History
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...The diverse sources of history include books, newspapers...in past events. Most histories are concerned with causality...was restricted to the church, the chroniclers were...was Bedes Ecclesiastical History, an early model in a...gave rise to the critical history of William of Tyre . Contact...and al-Masudi wrote histories of great scope, often...version of sociological history to account for the rise...civilizations. In 12th-century Europe secular history...Comines in successive centuries. Renaissance Historiography...the development, in the 19th cent., of critical objective...