Annals
Annals (
Scope
The nature of the distinction between annals and history is a subject based on divisions established by the ancient Romans.[1] Verrius Flaccus, quoted by Aulus Gellius,[3] stated that the etymology of history (from Greek ιστορειν, historein, equated with Latin inspicere, "to inquire in person") properly restricts it to primary sources such as Thucydides's which have come from the author's own observations, while annals record the events of earlier times arranged according to years.[1] White distinguishes annals from chronicles, which organize their events by topics such as the reigns of kings,[4] and from histories, which aim to present and conclude a narrative implying the moral importance of the events recorded.[5][6][4] Generally speaking, annalists record events drily, leaving the entries unexplained and equally weighted.[5]
History
Ancient
The chief sources of information in regard to the annals of ancient
Medieval
Among the early Christians, it was common to establish the date of
Introduced by
Modern
In modern literature, the term "annals" is similarly loosely applied to works which more or less strictly adhere to the order of years,[9] both in western contexts (English Annual Registers, French Annuaires de la Revue, German Jahrbücher) and to equivalent styles in other cultures (such as the Chinese Spring and Autumn Annals).
It is also applied to various
See also
- Works
- Chinese annals
- The Annals of Tabari (10th century Tabaristan Abbasid Caliphate)
- The German Annals (Annales Alamannici)
- Annals of Joseon Dynastyin Korea
- The Malay Annals (Sejarah Melayu)
- Grotius's Annales et Historia de Rebus Belgicis (1557)
- Bishop Ussher's Annals of the Old Testament
- Cardinal Baronius's Annales Ecclesiastici(12 vols, 1788–1793)
- Hailes's Annals of Scotland from the Accession of Malcolm III to the Accession of the House of Stuart
- Chambers's Domestic Annals of Scotland
- The annals of the emperors of Japan
- Periodicals
- The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
- The Annals of Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré
- The Annals of Clinical Biochemistry
- The Annals of Family Medicine
- The IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
- The Annals of Human Genetics
- The Annals of Internal Medicine
- The Annals of Mathematics
- The Annals of Probability and Annals of Statistics
- The Annals of the Faculty of Law in Belgrade
- The Annals of Improbable Research, a parody of other peer-reviewed journals
Notes
- Latin: per singulos dies.[8]
Additional notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j EB (1878).
- ^ a b OED (1884).
- ^ Gellius (177).
- ^ a b White (1987), p. 16.
- ^ a b White (1987), p. 7.
- ^ White (1987), p. 11.
- ^ Cicero, De Oratore, ii.12.52.
- ^ Servius, ad Aen. i.373.
- ^ a b c d e f EB (1911).
- ^ Schwartz (1905), pp. 104 ff.
- ^ Gibson (1903), p. 100.
- Eusebius, Hist. Eccl., 7.
- ^ Flechner (2013), pp. 422 ff.
References
- Baynes, T. S., ed. (1878), , Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 2 (9th ed.), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, pp. 60–61
- "annals, n.", Oxford English Dictionary, Vol. I, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1888 [First added 1884], p. 338.
- Flechner, Roy (2013), "The Chronicle of Ireland: Then and Now", Early Medieval Europe, 21 (4): 422–54, S2CID 162982334
- Gellius, Aulus (177), Noctes Atticae, v.18
- Gibson, Margaret Dunlop (1903), The Didascalia Apostolorum in Syriac, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Schwartz, E. (1905), Christliche und jüdische Ostertafeln [Christian and Jewish Easter Tables], Berlin
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link). (in German) - White, Hayden V. (1987), The Content of Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Attribution:
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bémont, Charles (1911), "Annals", in Chisholm, Hugh (ed.), Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 2 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 61
External links
- . The American Cyclopædia. 1879.
