HIST-1106EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Waldensians, Tradition History, Spanish Civil War
13 Nov 2020
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Ch1: historiography: the study of the writing of history. General level: a study of different ground rules and practices of writing history since the age of herodotus. Local level of historians: writings about a particular subject. Spanish civil war: use studying historiography to think about particular ways in which the relevant specialist historians have conceptualised, researched and written about the subject at hand. And we should apply the same critical procedures for reading historians" work that we apply to the raw data of historical sources. Studying historiography should not be confused by using certain historians" books as transparent mediums to access the past. You should also not name drop" historians or strip out quotations from their work: also historiography is sometimes used to describe texts which address philosophical issues that apply to the writing of history. Human society has probably always had a historical consciousness of some form. " telling stories about the past (orally and written).
