historiographical
- adjective
- /ˌhɪstəriəˈɡræfɪkəl/
- Specialized
- 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
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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
About how people write and study the past
How Scholarly
- Specialized
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.