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historical criticism

American  
[hi-staw-ri-kuhl kri-tuh-si-zuhm] / hɪˈstɔ rɪ kəl ˈkrɪ təˌsɪ zəm /

noun

  1. a way of studying texts that considers how they were influenced by the time and place they were written in. See also higher criticism.


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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

The trend of modern historical criticism in this, as in so many other romantic stories from our annals, is to deny its genuineness altogether.

From Ecclesiastical Curiosities by Various

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