Part Ten X › Division IV IV › Section 10/41 10/41

Historiography and the Study of History

Subject Outline

AHistoriography: the types of historical writing
- 1Development of historiography: the history of historical writing
  - aIn the ancient world
    - iNear Eastern historiography
    - iiClassical historiography: Greek and Roman
    - iiiEarly Christian historiography
  - bIn the Middle Ages
    - iWestern Christian historiography
    - iiByzantine historiography
  - cFrom the Renaissance to the present
    - iRenaissance historiography
    - iiEarly modern historiography
    - iiiEnlightenment historiography: the 18th century
    - iv19th- and 20th-century historiography
  - dNon-Western historiographical traditions
    - iIslamic historiography
    - iiEast Asian historiography
- 2Types of historical writing: diverse ways of distinguishing or classifying kinds of historical writing by method or function
- 3Factors involved in the writing of history: the background of the author and his vantage point, method of work, and purpose
BModern historical investigation and research: sources and methods
- 1Sources for historical writing: material remains, written materials, folklore, place-names
- 2Auxiliary disciplines for ascertaining and interpreting the sources
  - aAnthropology
  - bArchaeology
  - cBibliography
  - dChronology
  - eDendrochronology
  - fDiplomatics
  - gEpigraphy
  - hGenealogy
  - iGeography
  - jHeraldry
  - kIconography and iconology
  - lLinguistics
  - mPaleography
  - nPsychoanalysis
  - oRadiometric dating
  - pSigillography
  - qTextual criticism
CPhilosophy of history: speculations about the historical process, philosophical analysis of the writing of histories
- 1Conceptions of the philosophy of history
- 2Speculative philosophy of history: diverse explanations of the pattern of historical events