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historiography

historiography

2 9.9
The study of how people find out and write about the past
  • noun
  • /ˌhɪstəˈriˌɑɡrəfi/
  • Specialized
translation icon : historiografía
  • The course on historiography focused on the techniques that historians use to analyze past narratives.
  • American historiography
  • immigration historiography
  • social historiography

Parmall's research ranges across ethics, aesthetics, theology, historiography and literary criticism.

Examples

  • The power of national historiography to shape historical practice remains impressive.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The study of historiography allows us to understand how history has been interpreted differently over time.

  • No, his history and historiography are two connected but different things.

  • To compare itself to the American case has had several functions in French historiography.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Beyond this, we must ask what history means for these writers and how it relates to historiography.

    Academic text (1991)
  • While these Spanish American works, unlike their European equivalents, have become a central concern in recent historiography, earlier historians largely neglected them.

    Academic text (2012)
  • First of all, one of the central elements of historiography turns upon its implicit hypothesis of temporal flow.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Most importantly, Dvorak's historiography of artistic difference emphasized a complex relationship between nationalism and art.

    Academic text (1992)
  • A sense of historical discontinuity informs much early sixteenth-century historiography.

    Academic text (2011)
  • In her thesis, she discussed the methodologies employed in historiography to ensure accuracy in historical writing.

How Scholarly

historiography
  • Specialized
2 9.9
history
  • Specialized
1.2
account
466 3.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

historiography = history (semi-transparent) = history + graphy

The word clearly contains the base 'history' and the productive suffix '-graphy', but the specialized meaning 'study or writing of history' is not fully predictable for a B1 learner.

Etymology

Historiography comes from history, meaning 'the story of the past', and the ending -graphy, meaning 'writing'. So historiography is the study of how historians write and think about the past.