 1167–1168, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/85.5.1167-a Published: 01 December 1980

Book Review| May 01 1973 Review: The Writing of History in the Soviet Union, by Anatole G. Mazour The Writing of History in the Soviet UnionAnatole G. Mazour Nicholas V. Riasanovsky Nicholas V. Riasanovsky Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1973) 42 (2): 242–243. https://doi.org/10.2307/3638471 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Nicholas V. Riasanovsky; Review: The Writing of History in the Soviet Union, by Anatole G. Mazour. Pacific Historical Review 1 May 1973; 42 (2): 242–243. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/3638471 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1973 The Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| August 01 1963 Review: Generalization in the Writing of History, by Louis Gottschalk Generalization in the Writing of HistoryLouis Gottschalk Page Smith Page Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1963) 32 (3): 283–284. https://doi.org/10.2307/4492182 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Page Smith; Review: Generalization in the Writing of History, by Louis Gottschalk. Pacific Historical Review 1 August 1963; 32 (3): 283–284. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/4492182 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1963 Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| July 01 1980 The Writing of History: Literary Form and Historical Understanding ed. by Robert H. Canary, Henry Kozicki The Writing of History: Literary Form and Historical Understanding. Edited by Canary, Robert H.; Kozicki, Henry. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978. Pp. xv, 165. $17.50 Pardon E. Tillinghast Pardon E. Tillinghast Middlebury College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1980) 79 (3): 330–331. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-79-3-330 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Pardon E. Tillinghast; The Writing of History: Literary Form and Historical Understanding ed. by Robert H. Canary, Henry Kozicki. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 July 1980; 79 (3): 330–331. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-79-3-330 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsSouth Atlantic Quarterly Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press1980 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.