HST 390: Terms

Primary and secondary sources
Published and manuscript sources
Chronological and topical formats
Linear and cyclical models of time
Chronology
Calendars: Julian, Gregorian
Herodotus
Thucydides
Polybius
Plutarch
Tacitus
Suetonius
Livy
Bede
Chronicle
Einhard
Lorenzo Valla
Niccolo Machiavelli
Beatus Rhenanus
John Knoz
Magdeburg Centuries
Cardinal Caesar Baronius
Jacques Bossuet
Voltaire
Montesquieu
Scottish Enlightenment
Empiricism
Social Science
David Hume
Adam Ferguson
Edward Gibbon
Romanticism
Nationalism
Johann Herder
Philosophy of History
Georg Hegel
Conflict in a dialectic: thesis, antithesis, synthesis
Johannes Voigt
Jules Michelet
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Macaulay
Leopold von Ranke
Zeitgeist
Historicism
Scientific History
Karl Marx
Determinism
Lucien Febvre
Marc Bloch
Annales School
Karl Popper
Micro-history
George Bancroft
Scientific School
Progressive History
Carl Becker
Charles Beard
Frederick Jackson Turner
Relativism
Dualism, monism, pluralism
Conflict, continuity
Consensus
Daniel Boorstin
Louis Hartz
Bernard Bailyn
Gary Nash
Mary Beth Norton
New Left
Social History
Revisionist
Feminist
Presentist
Deconstruction
Postmodernism
Postcolonialism

Greek

Herodotus
Thucydides
Polybius
Plutarch

Roman

Tacitus
Suetonius
Livy

Medieval

Bede
Chronicles
Einhard

Early Modern/Ren-Ref

Lorenzo Valla
Niccolo Machiavelli
Beatus Rhenanus
John Knoz
Magdeburg Centuries
Cardinal Caesar Baronius
Jacques Bossuet

18^th Century/Enlightenment

Voltaire
Montesquieu
Scottish Enlightenment
David Hume
Adam Ferguson
Edward Gibbon

19^th Century/Romanticism

Johann Herder
Georg Hegel
Johannes Voigt
Jules Michelet
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Macaulay
George Bancroft
Leopold von Ranke
Historicism
Karl Marx
Scientific History/Scientific School

1^st Half 20^th Century

Lucien Febvre
Marc Bloch
Annales School
Karl Popper
Progressive History
Carl Becker
Charles Beard
Frederick Jackson Turner

2^nd Half 20^th Century

Consensus
Daniel Boorstin
Louis Hartz
Bernard Bailyn
Gary Nash
Mary Beth Norton
New Left
Social History
Feminist
Postmodernism
Postcolonialism

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