The Earliest States of Eastern Europe. 2013: The Origin of Historical Writing in the Societies of Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Editors of the volume D.D. Beljaev, Т.V. Guimon. Moscow: Dmitry Pozharsky University, 2016
The next volume of the almanac "The Earliest States of Eastern Europe" is devoted to the problem of how, when and in what forms in the societies of Antiquity and the Middle Ages, historical writing arises. The articles collected in this volume reveal this issue on the material of ancient and medieval Eurasia, as well as pre-colonial Africa and pre-Columbian America. The composition of the most ancient forms of historical writing (royal inscriptions, weather chronicles, lists of rulers, lengthy narratives, etc.), the sequence of their occurrence, the historical and cultural context, and other issues are considered. Particular attention is paid to the societies of early medieval Northern and Eastern Europe, including Old Rus'. Several articles of the volume are devoted to the debatable problems of the beginning of Old Russian historiography.
Table of contents
- D. D. Beliaev, T. V. Guimon - Preface - 5-24
- A. A. Banshchikova - Historical writing without history: The perception and the recording of the past in Ancient Egypt - 25-37
- A. A. Krasova - Historical writing of Assyria in the fourteenth–seventh centuries B.C.: The diversity of genres - 38-70
- M. Y. Ulyanov - On the process of preservation of historical memory in Ancient China of Chunqiu Period (771–453 B.C.) - 71-167
- I. E. Surikov - “In the first circle”: The emergence of the most ancient pieces of European historiography (Greece, the sixth–fifth centuries B.C.) - 168-202
- D. D. Beliaev - The beginning of historical writing in Ancient Mesoamerica - 203-240
- S. G. Klyashtornyj - The birth of Ancient Turkic historiography: The runic monuments of the Great Steppe - 241-258
- T. M. Kalinina - Al-Mas‘udi as the historian (on the example of “The book of prevention and revision”) - 259-280
- D. M. Bondarenko, P. M. Roese - Historiography without Writing? Abstract Signs and Pictorial Marks as a Means of Historical and Cultural Information Preservation and Transmission in Precolonial Benin - 281-302
- V. A. Arutyunova-Fidanyan - Oral tradition in the Armenian historiography: On the mechanisms of cultural continuity - 303-323
- N. Y. Zhivlova - Genealogies and early historical writing in Ireland - 324-364
- T. V. Guimon - The beginnings of historical writing in Anglo-Saxon England - 365-438
- A. I. Sidorov - Little forms of big history in medieval manuscripts (some books from South Germany of the ninth–eleventh centuries) - 439-463
- E. A. Melnikova - Genealogy and the beginnings of Norse-Icelandic historical writing - 464-526
- G. V. Glazyrina - Первый историограф Исландии Сэмунд Мудрый - 527-551
- V. I. Matuzova - The Origins of the Historiography of the Teutonic Order in Prussia - 552-564
- A. S. Shchavelev - Once again on mythical-epic oral sources of medieval historical writing: Gallus Anonymous' and Snorri Sturluson's stories of dynasty's founders - 565-592
- A. V. Nazarenko - Verifi able annual dates in the early Rus chronicles and their signifi cance for the study of historical writing in Rus - 593-654
- T. L. Vilkul - On the chronographic sources of the Primary Chronicle and the dating of the earliest Rus khronographs - 655-705
- M. M. Drobysheva - Historical Graffiti from the St. Sophia Cathedral of Kiev (the Eleventh and the Twelfth Centuries) as a form of Historical Writing - 706-724
- L. V. Stolyarova - Historical inscriptions in Old Rus books (an analysis of the inscription of the Kormchaia of 1286) - 725-747
- T. V. Guimon - On the beginnings of historical writing in Old Rus - 748-800
- T. N. Jackson - Early Scandinavian historiography: To the problem of national Christian identity formation (concerning the collection of articles “Historical Narratives and Christian Identity on a European Periphery: Early History Writing in Northern, East-Central, and Eastern Europe (c. 1070-1200)” / Ed. by Ildar H. Garipzanov. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. ISBN 9782503533674) - 801-835
- V. I. Matuzova - Рец.: Starnawska M. Świętych życie po życiu: Relikwie w kulturze religijnej na ziemiach polskich w średniowieczu. Warszawa, 2008 (Starnawska M. Life after life: Relics in religious culture in medieval Poland. Warsaw, 2008) - 836-839