Historiography

Inventing the High Renaissance from Winckelmann to Wikipedia: An introductory essay

by Jill Burke

This is also available via the Ashgate website - with more information about the book as a whole - see http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&title_id=10906&edition_id=14230&calcTitle=1

This introductory essay considers how the term "High Renaissance" came into usage, and whether we should use... more This introductory essay considers how the term "High Renaissance" came into usage, and whether we should use it or not today. It links to particular methodologies we associate with High Renaissance artist and introduces the essays in the volume.

Between the lines of a tale of murder and motive

by john regan

Irish public histories as an historiographical problem

by john regan

(together with Ph. Dörler), Justinian and the Ottomans. Byzantium in the Austrian school-book from 1771 to present times (in German)

by Johannes Preiser-Kapeller

in: F. Kolovou (ed.), Byzanzrezeption in Europa. Spurensuche über das Mittelalter und die Renaissance bis in die Gegenwart. Leipzig 2012, p. 313-346.

The paper analysis the depiction of the Byzantine Empire and its culture in Austrian history school books from 1771... more The paper analysis the depiction of the Byzantine Empire and its culture in Austrian history school books from 1771 until today.

'The 'Bandon Valley Massacre' as a historical problem' artcle

by john regan

"Dr Regan & Mr Snide" Professor David Fitzpatrick's response to Regan's "The Two Histories: Dr Jeykl & Mr Hyde" (plus other letters re Peter Hart, 'Bandon Valley Massacre')

by john regan

Dr Regan and Mr Snide
Do most academic historians of revolutionary and post-revolutionary Ireland conform to a... more Dr Regan and Mr Snide
Do most academic historians of revolutionary and post-revolutionary Ireland conform to a ‘constitutional narrative’, driven by a moral imperative to subvert republican interpretations of Irish history? Has their shared political agenda led to widespread and deliberate distortion, suppression, ‘elision’, and even falsification of the evidential record? Have they repeatedly abused their academic positions by indulging in tendentious ‘public history’ under the cloak of scholarship? Is it high time to confront and root out ‘the insidious influence of Irish public histories presented as objective historical evidence’? Have negligent or manipulative supervisors and examiners of youthful ‘revisionists’ colluded with doctoral students in perpetrating such historical malpractices? Is it the duty of supervisors to interfere with the manner in which students collect, select, interpret, and present evidence? Does ‘the credibility of the historical profession’ in Ireland demand ‘urgent attention’ to the failure of one particular supervisor, and one particular examiner, to ‘uphold disciplinary standards’ in the case of one particular student? Should those responsible be publicly excoriated? In the view of John M. Regan, presented in a series of articles including a recent contribution to History Ireland, the answer in all cases is an emphatic ‘yes’, expressed (so he would have us believe) more in sorrow than in anger.

Una visión historiográfica alternativa: la deconstrucción del estereotipo del bárbaro prerromano / An Alternative Historiographical Vision: the Deconstruction of the Stereotype of Pre-Roman Barbarian

by Tomás Aguilera Durán

Antesteria. Debates de Historia Antigua nº 1, 2012, ISSN 2254-1683, pp. 543-555.

RESUMEN: Se propone una aproximación al estudio de los estereotipos culturales que rigen la imagen de los pueblos... more RESUMEN: Se propone una aproximación al estudio de los estereotipos culturales que rigen la imagen de los pueblos prerromanos de la Hispania céltica (belicosidad, bandidaje, primitivismo cultural...) desde un triple enfoque documental y metodológico: el análisis crítico de los textos clásicos demuestra que el origen de su imagen estereotipada se basa en
ciertos prejuicios filosóficos y etnográficos grecolatinos y el discurso legitimador de la conquista; el estudio de la historiografía moderna revela la pervivencia de algunos de estos tópicos antiguos, lo que condiciona de forma determinante la investigación sobre estas sociedades; la historia cultural, por último, ayuda a comprender la forma en que esos tópicos han trascendido el discurso académico, integrándose en el imaginario colectivo, desde el Renacimiento hasta la actualidad, a través del arte, la literatura o el discurso político, participando de la configuración ideológica de las identidades modernas. Recurriendo a ciertas realidades análogas del resto de Europa y con el caso hispano como principal referente, se defiende un proyecto de estudio conjunto y deconstructivo de esas tres dimensiones del estereotipo para comprender plenamente la forma en que se originan, se consolidan y proyectan tanto en los paradigmas historiográficos como en el imaginario popular.

ABSTRACT: We propose an approach to the research of the cultural stereotypes which determine the image of the pre-Roman peoples of Celtic Hispania (bellicosity, banditry,
cultural primitivism...) from a triple documental and methodological focus: the critic analysis of the classical texts shows that the origin of their stereotyped image is based on some philosophic and ethnographic prejudices and the legitimist discourse of conquest; modern historiography research reveals the survival of some of these topics, a fact that clearly determines the investigation of these societies; finally, the cultural history helps to understand the ways in which these topics have transcended the academic discourse to be integrated in the collective imagination, from Renaissance to the present, through art, literature or politic discourse, participating in the ideological configuration of modern identities. Using some analog realities of the rest of Europe and having the Hispanic case as the principal referent, we argue a project of global and deconstructive research of these three faces of the stereotype for a complete understanding of the way they were originated,
consolidated and projected both within historiographical paradigms and popular imagination.

