28 Facts About Historiography

Historiography'storiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject.

Historiography'storiographyrodotus attempted to distinguish between more and less reliable accounts, and personally conducted research by travelling extensively, giving written accounts of various Mediterranean cultures.

Historiography'storiography was the first to distinguish between cause and immediate origins of an event, while his successor Xenophon introduced autobiographical elements and character studies in his Anabasis.

Historiography's work superseded the older style of the Spring and Autumn Annals, compiled in the 5th century BC, the Bamboo Annals and other court and dynastic annals that recorded history in a chronological form that abstained from analysis.

Historiography'storiography explored the lives and deeds of commoners, both contemporary and those of previous eras.

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Historiography's work was forgotten until it was rediscovered in the late 19th century.

Historiography'storiography broke from the tradition of narrating diplomatic and military events, and emphasized customs, social history and achievements in the arts and sciences.

Historiography'storiography was the first scholar to make a serious attempt to write the history of the world, eliminating theological frameworks, and emphasizing economics, culture and political history.

Historiography'storiography helped free historiography from antiquarianism, Eurocentrism, religious intolerance and a concentration on great men, diplomacy, and warfare.

Historiography'storiography argued that the quest for liberty was the highest standard for judging the past, and concluded that after considerable fluctuation, England at the time of his writing had achieved "the most entire system of liberty, that was ever known amongst mankind".

Historiography'storiography emphasised the role of forces of the spirit in history and thought that chaotic events demanded what he called 'heroes' to take control over the competing forces erupting within society.

Historiography'storiography considered the dynamic forces of history as being the hopes and aspirations of people that took the form of ideas, and were often ossified into ideologies.

Historiography'storiography pioneered the idea of "the milieu" as an active historical force which amalgamated geographical, psychological, and social factors.

Historiography'storical writing for him was a search for general laws.

Historiography'storiography argued that the theory of the unity and continuity of history should not remove distinctions between ancient and modern history.

Historiography'storiography was a good palaeographer, and excelled in textual criticism, in examination of authorship, and other such matters, while his vast erudition and retentive memory made him second to none in interpretation and exposition.

Historiography's writings are famous for their ringing prose and for their confident, sometimes dogmatic, emphasis on a progressive model of British history, according to which the country threw off superstition, autocracy and confusion to create a balanced constitution and a forward-looking culture combined with freedom of belief and expression.

Historiography'storiography published the first volumes of his most famous work of history, The Historiography'story of England from the Accession of James II, in 1848.

Historiography'storiography was profoundly interested in the issue of the enclosure of land in the English countryside in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and in Max Weber's thesis on the connection between the appearance of Protestantism and the rise of capitalism.

Historiography's books include Puritanism and Revolution, Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution, The Century of Revolution, AntiChrist in 17th-century England, The World Turned Upside Down and many others.

Historiography'storiography argued that class was not a structure, but a relationship that changed over time.

Historiography'storiography opened the gates for a generation of labor historians, such as David Montgomery and Historiography'storiographyrbert Gutman, who made similar studies of the American working classes.

Historiography'storiography presented a middle-of-the-road position between the empirical or view of history and R G Collingwood's idealism, and rejected the empirical view of the historian's work being an accretion of "facts" that they have at their disposal as nonsense.

Historiography'storiography took a hostile view of those historians who stress the workings of chance and contingency in the workings of history.

Historiography'storiography compared 26 independent civilizations and argued that they displayed striking parallels in their origin, growth, and decay.

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Historiography'storiography proposed a universal model to each of these civilizations, detailing the stages through which they all pass: genesis, growth, time of troubles, universal state, and disintegration.

Historiography'storians have played a central role in shaping the memories of the past as their work is diffused through popular history books and school textbooks.

Historiography'storians committed to a social science approach have criticized the narrowness of narrative and its preference for anecdote over analysis, and its use of clever examples rather than statistically verified empirical regularities.