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Documenti di Cultura
Greek Word: Historia- learning by inquiry From the incomplete evidence, historians restore the
Aristotle- systematic accounting of a set of natural past thru inferring it with the point of view and
phenomena in a chronological arrangement experiences of humans living in that time.
History as actuality
The whole history of the past
History as recorded
How the historian recorded the past
Only a tiny part of the whole phenomenon
Isographies
Dictionaries of biography giving examples of handwriting
Paleography
Study of ancient writing systems and the deciphering and
dating of historical manuscripts.
Diplomatics
Deals with the process of determining whether a
document is authentic or a forgery through a detailed
examination of internal and external characteristics.
Seals
Subject of study by sigillographers
Anachronistic styles
Can be detected by specialists in contemporary writing
It can detect unhistoric spelling and grammar
Historical method
The process of critically examining the records and
survivals of the past
Skills in interpretation of facts and critical analysis of
historical narrative or accounts is needed
Content Analysis
Systematic evaluation of the primary source, that in
process, we could develop and present an argument
based on our understanding of the evidences