The Companion to Historiography is an original analysis of the moods and trends in historical writing throughout its phases of development and explores the assumptions and procedures that have formed the creation of historical perspectives. Contributed by a distinguished panel of academics, each essay conveys in direct, jargon-free language a genuinely international, wide-angled view of the ideas, traditions and institutions that lie behind the contemporary urgency of world history.

Pt. I. Beginnings - East and West

Introduction
1. The Evolution of Two Asian Historiographical Traditions
2. Historiography and Ancient Greek Self-definition
3. Re-reading the Roman Historians
4. The Religion of Rome from Monarchy to Principate
5. Late Antiquity and the Early Medieval West
6. Modernizing the Historiography of Rural Labour: An Unwritten Agenda

Pt. II. The Medieval World

Introduction: Regarding Medievalists: Contexts and Approaches
7. The Historiography of the Medieval State
8. Saladin and the Third Crusade: A Case Study in Historiography and the Historical Novel
9. Family, Gender and Sexuality in the Middle Ages
10. The Medieval Nobility in Twentieth-Century Historiography
11. Medieval Military Historiography
12 Popular Religion in the Central and Later Middle Ages

Pt. III. Early Modern Historiography

Introduction Survey: From the Renaissance to the Eighteenth Century
13. The Idea of Early Modern History
14. The Scientific Revolution
15. The Writing of Early Modern European Intellectual History, 1945-1995
16. The English Reformation, 1945-1995
17. Popular Culture in the Early Modern West
18. Revisionism in Britain

Pt. IV. Reflecting on the Modern Age

Introduction: Approaches to Modernity: Western Historiography since the Enlightenment
19. The Historiography of the French Revolution
20. The Soviet Revolution
21. The Historiography of National Socialism
22. Modern Italy - Changing Historical Perspective since 1945
23. The Critique of Orientalism
24. The Historiography of Modern China
25. The English-Language Historiography of Modern Japan
26. Modern Indian Historiography
27. History in Africa
28. Modern American Historiography
29. Latin America

Pt. V. Contexts for the Writing of History

30. Philosophy and Historiography
31. History and Anthropology
32. Archaeology and Historiography
33. The History of Western Art History
34. The Historical Narrative
35. The Annales Experiment
36. Marxist Historiography
37. Women, Gender and the Fin de Siecle
38. World History
39. Archives, the Historian and the Future
Index