The Historian and the Church

DEREK BEALES AND GEOFFREY BEST, eds. History, Society and the Churches: Essays in Honour of Owen Chadwick. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. x, 335. $49.50 (US).     

The Oral Historian as Memorist

This paper explores some issues in relation to oral historyand memory that emerge in Alessandro Portelli's The Order HasBeen Carried Out. I examine the contemporary role of the oralhistorian, the relationship between the present and the pastin memory work, and make some comments about how we might articulatethe field of oral history with memory studies more closely forthe enrichment of both.     

An Historian in the Amazon

However private they may seem, emotions depend for their meanings on the communities in which they are expressed. But if emotions are shaped by and for their communities, how can we account for emotional change? After briefly surveying how historians have (1) defined the communities in which emotions have been expressed and (2) explained how and why emotions have changed, this article turns to the community of the Waorani of Amazonian Ecuador. It explores whether anthropological explanations of emotional change in that “test case” may help the historian. The answer is not entirely positive. The article concludes with some thoughts about what sorts of collaborations between historians and anthropologists might be more productive for emotions studies.     

杰里·H．本特利教授学术报告纪要

2004年10月19日,美国夏威夷大学教授、《世界历史杂志》主编、美国世界史协会会长 杰里·H.本特利(Jerry H.Bentley)在中国社会科学院世界历史研究所作了题为"世界历史 的昨天、今天和明天"的学术报告。本特利教授以宏观的理论视野,勾勒出在漫长的时间跨 度中世界历史研究的发展脉络及其研究范式的转变。 本特利教授认为,世界历史在最早的历史著作中即已出现。在古代世界,西方与东方的 历史学家在立足本民族历史研究的同时,开始将眼光投向更为广阔的外部世界,注重不同民 族与地区之间的联系。中世纪的编年史家则常常以《圣经》中的创世说和不同民族的起源作     

The Implications of Analytic Philosophy of History for the Practicing Historian

An article by John O'Hagan and Elish Kelly in 2005 (see Historical Methods 38:118-25) discussed collecting information on visual artists that would allow a broad historical ranking based on "prominence." O'Hagan and Kelly collected these data to examine prominent artists' birth locations, work locations, and their consequential patterns of labor movement during several long periods. In this article, the authors examine artists' migration for four periods (based on their date of birth): Renaissance Italy, Europe in the first half of the nineteenth century, and the Western world in general for the periods 1850-99 and 1900-49. The data show that important artists clustered in all periods at a remarkably high level. Florence and Rome dominated in Renaissance Italy, with significant clustering because of the artists' birthplaces and domestic migration. Paris and London witnessed a marked clustering of artists born in the first half of the nineteenth century, with Paris continuing to dominate among artists born in the second half of the nineteenth century. Artists born in the first half of the twentieth century clustered in New York City, with all prominent American artists clustering there.     

谈《史记》的篇章排列顺序

《史记》篇章编次较灵活,不似《汉书》严整,有些地方乍一看似乎还很“混乱”。因此,历代学多有不解。司马贞在其《索隐》里就曾批评太史公篇章编次不当,认为《司马相如传》不宜在《西南夷》下,《大宛传》不宜在《酷吏》、《游侠》间。金人王若虚继之说：“凡诸夷狄,当以类相附,则《匈奴》亦岂得在《李广》、《卫青》之间乎?……     

《史记》电子资源述评

目前所见的比较流行的电子版文献如《四库全书》、《汉籍全文检索系统》、《国学宝典》、《二十五史多媒体全文检索系统》、“汉籍电子文献”中的《史记》有着各自的功能和特点,一些比较常用的可在internet上进行《史记》在线阅读或下载的网站和软件,存在一定的问题,我们可进行多方面努力克服这些缺陷,古籍资源的电子化将有更大的发展空间。