historiography
Americannoun
plural
historiographies-
the body of literature dealing with historical matters; histories collectively.
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the body of techniques, theories, and principles of historical research and presentation; methods of historical scholarship.
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the narrative presentation of history based on a critical examination, evaluation, and selection of material from primary and secondary sources and subject to scholarly criteria.
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an official history.
medieval historiographies.
noun
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the writing of history
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the study of the development of historical method, historical research, and writing
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any body of historical literature
Other Word Forms
- historiographic adjective
- historiographical adjective
- historiographically adverb
Etymology
Origin of historiography
1560–70; < Middle French historiographie < Greek historiographía. See history, -o-, -graphy
Example Sentences
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Good research requires both types of sources and some attention to historiography, which is the study of how other historians have already interpreted and written about the past.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
The Ukrainian philosopher Volodymyr Yermolenko is quoted expanding on the idea, arguing that “a leitmotif of Ukrainian literature, historiography, and philosophy is opposition to the centralized idea of state and universe.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2022
For them, the culture war of the 1990s was clearly connected to the upheaval in American historiography.
From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2021
Based on my own dissertation work on the topic, it’s clear that the author is deeply conversant in the historiography of English witchcraft as popularized by historians such as Keith Thomas and Lyndal Roper.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2021
Chapters 2, 15, 16 and 17 deal with historiography, methodology and philosophy.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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