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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 "ation 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 "ations 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. 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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Jan Broadway provides a survey of local history activity in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England and considers the practicalities of doing so in the period. She also relates the historiography with the gentry culture of the period, showing how the past influenced contemporary society and attitudes.

Gentry --- History --- Great Britain --- History, Local. --- Historiography. --- Gentry, Landed --- Landed gentry --- Squires --- Upper class --- Elizabethan England. --- Elizabethan gentry. --- Tudor period. --- didactic history. --- early Stuart period. --- genealogical history. --- gentry consumers. --- gentry interest. --- local history. --- local-history writing. --- medieval period. --- regional networks. --- religious status. --- social status. --- topographical history.

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The past was ever present in later medieval England, as secular and religious institutions worked to recover (or create) originary narratives that could guarantee, they hoped, their political and spiritual legitimacy. Anglo-Saxon England, in particular, was imagined as a spiritual 'golden age' and a rich source of precedent, for kings and for the monasteries that housed early English saints' remains. This book examines the vernacular hagiography produced in a monastic context, demonstrating how writers, illuminators, and policy-makers used English saints (including St Edmund) to re-envision the bonds between ancient spiritual purity and contemporary conditions. Treating history and ethical practice as inseparable, poets such as Osbern Bokenham, Henry Bradshaw, and John Lydgate reconfigured England's history through its saints, engaging with contemporary concerns about institutional identity, authority, and ethics. Cynthia Turner Camp is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Georgia.

Christian hagiography --- Christian saints --- History --- Great Britain --- Christian hagiography - History - To 1500 --- Christian saints - England --- Anglo-Saxon --- Editha abb. Wiltoniensis --- Etheldreda regina abb. Eliensis --- Werburga seu Wereburga abb. Eliensis --- Eduardus Confessor rex Anglorum --- Saints --- Fremundus rex m. in Anglia --- Great Britain - History - Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 --- Great Britain - History - Medieval period, 1066-1485 --- Anglo-Saxons --- Canonization --- Anglo-Saxon saints. --- Ethics. --- Henry Bradshaw. --- History writing. --- Institutional identity. --- John Lydgate. --- Late medieval England. --- Osbern Bokenham. --- Precedent. --- Spiritual "golden age".

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An examination of the extraordinary texts produced by the community of St Cuthbert, showing how they were used to construct and define an identity.

Monasteries --- World history --- Monasticism and religious orders --- Historiography --- Monachism --- Monastic orders --- Monasticism and religious orders for men --- Monasticism and religious orders of men --- Orders, Monastic --- Orders, Religious --- Religious orders --- Brotherhoods --- Christian communities --- Brothers (Religious) --- Friars --- Monks --- Superiors, Religious --- Cloisters (Religious communities) --- Friaries --- Church property --- Religious institutions --- Scriptoria --- Historical criticism --- History --- Authorship --- Criticism --- Early works to 1800. --- To 1500 --- England --- North East England --- Northeast England --- History writing. --- St Cuthbert. --- community. --- cultural identity. --- historical events. --- historical sources. --- historical texts. --- historiography. --- identity. --- medieval history. --- religious community.