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historiography

[ UK /hˌɪstɔːɹɪˈɒɡɹəfi/ ]
[ US /hɪˌstɔɹiˈɑɡɹəfi/ ]
NOUN
  1. the writing of history
  2. a body of historical literature

How To Use historiography In A Sentence

  • Koyre's idealist historiography of science reinforced the postpositivist tendency to assimilate the history of science to the history of ideas.
  • Much of the modern study of El Greco might be described as oscillating between two extremes - either a sharp focus on the attribution of his works, or a discursive handling of the historiography of the artist's personality and image.
  • Best devotes considerable energy to situating himself in the historiography of the sociology of deviance and social control.
  • The study of portraiture, for example, negotiates conceptions about the individual, identity, the self, and subjectivity - critical terms in Renaissance historiography.
  • Fair dealing remains an equally neglected area in the historiography of copyright law. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Recent historiography has argued that the British ecclesiastical policies of James I, (king of England (1603-25) and, as James VI, of Scotland (1567-1625)), sought "congruity" between the different churches in Scotland, England, and Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • These features have interesting parallels with accounting history and historiography.
  • Beyond that their work deals with the capacity of the video medium to manipulate reality: the video's ostensibly objective documentary quality brings a fictive element in historiography to the fore.
  • Le Sueur's historiography is a return to such totalizing historical narratives, and as such, situates even this late work much more within the framework of modernism than postmodernism.
  • Leonardo Bruni, and primarily in Florence, there developed a humanist historiography which went too far in its subservience to antiquity, breaking up the continuities of narrative and theme by its “annalistic” method, encouraging artifice by its restriction of vo - cabulary, and allowing rhetorical affections to carry it to a conventional kind of theatricality which pre - vented either the proper portrayal of men or the gen - uine interpretation of what had happened. HISTORIOGRAPHY
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