‘A Respectful Challenge to the Nineteenth-Century’s View of Itself: An Argument for the Early Modern Medicalization of Old Age’, The Cultural Politics of Ageing in the Nineteenth Century Conference, University of Regensburg, Germany, 24-26 November 2011.

by Lynn Botelho

Manetho’s 23rd Dynasty and the Legitimization of Kushite Rule over Egypt

by Matthew J. Adams

Antiguo Oriente 9 (2011)

This paper considers the identification of the kings in the epitomes of Manetho’s Twenty-third Dynasty and their... more This paper considers the identification of the kings in the epitomes of Manetho’s Twenty-third Dynasty and their function in the historiographical traditions of ancient Egypt. Despite the long-standing rejection of Manetho’s Twenty-third Dynasty as ahistorical, it is here argued that the names preserved in the Twenty-third Dynasty are part of an authentic historiographical tradition originating with the Kushite king, Taharka. The paper goes further to suggest specific reasons why, and an historical reconstruction of the process whereby, the Twenty-third Dynasty became integrated with other the king-list traditions. Additionally, it identifies specific functions for the as-yet unidentified names Psammous and Zet in Julius Africanus’ version of the epitome of Manetho. The argument considers the political and cultural perspective of the Kushite kings who were responsible for a strand of king-list tradition and offers some interpretations of Kushite royal practices in light of these conclusions.

"A Tale of Two Galloways, Notes on the Early History of UNRWA and Zionist Historiography."

by Alex Joffe

La modernité dans l'historiographie du Soudan : usages convenus d'un concept nébuleux ?

by Iris Seri-Hersch

To be published in Cahiers d'Etudes africaines, 2012

Cet article propose une réflexion critique sur les usages de la catégorie modernité dans l'historiographie du Soudan... more Cet article propose une réflexion critique sur les usages de la catégorie modernité dans l'historiographie du Soudan contemporain. Attentive à la distinction heuristique entre catégories analytiques et catégories normatives, l'étude revient sur des conceptualisations européennes de la modernité avant d'examiner ses usages dans la production académique soudaniste des cinquante dernières années. En dépit de la diversité de leurs approches et de leurs objets, la plupart des travaux analysés endossent explicitement ou implicitement l'une ou l'autre des théories de la modernisation et de la dépendance. L'argumentaire débouche sur la nécessité, pour les chercheurs en sciences sociales, de sortir des impasses épistémologiques de la modernité "modernisatrice" et des modernités "multiples".

This paper deals with "modernity" as an analytical category, investigating how it has been used by scholars of modern Sudan in the last fifty years. Keeping in mind the heuristic distinction between analytical and normative categories, the study goes back to European conceptualizations of modernity before examining how it has been constructed and used across a wide range of Sudanist academic writings. Despite significant differences in their approaches and subjects of study, most of the works under review explicitly or implicitly adopt either modernization or dependence theories. The paper ultimately argues for the necessity of avoiding the epistemological dead ends of both "modernizing" and "multiple" modernities.

Literacy, culture and history in the work of Thienemann and Hajnal

by Andras Kisery

in: Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Louise O. Vasvári. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2011, pp. 34-46.

‘Polyaenus Macedo (639)’

by Bogdan Burliga

[in:] Brill’s New Jacoby, General Editor Ian Worthington. Leiden 2012  [Brill Online: http://www.brillonline.nl

Eugenesia y formas de hacer historia. Cuestiones para el debate

by Rosa Medina-Domenech

J. Wansbrough and the Problem of Islamic Origins in Recent Scholarship: A Farewell to the Traditional Account

by Carlos Segovia

in: The Coming of the Comforter: When, Where, and to Whom? Studies on the Rise of Islam and Various Other Topics in Memory of John Wansbrough (Orientalia Judaica Christiana 3; Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2012), xix-xviii.

La Exposición de Arte Prehistórico de 1921 en las cartas de H. Obermaier a H. Breuil (1919-1921)

by Raimon Graells i Fabregat

Forthcoming
Graells ep.d: R. Graells, "La Exposición de Arte Prehistórico de 1921 en las cartas de H. Obermaier a H. Breuil (1919-1921)“, Kalathos, 26-27

La Exposición de Arte Prehistórico de 1921 en las cartas de H. Obermaier a H. Breuil (1919-1921)

by Raimon Graells i Fabregat

Forthcoming
Graells ep.d: R. Graells, "La Exposición de Arte Prehistórico de 1921 en las cartas de H. Obermaier a H. Breuil (1919-1921)“, Kalathos, 26-27

"La transformación contemporánea de la hermenéutica y el estatuto epistemológico de la historia"

by Francisco Vazquez Garcia

Análisis de la transformación que afectó a la hermenéutica contemporánea (Gadamer, Ricoeur) y de las nuevas... more Análisis de la transformación que afectó a la hermenéutica contemporánea (Gadamer, Ricoeur) y de las nuevas posibilidades que este cambio abre a la hora de articular entre sí reflexión hermenéutica, filosofía analítica y práctica de los historiadores

"La transformación contemporánea de la hermenéutica y el estatuto epistemológico de la historia"

by Francisco Vazquez Garcia

Análisis de la transformación que afectó a la hermenéutica contemporánea (Gadamer, Ricoeur) y de las nuevas... more Análisis de la transformación que afectó a la hermenéutica contemporánea (Gadamer, Ricoeur) y de las nuevas posibilidades que este cambio abre a la hora de articular entre sí reflexión hermenéutica, filosofía analítica y práctica de los historiadores

Estudios de teoría y metodología del saber histórico: De la escuela historica alemana al grupo de los" annales"

by Francisco Vazquez Garcia