Historical Writing
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This pilot was conducted at two PHABO secondary schools in Los Angeles. Both schools had API scores in the lowest decile of public schools in the state of California. A series of Document Based Question Assessments (DBQ’s) were... more
Scroll through as you like. The Keller et. al is superb, and I respond to a year's worth of book launches and the like at the end. It is a comment about impatient non-readers in our 21st century times among other things. Thanks to all!!
На правах рукописи. Диссертация на соискание учёной степени доктора исторических наук. Текст генетически связан с текстом монографии "Образ древности в советской историографии" (М., 2013), но имеет, помимо стилистических, ряд... more
Boîte contenant des poudres à saupoudrer sur l'écriture à des fins d'en améliorer le séchage.
Since 19th century numerous scholars discuss whether history is science or art and raise doubts on its cognitive capacities. From that time the gap between “scientific” and “narrative” notion of history became even larger. Positivism,... more
http://dx.doi.org/10.1553/medievalworlds_no8_2018s66.
All papers of the peer-reviewed open access journal Medieval Worlds 8.2018 are available via http://dx.doi.org/10.1553/medievalworlds_no8_2018.
All papers of the peer-reviewed open access journal Medieval Worlds 8.2018 are available via http://dx.doi.org/10.1553/medievalworlds_no8_2018.
The authors catalogue all the chronological indications of three mauscripts of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A, D, and E, and analyze them as the central element of the inner organization of the annalistic text. The authors study such... more
Focusing on the early Chinese historiography, this article took the Duoshiwei(鐸氏微), which is believed an abridgment of ‘Chunqiu’ and made by Chu education official Duojiao(鐸椒), as a starting point. Although the book has no longer existed;... more
This article examines how Catholic moral theologians analyzed the constraints imposed by the rights of the dead to their good name on historical writing and research. The concern of Catholic moral theologians for persons’ rights to their... more
This paper poses the question of what possible desires expressed in Metahistory remain ungratified for Hayden White. In engaging the relationship between White’s later writings on figural realism, middle-voice writing and the practical... more
About 270 nuns wrote the history of their monastery, most of them unknown hitherto. The article deals with products and forms of historiography and its preservation. Most examples are taken from German and Belgium monasteries.
PowerPoint presentation introducing students to the differences/similarities of primary and secondary sources. Presented in a course I designed and taught for first-year students on college-level writing.
This paper addresses the fundamental question of the relationship between political philosophy and history; it does so through a study of the interpretations of Thucydides’ War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians developed by two... more
Published in: Valóság (2017) 5. sz. 91-95.
This thesis argues that previous research on the Journal of Kambujasuriya, Cambodia’s first Khmer-language journal that was first published in 1926 A.D., mainly focuses on the writings on Literature and Buddhism, whereas the historical... more
The full text of my PhD dissertation: https://dea.lib.unideb.hu/dea/handle/2437/248462
This is the second of three presentations I made in Nairobi during the workshop "History and Stories", held by the Italian Cultural Institute of Nairobi, November 20th-24th, 2017.
The study explores two aspects: the first is related to the written historical works in Aleppo and it vicinity during the first seven centuries of Islamic era until the period in which the historian Kamal Al-Din Ibn Al-Adim, the writer of... more
ВНИМАНИЕ: В названии статьи в файле опечатка - правильно: конец X - начало XII в. Annals in Easter-tables are a ‘primitive’ though important genre of medieval historical writing. The article contains a systematic overview of such annals... more
More than 1,800 teachers enrolled in the National Council for the Social Studies; first MOOC: Improving Historical Reading and Writing. There were an average of 13,000 weekly page views of course content and approximately 600... more
My first book deals with the historical writing of Ferenc Eckhart. Here one can download the cover and the contents of the volume. An influential historian of constitutional and economic history, Ferenc Eckhart contributed greatly to... more
Dieses Buch beleuchtet die räumlichen Kontexte, innerhalb derer Geschichte (zugänglich) gemacht wird, und thematisiert die Unsichtbarkeit derjenigen, die sie erarbeiten. Gezeigt werden die Schreibtische von 74 Historiker_innen aus ganz... more
I prepare high-quality illustrations of art objects or historical buildings for museums and academics to use in publications and related work. You can appreciate a small selection of my works at:... more
At both popular and academic levels, Malcolm has been the object of considerable myth-making: as nemesis of the ‘usurper’ Macbeth, as husband of St Margaret, often as ‘last Celtic king’, father of Scottish feudalism, and Anglophile... more
Communication au 4e Congrès du GIS « Moyen-Orient et Mondes musulmans » (online, 29 juin 2021)
This is the spanish translation of the Introduction to my anthology 'The Engaged Historian. Perspectives on the Intersection of Politics, Activism and the Historical Profession' (pp. 1-31). The english version has also been uploaded to... more
Book review of two volumes of Writing the Nation Series: Stefan Berger and Chris Lorenz (eds.): Nationalizing the Past. Historians as Nation Builders in Modern Europe. R.J.W. Evans and Guy P. Marchal (eds.): The Uses of the Middle Ages in... more
Since 19th century numerous scholars discuss whether history is science or art and raise doubts on its cognitive capacities. From that time the gap between “scientific” and “narrative” notion of history became even larger. Positivism,... more
An unavoidable task in historical writing is beginning and ending within particular time periods, dates, or moments. But while a published article denotes its end—the publication date—historical writing often does not admit of a... more
В статье прослеживается изменение соотношения письменных и устных источников в историческом нарративе на примере многочисленных работ И.М. Снегирева об Измайлове, вышедших с 1820-х до 1860-х гг. Доминирование письменных источников к... more
Történeti Tanulmányok XXV. ACTA UNIVERSITATIS DEBRECENIENSIS SERIES HISTORICA LXIX. Miru György – Novák Ádám – Bacsa Balázs Antal Szerk. Debrecen, 2017. 84-98.
This is a detailed review of a 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)” edited by Ildar H. Garipzanov... more