historiography.
Medieval history was primarily descriptive, and characteristically took the form of a detailed chronicle. The advent of humanism in the fifteenth century created a new kind of historical writing, one characterized by a greater attention to motives and causes, by a conviction that the study of history had direct applications to governance and military science, and (under the influence of classical historians such as ... ...
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