historiography
(hɪstɔərɪˈɒgrəfɪ)
[ad. Gr. ἱστοριογραϕία, f. ἱστορία history + -γραϕία writing.]
The writing of history; written history.
| 1569 J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 14 b, Many, that impudently and shamefully avaunt themselves to profess Historiographie. 1597 Breton Wit's Trenchmour Wks. (1879) 13 (D.) Haue you not beene a little red in historiographie. 1797 Monthly Mag. III. 269 An important work..beginning with the historiography of the first founders of the school of Florence. 1858 J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. (1873) III. iv. xi. 419 Monastic historiography..proceeded from the motive of religious duty. |