Sentence examples for historical method from inspiring English sources

We are witness to the birth pangs of historical method.

The Histories serve us as the well-spring of historical wisdom as well as of historical method.

But to go back a century raises additional problems of historical method.

This work embodied the new historical method applied to the history of Rome.

Such a grisly depiction of the past seems all of a piece with John Guy's historical method.

[30] Carlo Ginzburg writes about this in "Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method," Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

If in historical method he fell short of modern standards, he had the literary virtues of a historian.

After the reestablishment of the Society of Jesus in Belgium, the work was begun again in 1837, and activities were brought more into line with the progress of historical methods.

Instead of the allegorical interpretation employed by the rival exegetical School of Alexandria, Egypt, Theodore used scientific, critical, philological, and historical methods that anticipated modern scholarship.

It is difficult to make an argument about American history when you write a novelistic account that makes grand claims about the American past, but then neither defends them by accountable historical methods nor disowns them as mere fiction.

It has resulted in judicial excoriation and a lengthy, penetrating analysis of his historical methods written for the court by Richard Evans, professor of modern history at the University of Cambridge and author of "In Defense of History".