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historiographical

historiographical

1 9.9
The study of how people write about the past
  • adjective
  • /ˌhɪstəriəˈɡræfɪkəl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : historiográfico
  • One is tempted to speak of the birth of the historiographical understanding of the Reformation out of the spirit of crisis.
  • historiographical tradition
  • historiographical essay
  • historiographical debate

Examples

  • Working in Germany exposed Burleigh to a very different historiographical tradition, one that was to transform his working methods.

    Academic text (2010)
  • As far as the historiographical mood is concerned, Austin may have been fortunate in his timing.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Here, art history functions as a model for historiographical and political reform.

    Academic text (2011)
  • In our first article, Sarah H. Hill begins to fill this historiographical void.

    Academic text (2011)
  • We can draw two historiographical lessons from the latest crisis of American liberalism.

    Academic text (1997)
  • If one shares this historiographical thesis, two approaches are available for interpreting the preparatory notes for the second lecture:

    Academic text (2017)
  • Quite the contrary, the shifts and articulation between resistance formations pose a difficult historiographical and theoretical problem.

    Academic text (1994)
  • First, the Nicholses challenge the dominant historical and historiographical narratives about Spiritualism and Catholicism in the nineteenth century.

    Academic text (2018)
  • Perez de Hita wrote within this historiographical paradigm, applying traditional methodology that his peers considered both acceptable and commendable.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Historiographical methods are essential for understanding how historiographical interpret events.

Synonyms

historiographic
vshistoriographical
  • Specialized
8.9

About how people write and study the past

has identical meaning but is an alternative adjective form

How Scholarly

historiographical
  • Specialized
1 9.9
historical
400 3.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

historiographical = historiographic (semi-transparent) = historio + graph + ic + al

Adding -al to historiographic is a regular adjectival derivation.

Etymology

Historiographical comes from history and the part -graphical, which comes from a word meaning 'to write' or 'to record'. So historiographical describes the ways people write about, study, and explain history.