Historiography Definition

hĭ-stôrē-ŏgrə-fē
noun
The writing of history.
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History; specif., the study of the techniques of historical research and historical writing, the methods of major historians, etc.

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A body of historical writing.
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Other Word Forms of Historiography

Noun

Singular:
historiography
Plural:
historiographies

Origin of Historiography

  • French historiographie from Old French from Greek historiographiā historiā history history -graphiā -graphy

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • history +‎ -ography

    From Wiktionary

Historiography Sentence Examples

  • A second type of Arabian historiography is that in which an author combines the different traditions about one occurrence into one continuous narrative, but prefixes a statement as to the lines of authorities used and states which of them he mainly follows.

  • But, having already written the Discorsi and the Principe, he carried with him to this new task of historiography the habit of mind proper to political philosophy.

  • He made use of European sources, and with him Arabic historiography may be said to cease, though he had some unimportant successors.

  • This masterpiece of historiography was composed in 1225 or 1226 by a professional poet of talent at the request of William, son of the marshal.

  • Christianity from the first had forced thinking men to reconstruct their philosophy of history, but it was only after the Church's triumph that its point of view became dominant in historiography.

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Words Starting With

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