Mamluk Historiography Revisited – Narratological Perspectives

239 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This volume discusses Mamluk historical texts with an emphasis on literary/stylistic analysis, basically ignoring issues of ‘factuality’ versus ‘fictivity’. None of the authors set out to write ‘fiction’; nor would their audience have received their accounts as such. The events depicted were a matter of historical record; but their meaning was geared both to contemporary and to general concerns. The fact of telling them is part and parcel of the historian’s task; the means of telling them has to do with the historian’s choice of style; and style is all-important in conveying meaning. Were these accounts not considered ‘true’, the purpose behind their telling and the meaning they convey, would, arguably, be lost; but were they not told in the most effective manner, their meaning might not be clearly grasped.

• Reihe: Mamluk Studies
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Theorie und Methoden Geschichtsschreibung, Historiographie
• ISBN: 9783847107224
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 13.08.2018
• Größe: 23.7 x 16 cm
• Verlag: V&R unipress
• Herausgegeben von: Stephan Conermann
• Beiträge von: Yehoshua Frenkel, Li Guo, Mohammed Gharaibeh, Amalia Levanoni, Amir Mazor, Linda Northrup, Irmeli Perho, Carl F. Petry, Boaz Shoshan, Jo Van Steenbergen, Torsten Wollina, Stephan Conermann