HIS 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Adam Shortt, Saint Lawrence River, Annales School
31 Jan 2018
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How did history become a global profession. Wrote a manuscript history"s = first known historical publication. Babylonians = on stone tables, and other people have chronicled the past. What was unique was the rules he set out for he study. Explain the causes and outcomes of wars. Going out with a research question and finding evidence. Travel widely, interviewed those of both sides of the story. Confronting sources to get to the truth, triangulate. Looking for human causes of events: puts in less of the gods than h. Tenants of history that h and t used are put aside until the renaissance. History exists to support the trends of the bible. History is not critical and h and t made it. History is mainly about confirming the powerful people genealogies. In antiquity there were libraries in the homes of the rich. Literature is now centered around the church and consumed usually just for religion.
