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Historical method is the collection of techniques and guidelines that historians use to research and write histories of the past. Secondary sources, primary sources and material evidence such as that derived from archaeology may all be drawn on, and the historian's skill lies in identifying these sources, evaluating their relative authority, and combining their testimony appropriately in order ...
The Allegory On the Writing of History shows Truth (top) watching the historian write history, while advised by Wisdom (Jacob de Wit,1754). Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension, the term historiography is any body of historical work on a particular subject.
Auxiliary sciences of history include, but are not limited to: Archeology – study of ancient and historic sites and artifacts; Chronology – study of the sequence of past events; Cliometrics – systematic application of economic theory, econometric techniques, and other formal or mathematical methods to the study of history
Jerzy Topolski (20 September 1928 – 21 December 1998) was a Polish historian specializing in economic history, history of material culture, the early modern period, and theory and methodology of history.
Elton's analysis of the historical method is one that is founded upon certain clear and fundamental principles and ideas that he thought lay behind history on the one hand and the construction of narrative by the historian on the other. Primarily this included the notion that the historian reconstructed events and phenomena that had actually ...
The historical method comprises the techniques and guidelines by which historians research primary sources and other evidence, and then write history.The question of the nature, and indeed the possibility, of sound historical method is raised in the philosophy of history, as a question of epistemology.
A New Kind of History From the Writings of Lucien Febvre, (1973) Duby, Georges. History Continues, (1991, translated 1994) Febvre, Lucien. A New Kind of History: From the Writings of Lucien Febvre ed. by Peter Burke (1973) translated articles from Annales; Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel. The Mind and Method of the Historian (1981) Le Roy Ladurie ...
2. comparative history as parallel demonstration of theory – the emphasis is on identifying similarities across relevant cases; 3. comparative history as contrast of contexts – the emphasis is on the differences between cases and the uniqueness of each case. Scholars that use this approach tends to be wary of drawing broad generalizations.