Sentence examples for contemporary testimony from inspiring English sources

Historians have a duty to immerse themselves in contemporary testimony, as Behrman has clearly done.

Evocative contemporary testimony overwhelms the book's philosophical framework, while tantalizing quotations from philosophy and literature are often decontextualized, their connections to contemporary military realities abbreviated.

Francis uses contemporary testimony to bring us the terror of Hell and the fear of sin that drove converts to find hope in Shaker salvation.

By contrast, academic Shakespeareans and literary historians rely mainly on direct documentary evidence in the form of title page attributions and government records such as the Stationers' Register and the Accounts of the Revels Office and contemporary testimony from poets, historians, and those players and playwrights who worked with him, as well as modern stylometric studies.

Soon after Muhammad's death, in 632, the record of what God had said to him was collected in the Koran, and his contemporaries' testimonies about his life were gathered in the Hadith.

It includes "photographs, letters, documents and ephemera, and contemporary oral testimonies".

Marked by sonorific intricacies and incantatory rhythms, his poems are imbued with a strong historical and cultural consciousness that bears testimony to contemporary reality.

Yet the fund of knowledge would be woefully skeletal and inaccurate without the explicit testimony of contemporary records from Egypt itself.

But promoters of de Vere's cause have a lot of evidence to explain away, including testimony of contemporary writers, court records and much else that confirms that Shakespeare wrote the works attributed to him.

The other prime source of Johnson's fame, his reputation as a conversationalist of epic genius, rests on the detailed testimony of contemporary memorialists including Burney, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Sir John Hawkins.

James Shapiro, a professor of English at Columbia, wrote in an Op-Ed for The New York Times that there is "testimony of contemporary writers, court records and much else that confirms that Shakespeare wrote the works attributed to him".