Sentence examples for annalists from inspiring English sources

Also after about 800, both European and Arabic annalists began to include in their chronicles accounts of eclipses and other remarkable celestial phenomena.

Pious tradition, born of the works of monkish annalists and court panegyrists, has exaggerated both the destructiveness of the first Mongol conquests and the strength of the resistance.

Like Christian annalists, he depended on the Hebrew Bible (as interpreted by Islam), though the world he inhabited was basically Egypt and Muslim Asia rather than Western Christendom.

Calvus was a son of the annalist Gaius Licinius Macer.

Mursilis was a particularly prolific annalist and edited his father's annals as well.

52 BCE 19 Fenestella, (born 52 bc died ad 19), Latin poet and annalist whose lost work, the Annales, apparently contained a valuable store of antiquarian matter as well as historical narrative of the final century of the Roman Republic.

Thus, annalist in this last sense is an unflattering term.

From this distinction arose the habit in the 19th century ad of using the term annalist to refer to Livy's sources, such as Valerius Antias and Claudius Quadrigarius, whom modern historians often despised as uncritical and even dishonest retailers of folktales and legends.

He was an essayist, aphorist, journalist, satirist, and analyst (and annalist) of what he once labelled, with characteristically arch capitalization, Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

In 2001, when the Swedish Academy awarded Sir Vidia Naipaul the Nobel prize in literature, it described him as the heir to Joseph Conrad: "The annalist of the destinies of empires in the moral sense: what they do to human beings… the memory of what others have forgotten, the history of the vanquished".

A trained annalist, his research for each novel has been rigorous.