historical criticism
Americannoun
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Not incidentally does Bate admire such elegant and magisterial examples of historical criticism as E.R.
From Washington Post ● May 22, 2019
Shaken at first by changes the council was recommending, Mr. Shields came to embrace them, especially the use of modern historical criticism in interpreting Scripture.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2017
"Find another monarch who has been trashed like Richard has been," she explained of the huge interest, sternly rejecting any historical criticism put to her.
From Reuters ● Feb. 8, 2013
A look through the literature of “Tintinology” turns up psychoanalytical exposition, semiotic analysis, historical criticism, and more—all based on the idea that there’s more to Hergé’s images and bubbled prose than meets the eye.
From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2011
Morgan was the first to submit to historical criticism the reports of the Spaniards who first misapprehended and exaggerated, and later on consciously misrepresented the functions of this office.
From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels
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